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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
2010s Danish Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Linen, Oak
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Nickel
2010s Swedish Modern Table Lamps
Sandstone
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Plastic
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
2010s European Modern Table Lamps
Brass, Steel
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Steel
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Linen, Oak
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Nickel
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Nickel
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
2010s European Modern Table Lamps
Brass
20th Century American Modern Table Lamps
Rock Crystal, Metal
1970s American Vintage Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Table Lamps
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Table Lamps
Resin
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Crystal, Onyx, Gold, Bronze
2010s Greek Modern Table Lamps
Marble
1960s Vintage Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic, Faux Bamboo, Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s Belgian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
1960s Vintage Modern Table Lamps
Plaster, Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Plastic
2010s Swedish Modern Table Lamps
Marble
2010s European Modern Table Lamps
Brass, Steel
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Metal
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Metal
2010s British Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Table Lamps
Stainless Steel
2010s British Modern Table Lamps
Steel
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Murrine
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Marble
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Nickel
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Gold Plate, Bronze
2010s French Modern Table Lamps
Brass
1980s Colombian Vintage Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Table Lamps
Glass
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Table Lamps
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
1970s Vintage Modern Table Lamps
Art Glass
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
2010s Dutch Modern Table Lamps
Iron
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Alabaster, Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Metal
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Marble, Crystal, Brass
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Marble, Carrara Marble, Brass