Claudio Salocchi Milk Glass Table Lamp

This piece is a 1970s Italian plastic lamp, embodying the era’s playful yet futuristic design sensibility. Material & Finish Made from molded pla...

Max Ingrand project, 1954, for Fontana Arte, Italy, white satin glass, small brass seal in the vase, metal base, white lacquered. Best known for its elegant and innovative vintage lighting pieces, the Milan-based firm Fontana Arte pioneered one of the key features of 20th-century and contemporary Italian design: the union of artistry and industry wrought by partnerships between creative talents — chiefly architects — and entrepreneurial businesses. Fontana Arte is further distinguished by having had as artistic director, in succession, four of Italy’s most inventive modernist designers: Giò Ponti, Pietro Chiesa, French transplant Max Ingrand and Gae Aulenti. The bread and butter of the glassmaking company that Luigi Fontana founded in 1881 was plate-glass panels for the construction industry. In 1930, Fontana met Ponti — then the artistic director of the Richard-Ginori ceramics workshop and the editor of the influential magazine Domus— at a biannual design exhibition that became the precursor to today’s Milan Design Triennale, and the two hatched an idea for a furniture and housewares firm. Fontana Arte was incorporated in 1932 with Ponti as its chief of design. He contributed several lamps that remain among the company’s signature works, including the orb-atop-cone Bilia table lamp and the 0024 pendant — a stratified hanging sphere. The following year, Fontana Arte partnered with the influential Milan studio glassmaker and retailer Pietro Chiesa, who took over as artistic director. Chiesa’s designs for lighting — as well as for tables and items including vases and ashtrays — express an appreciation for fluidity and simplicity of line, as seen in works such as his flute-shaped Luminator floor lamp and the 1932 Fontana table — an arched sheet of glass that is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Six years after Chiesa’s 1948 death, the École des Beaux Arts–trained Max Ingrand took over as head of design at Fontana Arte. Ingrand brought a similarly expressive formal sensibility to wares such as lamps and mirrors, but he also had a masterful eye for the manipulation of glass surfaces — whether they be cut, frosted, acid-etched or sand-blasted. His classic design is the Fontana table lamp of 1954, which has a truncated cone shade and curved body, both of which are made of pure, chic white-frosted glass. Following Ingrand, the often-audacious Italian architect Gae Aulenti served as the company’s artistic director from 1979 to 1996, and while she generally insisted that furnishings take second place aesthetically to architecture, she made an exception for Fontana Arte pieces such as the Tavolo con Ruote series of glass coffee and dining tables on wheels...

Elegant Murano art glass vase in a soft opaque white hue, featuring a classic amphora shape with a rounded body and wide flared rim. Handblown by Venetian artisans, this piece highli...

Italian ceramic floor lamp by Tommaso Barbi, 1970s. Just what every house needs, an oversized pagoda. Build your collection with Barbi's pa...

This is an original, authentic Art Deco white milk glass light shade, showcasing the elegance and craftsmanship of the era. The glass remains in remarkable condition, preserving its ...

Beautiful white porcelain living room lamp. Far Eastern inspiration / Japonism, France, circa 1970-1980. Stamped "Pillivuyt France Porcelain since 1...

1970's Porcelain table lamp in white colour and with a white rounded shape.

White glass Barovier table lamp with rice grain pattern standing on a round metal base. There is also a light source inside the glass base. Delivered with brand new lamp shade in bl...