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Table Lamps For Sale
Style: Victorian
Style: Industrial
Late 19th Century Pallme Konig Austrian Pink Table Lamps - a Pair
By Pallme König
Located in Canton, MA
Late 19th Century Austrian pink table lamps - a pair. These lamps are made of a pink glass in a vase form. They are decorated with purple painted flowers...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Late Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Art Glass
Victorian Porcelain Lamp
Located in Montreal, QC
Victorian Duplex oil lamp with porcelain hand-painted reservoir on brass base; later adapted to electricity.
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain, Parchment Paper
Antique Pair Japanese Chinese Imari Porcelain Ormolu Table Lamps Blue Red Gilt
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning Pair Traditional Japanese Imari Bulbous Form Porcelain Vases of medium to large proportions, now converted to a pair of electric Table Lamps, complete with ormolu stepped ci...
Category
19th Century Chinese Late Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Grey Industrial Table Lamp from Elektrosvit, 1970s
By Elektrosvit
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Industrial table lamp made by Elektrosvit in former Czechoslovakia during the 1970s. It features an iron base, an iron arm with three adjustable joints and aluminium shade with origi...
Category
1970s Czech Industrial Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum, Iron
Outstanding Antique Victorian Brass Corinthian Column Oil Lamp
Located in Suffolk, GB
Outstanding antique Victorian brass Corinthian column oil lamp having a very pleasing stepped square base and reeded column. An attractive o...
Category
1860s English Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Industrial Gooseneck Table Lamp from Instala Děčín, 1960s
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Industrial flexible gooseneck table lamp with clamp base made by Instala Decín in former Czechoslovakia during the 1960s. Good vintage condition. The socket requires standard E 27 / ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Iron
Vintage Black Enamel Table Photo Lamp, 1950s
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Vintage Industrial adjustable table lamp from former Czechoslovakia made during the 1950s. Was used in photo studios. It features a black enamel shade with white enamel interior an i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Enamel, Iron
20th Century French Industrial Style Pair of Large Vintage Metal Table Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A vintage Industrial Style French pair of large table lamps made of hand crafted metal, in good condition. The vase shaped lights are composed with a new white round shade, enhanced ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Amber Glass Electrified Gone with The Wind Lamp
Located in Canton, MA
Gone with the wind lamp with amber glass, and a dragon design.
Material: Metal,Glass
Style: Traditional, Victorian
Place of Origin: United S...
Category
Late 19th Century American Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Glass
Wihelm Lauritzen DSB lamp
Located in København K, DK
VILHELM LAURITZEN - VARIOUS
DESIGNER: Vilhelm Lauritzen
MANUFACTURER: Louis Poulsen
MATERIALS: Metal
CONDITION: Good restored condition
DIMENSIONS: W. 7 cm. H. 19 cm. D. 43 cm.
REM...
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Mid-19th Century Danish Industrial Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Splendid Elkington & Co. Roman Foot Sterling silver oil lamp, England 1840s
Located in Milan, IT
Splendid Elkington & Co. Roman Foot Sterling silver oil lamp, England 1840s
Category
1840s English High Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage Brown Bakelite Gooseneck Table Lamp, 1960s
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Brown industrial table lamp made by Elektroinstala Děčín in former Czechoslovakia during the 1960s. It features a bakelite shade and base and iron gooseneck.The original socket requi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Iron
Adjustable 'Task' Industrial Machinists Table Lamp with Cast Iron Base
Located in Sharon, CT
Our vintage machinist's 'Task' lamp has been recently rewired. A beautiful oval cast iron base helps make this a very practical and useful table lamp...
Category
Early 20th Century American Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Iron
French Sèvres Porcelain Watteau Scene Ormolu Cobalt Blue Table Lamp Bronze Satyr
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning French Sevres Soft Paste Signed Porcelain and Ormolu with Twin Handles modelled as a Satyre, Electric Table Lamp of traditional bulbous form and of outstanding quality, and ...
Category
19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Large Grey Industrial Workshop Table Lamp, 1960s
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Large industrial table lamp with three adjustable joints made in former Czechoslovalia during the 1960s.It features a grey iron base ,arm and lampshade. The porcelain socket requires...
Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Iron
Quality Antique Victorian Oil Lamp
Located in Suffolk, GB
Quality antique Victorian oil lamp having the original etched glass shade and glass chimney, double brass burners, hand painted glass font and rais...
Category
19th Century European Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Antique Victorian Reeded Column Brass Oil Lamp
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique Victorian reeded column brass oil lamp having a pretty tulip shaped white and pink etched glass shade with a single burner stood on a square ste...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
B.A.R.E Series, 'Small Circular' Copper Table Lamp by Lucas Muñoz Muñoz
Located in Madrid, ES
B.A.R.E 'Small Circular' Table Lamp is a piece that forms part of the series Brick, Appliances, Rods and Electricity (B.A.R.E). This collection of lamps is produced with bricks or ti...
Category
2010s Spanish Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Steel
Bradley and Hubbard Brass and Cast Iron Table Lamp
Located in Canton, MA
Brass and Cast Iron Converted Oil Lamp. Two Light Cluster. Completely rewired and restored. 20″ high without shade.
Dimensions:
Height: 20
Width (Diameter): 9
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Late Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Iron, Brass
English Victorian Glass Porcelain Hand-Painted Roses Statement Brass Lamp
Located in Lomita, CA
Hand-painted roses on porcelain and a milk glass lampshade are the focal points for this most romantic of English lamps that rests on a tall circular brass foot with a beautiful pati...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal, Brass
Articulating Gooseneck Table Lamp with Cast Iron Base c.1930
Located in San Francisco, CA
About
An antique gooseneck task lamp with aluminum shade, articulating arm and cast iron base. The light bends and adjusts on the arm.
Creator: M. Brandt and Sons...
Category
Early 20th Century Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum, Iron
Black 1930s Bauhaus or Industrial Style Table or Desk Lamp
Located in Vienna, AT
This charming black lacquer and chrome Bauhaus industrial desk or Table lamp was produced during the 1930s probably in former Czech Republic. It features a black aluminum shade, iron...
Category
1930s Czech Industrial Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum, Chrome, Metal
Pair of Antique Glass & Gilt Metal Table Lamps
Located in London, GB
An exquisite pair of antique glass & gilt metal table lamps in stunning green glass. They were made in England, they date from around the 1890-1900 period.
The quality is outstandin...
Category
1890s British Late Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Vintage Orange East German Table Lamp from AKA Leuchten, 1970s
Located in Kojetice, CZ
This table lamp was produced by AKA Leuchten in former DDR ( East Germany) during the 1970s. It features an aluminium lampshade, a chrome plated arm and iron base. Fully functional.
...
Category
1970s German Industrial Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum, Chrome, Iron
Brown Industrial Workshop Table Lamp, 1960s
Located in Kojetice, CZ
This brown industrial desk lamp was made in former Czechoslovakia during the 1960s. It features an iron body with three adjustable joints. The porcelain socket reqiures standard E 27...
Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Iron
Rare Antique Gone with the Wind Yellow Farmhouse Parlor Corn Oil Lamp
Located in Dayton, OH
Very rare and impressive Antique Victorian Gone with the Wind yellow satin glass double globe (converted to electric) parlor oil table lamp / lantern with hurricane and a molded corn...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Midcentury Brass Telescopic Tripod Table Lamp
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Super brushed brass tripod table lamp.
Yellow velvet shade
Telescopic so the height can be adjusted. The measurement given below relates to the position in the image.
Converted from a vintage camera tripod...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
2 English WWII Masthead Patt 25A Nautical Martime Marine Lantern Table Lamps
Located in Dayton, OH
Pair of World War II era steel and glass nautical / ship lanterns by the Birmingham Engineering Company Ltd, circa early to mid 1940’s, converted / repurposed as a set of table lamps. Brass plaque above glass reads “Masthead Patt. 25A” (missing on one lantern). Knob on handle marked W.T.G. French wired. New off-white shades distributed by the Nantucket Distributing Co.
Dimensions:
8” x 7.75” x 30...
Category
1940s Industrial Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Steel
Bradley and Hubbard Oil Lamp with White Shade
Located in Canton, MA
Bradley and Hubbard oil Lamp. Mixed metals, with a delightful bearded face. Electrified, white glass shade and chimney.
Material: Bronz...
Category
Late 19th Century American Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Antique Pair Japanese Chinese Imari Porcelain Ormolu Table Lamps Blue Red Gilt
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning pair traditional japanese imari bulbous form porcelain vases of medium to large proportions, now converted to a pair of electric table lamps, complete with ormolu stepped ci...
Category
19th Century Chinese Late Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Vintage Blue Table Lamp, 1960s
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Vintage blue table lamp made in former Czechoslovakia during the 1960s. It features a bakelite base with switch, a blue metal adjustable shade and c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum, Chrome
French Gray Metal Vintage Industrial Table Desk Lamp
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Grey metal desk light
2.5 meter black cotton flex, plug and switch in shade
Also available with US/UK plug
Weight: 1.90 kg / 4.2 lb
Priced per individual item. All lamps have been...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Iron
Vintage Green Enamel Bank Lamp, 1950s
Located in Kojetice, CZ
This green table lamp was made in former Czechoslovakia during the 1950s. It features a green enamel shade with a white enamel interior and a chrome plated iron base and arm with two...
Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Enamel, Chrome, Iron
Antique Pair of French Doré Bronze Ormolu Sienna Marble Candlesticks Table Lamps
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An Exceptionally Fine Pair French Ormolu and patinated Bronze early Victorian Single Light Candlesticks of quite tall and large proportions, now converted to a Stunning Pair of Electric Table Lamps, offered in exceptional condition, each with unusual reeded central Siena Marble columns above a very ornate leaf cast socle, ending on acanthus leaf draped tri-pod dolphin feet with stunning concave sided bases, complete with original upper similar bronze cast mounts. Third quarter of the Nineteenth Century.
Condition: Superb condition, these Lamps have been professionally re-gold plated and bronze patinated, professionally re-wired for electricity.
Height: (entire as image one an impressive) 20" (50.5cm). Width: (at base). 6" (15.25cm). Depth: (at base) 5.5" (14cm).
Location: Dublin City, Ireland.
Affordable fixed charge Worldwide Store to door shipping offered.
Sienna Marble is quarried in Northern Italy in areas around the town of the same name. It is one of the most beautiful of all the marbles...
Category
19th Century French Early Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Siena Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Antique Victorian Parlor Gone with the Wind Converted Oil Lamp Floral
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique Gone with the Wind oil lamp (converted to electric) featuring a lightly tinted, ruffled top, milk glass shade, and a milk glass rese...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
19th Century Blown Glass Wedding Lamp, circa 1870
Located in Nantucket, MA
Very Rare Double Font Wedding Lamp, by D.C. Ripley (patented 1870), with two blown into mold aqua blue opaline reservoirs, clambroth match holder, and mil...
Category
1870s American Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Glass
Antique Black Pottery Owl Table Lamp by L. Hjorth of Bornholm
Located in Søborg, DK
An amazing iconic black pottery table lamp with owls by Lauritz Adolph Hjorth of Bornholm Denmark.
The lamp has been rewired with a black twisted cloth flex and insulated where it passes through the brass collar.
Bakelite bulb holder with on/off switch.
No cracks, chips of repairs just age related wear and patina but in overall great condition for its age.
Brass shade holder.
A rare and iconic lamp by Lauritz Hjorth.
Originally an oil lamp with an antique electrical...
Category
1890s Danish Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Pottery
Pair of Lovely Vintage Brass Look Lamps
Located in Pulborough, GB
We are delighted to offer for sale these lovely pair of brass effect lamps.
One lamp (left on the picture) has a small crack which you'll be able to see on the pictures.
Dimens...
Category
20th Century British Victorian Table Lamps
Materials
Plastic
Antique Pair Austrian Royal Vienna Beehive Porcelain Gilt Mounted Table Lamps
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An Imposing and Stunning Pair Austrian Hand Decorated pale yellow ground porcelain and gilt mounted twin swan neck scroll handle Table or Mantle Urns of traditional form, now convert...
Category
19th Century French Early Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Antique German Sitzendorf Dresden Porcelain Cherubs Converted Oil Lamp
By Sitzendorf
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique German Sitzendorf Dresden converted oil lamp mantel trophy urn featuring a design of climbing roses and reclining cherubs. Marked on base wi...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Tizio Desk Lamp by Richard Sapper for Artemide Italy 1970s
Located in PARIS, FR
Tizio lamp by Richard Sapper for the Italian publisher Artemide. He created this lamp in 1972, revolutionary for its time as the first lamp to use a halogen bulb, but also for its system of counterweights that perfectly balance the structure, allowing the user to position the light precisely on the desired area with a simple gesture of the hand. Selected in 1979 for the Compasso d'Oro, it was later incorporated into the MoMa's permanent collection. Still in production today, it now comes in three models: Tizio, Tizio micro...
Category
1970s Italian Industrial Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
Antique Victorian Quality Silver Plated Table Lamp
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique Victorian quality silver plated table lamp having a quality antique Victorian silver plated table lamp with a Corinthian column standing on a square stepped base.
An attr...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate
Contemporary Table Lamp 'Vector' by A-N-D, Weathered Steel
By Lukas Peet, AND Light
Located in Paris, FR
Contemporary Table Lamp 'Vector'
Model shown: Weathered Steel
DIMENSIONS
H. 58 cm x D. 22cm / H. 22.75” x D. 8.5”
ELECTRICAL
Input Voltage: 110–120V, 220–240V, 110–277V
Hand dim...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Steel
Dazor Model 1000 Industrial Desk Lamp 1950s
By Dazor
Located in Tilburg, NL
Dazor Model 1000 Industrial desk lamp, United States, 1950s.
A real American classic, this Dazor Model 1000 desk lamp. Often seen on 1950s desks in modern offices. Stylish and ver...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Vintage Industrial Desk Light from Helo Leuchten, Germany 1950s
Located in NUEMBRECHT, NRW
This vintage desk light was designed and manufactured by HELO in Neuburg in the 1950s.
The lamp features an aluminum lampshade and a flexible, chro...
Category
1950s German Industrial Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Antique German Carl Thieme Meissen Dresden Porcelain Banquet Lamp
By Carl Thieme
Located in Dayton, OH
Late 19th – early 20th century Carl Thieme Meissen / Dresden porcelain two light table lamp featuring a reticulated base and oil lamp / double globe shaped body accented with three d...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Table Lamp 'Vector' by A-N-D, Black Steel
By Lukas Peet, AND Light
Located in Paris, FR
Contemporary Table Lamp 'Vector'
Model shown: Black Steel
DIMENSIONS
H. 58 cm x D. 22cm / H. 22.75” x D. 8.5”
ELECTRICAL
Input Voltage: 110–120V, 220–240V, 110–277V
Hand dimmer ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Steel
Rustic Table Lamp Made From a Wool Bobbin A good attractive rustic table lamp
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Rustic Table Lamp Made From a Wool Bobbin
A good attractive if rustic table lamp made in beech from a mill bobbin, tall and sturdy and it comes with pale green linen covered shade
T...
Category
1960s Industrial Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Beech
Late Century Japanese Cast Brass Industrial Explosion Proof Edison Table Lamp
By Kokosha
Located in Leicester, Leicestershire
Explosion proof cast brass desk lamp with braided cable and red glow switch.
Retro-fitted with a red glow switch, UK plug and vintage Edison filament...
Category
1980s Japanese Industrial Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Green Enamel 3-Arm Iron Industrial Machinist Work Desk Light by Mek Elek
By Mek Elek
Located in Amsterdam, NL
1930s Green enamel, cast iron industrial 3 arm machinist work light by MEK ELEK, UK
Adjustable in height and angle
including plug and switch.
Diameter base 13.5 cm
B22 bulb h...
Category
Mid-20th Century British Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Brass, Enamel, Iron
Articulated Quilted Glass Desk Lamp
Located in Peekskill, NY
This started life as a simple 1930s workshop lamp and we took it a few steps further. This lamp originally has a simple utilitarian tin shade and a screw on desk mounting. We replace...
Category
Early 20th Century American Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Steel
19th Century Adjustable Cast Iron Caged Table Lamp (FREE SHIPPING)
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
An antique adjustable industrial caged table lamp with cast iron base, bronze centerpiece and original fabric cord. The arm adjusts at any ang...
Category
1880s American Industrial Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Iron, Bronze
Typ 113 Peitsche Table Lamp by Curt Fischer for Midgard circa 1940s
By Midgard
Located in Gloucester, GB
Typ 113 Peitsche Table Lamp By Curt Fischer For Midgard Circa 1940s
- Curved adjustable arm with its original grey paint
- Angled steel shade in original brown paint
- Takes E27 fitting bulbs
- Designed by Curt Fischer
- Typ 113 the "Peitsche" (whip)
- German ~ 1940s
- 75cm tall x 16cm wide
Curt Fischer/Midgard
Midgard was founded in 1919 in Auma / Thuringia by the engineer Curt Fischer. Originally for internal needs of his machine factory IWA Ronneberger & Fischer (industrial plant Auma), Curt Fischer developed scissors lamps and articulated lamps. This is why he is considered the inventor of the "tractable light". The in these days widespread ceiling-mounted pendulous lampshades provided only static light from above. As such, the entrepreneur regarded them as rather inflexible. This type of lightning caused the workers to cast shadow over their workpieces themselves. Curt Fischer sketched and manufactured first prototypes of articulated lamps by passing the live cable through tubes and developing articulations between the tubes. He perfected the system, developed many multi-armed desk lamps, work lamps and wall lamps. Within few years he turned to be a luminaire manufacturer which he called Midgard (as the Norse Mythology called the bright Middle Earth inhabited by people). Early on his designs were recognised and valued by Walter Gropius, among others, and hence used at the Bauhaus. Gropius supported Fischer's developments. Their original correspondence has been preserved until the present day.
The post-war period
Curt Fischer passes away in 1956. His son Wolfgang takes over management in the spirit of his father's. Up until in the late 60s Midgard produced their meanwhile three luminaire ranges: - the historic Steering Lamps, which were used among others at the Bauhaus - the robust and modular as well as maintenance-free Machine Lamp...
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1940s German Industrial Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Steel
Original O. C. White Articulated Wall or Desk Lamp, Red Shade
By O.C. White
Located in Peekskill, NY
This is n original O. C. White articulated arm lamp. It has a 3 hole mounting bracket and can be used to directly to a work bench or wall. It has ...
Category
Early 20th Century Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Steel
Antique Brass Double Arm Lamp
Located in San Francisco, CA
Imagine your space in the captivating glow with this brass double arm lamp with a cord length of 94 inches. This exquisite piece accommodates any standard...
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Mid-20th Century Victorian Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Green 2-Arm Metal Brass Vintage Industrial Machinist Work Desk Light by Mek Elek
By Mek Elek
Located in Amsterdam, NL
1930s Green enamel, cast iron industrial 2 arm machinist work light by MEK ELEK, UK
adjustable in height and angle
including plug and switch
Diameter base 13.5 cm
B22 bulb ho...
Category
Mid-20th Century British Industrial Table Lamps
Materials
Enamel, Iron, Brass
Venetian Flambeau Glass Table Lamps / Gold Flecks & Brass Design
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Illuminate your space with the captivating beauty and sublime color of this exquisite handcrafted Venetian table lamp / flambeau, originating from the late 20th century Italy. The l...
Category
1980s Italian Victorian Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Murano Glass, Art Glass
Rare Pair of 1879 James Bembridge Sterling Silver Corinthian Candlestick Lamps
By James Kebberling Bembridge
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning and very rare pair of original 1879 James Kebberling Bembridge sterling silver Corinthian pillared candlestick lamps fully hallmarked...
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique and Vintage Table Lamps for Sale: Find Art Deco Table Lamps, Murano Glass Table Lamps and Other Lighting on 1stDibs
Well-crafted antique and vintage table lamps do more than provide light; the right fixture-and-table combination can add a focal point or creative element to any interior.
Proper table lamps have long been used for lighting our most intimate spaces. Perfect for lighting your nightstand or reading nook, table lamps play an integral role in styling an inviting room. In the years before electricity, lamps used oil. Today, a rewired 19th-century vintage lamp can still provide a touch of elegance for a study.
After industrial milestones such as mass production took hold in the Victorian era, various design movements sought to bring craftsmanship and innovation back to this indispensable household item. Lighting designers affiliated with Art Deco, which originated in the glamorous roaring ’20s, sought to celebrate modern life by fusing modern metals with dark woods and dazzling colors in the fixtures of the era. The geometric shapes and gilded details of vintage Art Deco table lamps provide an air of luxury and sophistication that never goes out of style.
After launching in 1934, Anglepoise lamps soon became a favorite among modernist architects and designers, who interpreted the fixture as “a machine for lighting,” just as Le Corbusier had reimagined the house as “a machine for living in.” The popular task light owed to a collaboration between a vehicle-suspension engineer by the name of George Carwardine and a West Midlands springs manufacturer, Herbert Terry & Sons.
Some mid-century modern table lamps, particularly those created by the likes of Joe Colombo and the legendary lighting artisans at Fontana Arte, bear all the provocative hallmarks associated with Space Age design. Sculptural and versatile, the Louis Poulsen table lamps of that period were revolutionary for their time and still seem innovative today.
If you are looking for something more contemporary, industrial table lamps are demonstrative of a newly chic style that isn’t afraid to pay homage to the past. They look particularly at home in any rustic loft space amid exposed brick and steel beams.
Before you buy a desk lamp or table lamp for your living room, consider your lighting needs. The Snoopy lamp, designed in 1967, or any other “banker’s lamp” (shorthand for the Emeralite desk lamps patented by H.G. McFaddin and Company), provides light at a downward angle that is perfect for writing, while the Fontana table lamp and the beloved Grasshopper lamp by Greta Magnusson-Grossman each yield a soft and even glow. Some table lamps require lampshades to be bought separately.
Whether it’s a classic antique Tiffany table lamp, a Murano glass table lamp or even a bold avant-garde fixture custom-made by a contemporary design firm, the right table lamp can completely transform a room. Find the right one for you on 1stDibs.
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