Modern Table Lamps
MODERN STYLE
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
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Style: Modern
Number in Set: Set of 8
Tolomeo Mega Black Lamp with Clamp by Michele De Lucchi & Giancarlo Fassina
Located in Hicksville, NY
An extension to the iconic Tolomeo family, Tolomeo Mega features the same arm balancing system as the Tolomeo table lamp combined with a selection of parchment or fabric shades, crea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum, Stainless Steel
Tolomeo Mega Fiber Lamp with Clamp by Michele De Lucchi & Giancarlo Fassina
Located in Hicksville, NY
An extension to the iconic Tolomeo family, Tolomeo Mega features the same arm balancing system as the Tolomeo table lamp combined with a selection of parchment or fabric shades, crea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum, Stainless Steel
Artemide Demetra Micro Led Table Lamp in White with Clamp by Naoto Fukasawa
Located in Hicksville, NY
Simple in concept, Demetra has an adjustable, turnable and tiltable head with integrated dimmer switch atop an extending arm allowing for direct LED light diffusion.
Made of alumin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Hungarian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
Ghidini 1961 Bio Table Lamp in Satin Brass by Aldo Cibic
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
Bio table lamp in satin brass by A. Cibic.
Materials:
Satin brass
Net weight:
2.35
Dimensions:
W 40 x D 17 x 42 H cm.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Handblown Blue Green Glass Gemini Table Lamp, ANDREW HUGHES
Located in New York, NY
This table lamp by New York designer and glass artist Andrew Hughes channels 1940's France.
The spherical glass base is created through dual hot and cold processes.
Wired to US s...
Category
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Chrome
Venini Mappamondo Table Light in Horizon and Sapphire by Sandro Chia
By Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mappamondo Table lamp, designed by Sandro Chia and manufactured by Venini, is a table sculpture in handmade blown glass. Limited edition of 99 art pieces. Indoor use only.
Dimensi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Blown Glass
New Modern Lamp in Marble, creator Bec Brittain
By Bec Brittain
Located in Milan, IT
Lightness and vitality. Bec Brittain’s study of weights and proportions wasn’t meant to be a pure sculptural exercise but, rather, aimed to make marble more her own, an everyday mate...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Marble
Venini Replicanti Table Light in Red with Glasses
By Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Replicanti table lamp, designed and manufactured by Venini, features an handmade blown glass body wearing different types of accessories. Limited edition of 99 art pieces. Indoor use...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Blown Glass
Artemide Melampo E26 Table Lamp in Grey by Adrien Gardère
Located in Hicksville, NY
A silk satin fabric shade connected to a painted zamac base via a painted aluminum stem, Melampo can be adjusted for direct and indirect light.
Mini accommodates 2 shade positions ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
Handblown Grey Glass Gemini Table Lamp, ANDREW HUGHES
Located in New York, NY
This table lamp by New York designer and glass artist Andrew Hughes channels 1940's France.
The spherical grey glass base is created through dual hot and cold processes.
Wired to U...
Category
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Chrome
Artemide Empatia 16 LED Table Lamp with Extension, Carlotta De Bevilacqua & Paol
Located in Hicksville, NY
Available in all formats and three body sizes, Empatia is marriage of art and science.
The handblown glass diffuser displays an ombré progression of opacity from transparent to fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
Pair of Mirrored Murano Glass Gold Lamps
Located in Austin, TX
Murano glass modernist lamps of handblown smoked glass and 23-Karat gold leafing layered together. The polyhedral elements give the lamps a soft dynamic, modernist feel. This pair ha...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Gold Leaf
Zenith Table Lamp
Located in Westport, CT
Silver thermoformed glass (also available in Gold) mounted on a lacquered black metal stand.
Handmade in Europe.
Category
2010s Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Venini Muse Glass Sculpture Light in White by Fabio Novembre
By Fabio Novembre, Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Musa glass sculpture table lamp, designed by Fabio Novembre and manufactured by Venini, features an handmade glass sculpture with a metal cage and a Carrara marble base. Available in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Glass
Transgenic Light #3 Table Lamp
By Matteo Cibic
Located in Roma, IT
Transgenic lights by Matteo Cibic is a series of three table lamps. The glass structures are inspired by the plant kingdom’s shapes, recognizable despite the genetic mutation process they seem to have gone through. The photosynthesis process gets reversed by those mutant “plants” that spread light...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Artemide Eclittica Round Table Lamp in Red by Carlotta de Bevilacqua
Located in Hicksville, NY
Created with advanced flexible printed LED circuit boards which ensure performance stability and light control, Eclittica’s circular aesthetic is created for and by optimal optical t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
Signal Table Light from Souda, Polished Brass, Made to Order
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The signal table lamp is familiar, yet futuristic. From beneath it’s spun metal shade LEDs cast a warm and inviting glow onto a polished central stem grounded by a cast iron base. Wi...
Category
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Steel, Aluminum, Metal
Venini Sultani Large Table Light in Grey by Leonardo Ranucci
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sultani table lamp, designed by Leonardo Ranucci and manufactured by Venini, features an hand-made blown glass body with fabric shade. Indoor use only.
Dimensions: W 24.5 cm x D 4...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Glass
New Modern Lamp in Marble, creator Bec Brittain
By Bec Brittain
Located in Milan, IT
Lightness and vitality. Bec Brittain’s study of weights and proportions wasn’t meant to be a pure sculptural exercise but, rather, aimed to make marble more her own, an everyday mate...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Marble
Pair of Italian White Carrara Marble Table Lamps, "VARA" by Massimo Mangiardi
Located in New York, NY
Pair of VARA Italian white Carrara marble table lamps by Massimo Mangiardi.
Sleek modern pieces with unique construction with inter-stac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Carrara Marble
Michael Anastassiades Modern Minimalist Chrome & Glass Table Desk Lamp for FLOS
Located in Brooklyn, NY
FLOS IC Lights T1 Low Table Lamp in Chrome by Michael Anastassiades
Like the other pieces in his IC Light Series, the IC Lights T balances designer Michael Anastassiades’ love of in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Steel
Artemide Eclittica Round Table Lamp in White by Carlotta De Bevilacqua
Located in Hicksville, NY
Created with advanced flexible printed LED circuit boards which ensure performance stability and light control, Eclittica’s circular aesthetic is created for and by optimal optical t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
Pair of Signal Table Lights in Brass from Souda, Made to Order
By Souda
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The signal table lamp is familiar, yet futuristic. From beneath it’s spun metal shade LEDs cast a warm and inviting glow onto a polished central stem grounded by a cast iron base. Wi...
Category
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Steel
Ghidini 1961 Giotto Stainless Steel Floor Lamp in Polished Gold Finish
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Floor lamp in stainless steel and plexiglass. The lamp body is in stainless steel and has a top in two-toned plexiglass. Suggested bulb one x 230V E27 max 11W LED.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Stainless Steel
“Tiffany” contemporary Table Lamp 30 purple Silk, Antiqued Brass, Silvered Glas
Located in Pietrasanta, IT
TIFFANY the iconic lamp!
Tiffany, a timeless lamp, inspired by the international movie “Breakfast at Tiffany” and the talented character Audrey Hepburn, is a contemporary lamp, enti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Brazilian contemporary table lamp made of cast bronze
Located in Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
Sabiá Brazilian contemporary poetic minimalist table lamp in bronze cast design by Cristiana Bertolucci
Table lamp produced in cast bronze.
Literal inspiration of nature, the Sabia l...
Category
2010s Brazilian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Bespoke Pair of French Sculptural Raku Ceramic Cubist Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Bespoke Pair of French Sculptural Raku Ceramic Cubist Lamps made exclusively for Lerebours Antiques by French ceramicist, Barbara Billoud. Set of 2.
Lead Time is 11-12 weeks.
One pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Numbered Limited Grey Mini Cocoon Wall- and Tablelamp by Studio Adinda
Located in UTRECHT, UT
The cocoon series depicts our vulnerable, yet resilient earth. The combination of lighting and translucent polyester creates a diffused light which can develop a dreamy atmosphere.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Steel
Pair of Peridot and Aquamarine Somerset Table Lamps by David Duncan Studio
By David Duncan
Located in New York, NY
The Somerset Table lamps-- A pair of table lamps with peridot and aquamarine transparent cast resin sections with smokey topaz dividers forming bamboo-shaped lamp bases. Each lamp ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Numbered Limited Dark Green Mini Cocoon Wall, and Tablelamp by Studio Adinda
Located in UTRECHT, UT
The cocoon series depicts our vulnerable, yet resilient earth. The combination of lighting and translucent polyester creates a diffused light which can develop a dreamy atmosphere.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Steel
Elegant Pair of Mirrored Sommerso Glass Table Lamps, 2022
By Venfield
Located in New York, NY
Murano hand-blown mirrored sommerso glass table lamps with chrome hardware. Italy 2022.
Lamp shades sold separately.
Category
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Murano Glass
Stefan Rurak, TL #11, USA
By Stefan Rurak
Located in New York, NY
Brooklyn based Stefan Rurak’s unique vision and process stems from a diverse range of media, ranging from things as conventional as drawing and painting to performance art. “The work...
Category
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Concrete, Gold Leaf, Steel
Stefan Rurak, TL #10, USA
By Stefan Rurak
Located in New York, NY
Brooklyn based Stefan Rurak’s unique vision and process stems from a diverse range of media, ranging from things as conventional as drawing and painting to performance art. “The work...
Category
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Concrete, Steel, Gold Leaf
Stefan Rurak, TL #9, USA
By Stefan Rurak
Located in New York, NY
Brooklyn based Stefan Rurak’s unique vision and process stems from a diverse range of media, ranging from things as conventional as drawing and painting to performance art. “The work...
Category
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Concrete, Steel, Gold Leaf
Stefan Rurak, TL #7, USA
By Stefan Rurak
Located in New York, NY
Brooklyn based Stefan Rurak’s unique vision and process stems from a diverse range of media, ranging from things as conventional as drawing and painting to performance art. “The work...
Category
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Concrete, Steel, Gold Leaf
Alex Roskin, Fleur-de-lis Table Lamp II, USA
By Alex Roskin
Located in New York, NY
True to form, Alex Roskin’s LED sculptural lamp, in brass, has the same perfectly proportioned curves as his unique bronze and steel furniture pieces. Internal LEDs bounce off of the...
Category
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Pair of Somerset Table Lamps by David Duncan Studio
By David Duncan
Located in New York, NY
The Somerset Table lamps-- A pair of table lamps with amber and brown transparent cast resin sections forming bamboo-shaped lamp bases. Each lamp can accommodate two medium base ligh...
Category
2010s North American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Murano Gray Glass Pair of Table Lamps
Located in Austin, TX
Modernist pair of handblown, gray, ridged Murano glass table lamps with "polvera d'oro" (23-karat gold flecks) fused in the glass rings. Rewired for the US.
This pair is currently l...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Gold Leaf
Designer's Table Lamp in Patinated Brass, France, 2019
Located in Paris, FR
Great table brass lamp, in ellipses forms.
The table lamp is in fully patinated brass, included a nice light grey shade.
This lamp has been made in France, by D.M.L., a talented yo...
Category
2010s French Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
21st Century Purho Design Chiara Lantern Murano Glass and Brass Various Colors
By Purho Murano
Located in Brembate di Sopra (BG), IT
21st century Purho design Chiara lantern Murano glass and brass various colors
A heart of frosted Murano glass mounted into a brass cage. This is Chiara, a rechargeable lantern desi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Murano Glass
SLAMP Atlante Table Light in Fumé by Nigel Coates
By Slamp, Nigel Coates
Located in Pomezia, Rome
The Odyssey described him as one of those chosen to hold up the sky for all eternity, a titan selected by Zeus: Atlas inspired this lamp’s strong, modern design, tied to all that is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal
Brass and Glass Light
Located in Chicago, IL
Materials: Brass and glass
Dimensions: 4 x 4 x 14"
Category
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Modern table lamps for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Modern table lamps for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage table lamps created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include lighting, decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, glass and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Modern table lamps made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and North America pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original table lamps, popular names associated with this style include Artemide, Flos, Pablo Designs, and Vistosi. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee.
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