Copper Table Lamps

François-Xavier Lalanne “Pigeon” table lamp Patinated bronze, patinated copper, and opal glass; monogrammed, numbered, and with the editor's mark ARTC...

Dimensions: 28.50in H x 12in W x 10in D Lamp Shade: 10in H x 15in W.

Presenting a lovely pair of Arts and Crafts lighthouse form table lamps. American Arts & Crafts movement, circa 1900-20. The lamps are in the form of lighthouses with hand beaten copper roofs which hinge to access the bulb. Turned copper finial to the top. The roofs have little air vents on all sides. The roofs sit on a bronzed base with frosted slag glass panels on all sides. The pillars supporting the ‘house’ are enameled to resemble mottled green marble or malachite. The sit on circular turned and fluted bases. They have been re-wired for safety but you will see from the photos that the original wire and plugs are from the early 20th Century, thereby confirming the genuine age of these superb and UNIQUE pieces. The Arts and Crafts movement emerged during the late Victorian period in England, the most industrialized country in the world at that time. Anxieties about industrial life fueled a positive revaluation of handcraftsmanship and precapitalist forms of culture and society. Arts and Crafts designers sought to improve standards of decorative design, believed to have been debased by mechanization, and to create environments in which beautiful and fine workmanship governed. The Arts and Crafts movement did not promote a particular style, but it did advocate reform as part of its philosophy and instigated a critique of industrial labor; as modern machines replaced workers, Arts and Crafts proponents called for an end to the division of labor and advanced the designer as craftsman. The British movement derived its philosophical underpinnings from two important sources: first, the designer A. W. N. Pugin (1812-1852), whose early writings promoting the Gothic Revival presaged English apprehension about industrialization, and second, theorist and art critic John Ruskin (1819-1900), who advocated medieval architecture as a model for honest craftsmanship and quality materials. Ruskin’s persuasive rhetoric influenced the movement’s figurehead (and ardent socialist) William Morris (1834-1896), who believed that industrialization alienated labor and created a dehumanizing distance between the designer and manufacturer. Morris strove to unite all the arts within the decoration of the home, emphasizing nature and simplicity of form. The American Arts and Crafts movement was inextricably linked to the British movement and closely aligned with the work of William Morris and the second generation of architect-designers, including Charles Robert Ashbee (1863-1942), who toured the United States, and Charles Francis Annesley Voysey...

A very impressive early 1960s Brutalist steel and bronze finish table lamp from Richard Barr’s Studio Collection for Laurel Lamp. Large and...

A stylish adjustable bronze and copper desk lamp, with a glass fluted white Vaseline shade. Lightly cleaned and waxed, retaining its oxidised patina. Re-wired with antique style t...

Bauhaus lamp of Bauhaus Weimar Staaches, (Bauhaus Weimar School Germany). Bronze and brass architectural desk lamp by Bauhaus Weimar School Germany. Bronze and brass with copper acce...

Gorgeous pair of Japanese mixed metal table lamps by Marbro Lamp Company, circa 1950s. The lamps depict a sedge of cranes and are made of inlays...

Formed in the lifelike shape of a cobra poised to strike, this Hollywood Regency floor lamp is a not-so-subtle reminder of the lavishness, color-contrasts, and sculptural curves that...

This lamp has no obvious indication of country of origin. It is a type we have not seen before... Sui generis. It seems to us to be Austrian, the base is cast and finished with tendr...

Gorgeous and unique 1920s French Art Nouveau gilt over bronze serpent or snake table lamp embellished with lovely copper roses.

Pair of Bauhaus, Weimar exhibition bronze lamps with copper accents and applied rectangular and semicircle elements. Adjustable shade. Lamps rewired for USA, each uses one bulb.

Steam gauge mounted onto a copper-plated plynth and converted to desk lamp. The Gauge itself s made from several metals - bronze, copper and brass. Originally this would have had a glass tube connecting the two stand pipes which was the site gauge, the two stand pipes now hold an E27 lamp holder with a ball joint connector to allow the lamps to turn / tilt in all directions. The light can be used with or without the acrylic guard, all the handles have been locked to allow cables to pass through the Stand pipes. Here at Loomlight we have fabricated the copper plynth and mounted the pipes to make a fantastic display of 1950s vintage engineering...