Leather Table Lamps

A red leather table lamp, in the manner of Paul Dupre Lafon. France, 1930s. With the shade: 57.5 cm high by 35.5 cm diameter Lamp base only: 39 cm hi...

A red leather lamp, with cream stitching detail to the circular base, and to the upright, designed by Kirby, Beard & Co for Hermes. Stamped to the bas...

The base of this lamp is a beautiful deco inspired equestrian horse head. Cast in bronze, the horse is illuminated from above when lit. The shade is a soft white paper shade embellis...

French Art Deco leather table lamp, France, 1930s. Leather, glass & brass. Double glass shade on its bronze green leather and brass base. In the style of Jacques Adnet. Measures: Hei...

Wonderfully constructed table lamp of stacked leather bound books, vintage and from England.

Table lamp model 2434 designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, 1939. Early model with leather clad foot and stem. Measures: H 55 cm D 20 cm Josef Frank was a true European, he was also a pioneer of what would become classic 20th century Swedish design and the “Scandinavian Design Style”. Austrian- born Frank started his design career as an architect after having trained at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna between 1903 and 1910. After his training he went on to teach at Kunstgewerbeschule (The Viennese School of Arts and crafts) where he developed and espoused the new school of modernist thinking towards Architecture and Design that was coming to fruition in Vienna at the time. He also went on to lead the Vienna Werkbund throughout the 1920s. This was a truly progressive group of Architects and Designers who set about improving the daily lives of Austrian people through modernist design and architecture in partnership with Arts and Crafts ideals and construction. Frank’s leadership of the Werkbund had already cemented his place at the forefront of European design. Frank’s time in Vienna was typified by his design for the “Die Wohnung” exhibition of the Deutscher Werkbund in Stuttgart, 1927 where he exhibited along side his contemporaries at the forefront of design, such as the likes of Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius. Here he showed a specially designed pair of flat-roofed reinforced concrete houses in what is now seen as a typical modernist style. What separated Frank’s house from the other 32 houses of the exhibition was the interior and furniture inside the building. It was described as “Neo-Classical” and filled with an eclectic mix of period pieces, modern design and pieces designed by Frank himself that seemed to cross the two worlds. This was a complete opposite direction to that which his fellow Architects were travelling in with their pared back and angular aesthetics. Frank said of his own work: “The house is not a work of art, simply a place where one lives,” and by this reasoning Frank rejected the regimental mechanisation of the living space that his contemporaries believed in, instead he set about creating congenial and spontaneous interiors. Frank’s practice saw him placing the bright colours and the soft forms of nature back into the furnishings and interiors that he thought modernism sorely mist. Frank, along with Oskar Walch set up Haus und Garten in Vienna in 1925. This was Frank’s first commercial foray into furniture and home furnishings and the company went on to become the most influential furnishing house in Vienna with a riotous depth of colour and interesting shapes becoming the trademark of their design. However this success was to come to an end with rise of Nazism in Vienna in the early 1930’s. Frank was Jewish, and he and his wife Anna decided they would leave Vienna for her motherland: Sweden, in 1933. Frank continued to design for Haus and Garten, visiting Vienna occasionally and designing the pieces that would continue to be the company’s best...

Wonderful table lamp with the leaf patterned lamp shade fabric "stensöta" designed by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn. This is model 2434-2 designed in ...

Anglepoise table lamp by George Cawardine & Hermes for Herbert Terry & Sons Ltd. Designed and manufactured in United Kingdom, circa 1930s. Leather ove...

Art Deco Lovely pair of parchment leather table lamps. Jacques Adnet. Made in France, circa 1930s. Have been rewired. And the leather has been re-polished.

Pair of leather table lamps by Paul Dupre-Lafon for Hermes Signed with impressed "Hermes Paris Modele" Silk shades, silk cord and Bakelite...

Elegant design for Jumo lighting from the late 1930s with the extra-rare leather wrapped base. Beautiful counter-balance movement.

Art Deco library table lamp, solid mahogany, French polish, steel base covered with chocolate brown leather. Polished copper arms and handle, parchm...