Midcentury Scandinavian Table Lamp in Brass and Glass

Elegant Scandinavian table lamp by Elektro-Metall Malmö, Sweden, 1940s. This lamp is made of brass with a teak rod and an opaline glass shade. The large brass shade is resting on the...

This Swedish table lamp from around 1940 features a sculptural brass figure set within a crescent-shaped frame. The base is cast in brass with soft scalloped edges and raised relief ...

This rare table lamp was designed by Carl Fagerlund and produced by Orrefors in Sweden during the 1950s. The lamp is marked with the model number RD 1983 and "Orrefors Sweden" on a m...

Stylish and elegant copper and brass table lamp made in Italy in the late 1960s early 1970s. The base of the lamp with in the center the sphere with it's irregular copper and brass surface, is in very good condition. We had a new custom shade made which measures D. 14.960 x H. 14.960 inches. The diameter of the base is 3.937 inches. This beauty will be shipped insured in a custom made wooden crate. Cost of transport to the US is crate included. Italy has produced some of the greatest furniture designers in the world, such as Achille Castiglioni, Gio Ponti, and Ettore Sottsass. Italian interior design in the 1900s was particularly well-known and grew to the heights of class and sophistication. At first, in the early 1900s, Italian furniture designers struggled to create an equal balance between classical elegance and modern creativity, and initially Italian interior design in the 1910s and 1920s was very similar to that of French Art Deco styles, using exotic materials and creating sumptuous furniture. However, Italian Art Deco reached its pinnacle under Gio Ponti, who made his designs sophisticated, elegant, stylish and refined, but also modern, exotic and creative. In 1926, a new style of furnishing emerged in Italy, known as "Razionalismo", or "Rationalism". The most successful and famous of the Rationalists were the Gruppo 7...