Modern Table Lamps
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Steel, Brass, Silver Leaf
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Table Lamps
Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Table Lamps
Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary English Modern Table Lamps
Slate
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Murano Glass
Mid-20th Century Modern Table Lamps
Sandstone, Brass
1990s Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Opaline Glass
1960s American Vintage Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Table Lamps
Acrylic, Polyester
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
2010s Mexican Modern Table Lamps
Stone
2010s Mexican Modern Table Lamps
Stone
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
2010s British Modern Table Lamps
Plaster, Scagliola
1980s British Vintage Modern Table Lamps
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Crystal, Brass
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Alabaster, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic, Stoneware
Late 20th Century American Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s Taiwanese Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
2010s Taiwanese Modern Table Lamps
Metal
2010s Brazilian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s Brazilian Modern Table Lamps
Steel
2010s Brazilian Modern Table Lamps
Steel
2010s Brazilian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s Brazilian Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Marble, Brass
1960s American Vintage Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s Brazilian Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
20th Century American Modern Table Lamps
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Plastic, Resin
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Alabaster, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Blown Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Table Lamps
Marble, Metal
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Table Lamps
Acrylic, Polyester
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Table Lamps
Acrylic, Polyester
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Art Glass
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Table Lamps
Bamboo
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s British Modern Table Lamps
Brass, Steel
2010s Swiss Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic, Glass
2010s Modern Table Lamps
Metal
1990s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
2010s Brazilian Modern Table Lamps
Linen
20th Century French Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic, Resin