Native American broadly describes any Indigenous people in North America and encompasses hundreds of tribes and groups, all with distinct cultures. Native American–style furniture and decor likewise varies widely, from pieces created by Indigenous people to those appropriated by non-native designers.
Indigenous furniture’s rich heritage includes the bentwood boxes of the Northwest Coast carved from cedar for storing household or ceremonial objects. Generations of Native American people have made baskets for holding household items, with those in the Northeast using sweetgrass and those in the Southeast using pine needles and wicker. Artisans in the Plateau region wove watertight pieces like cradles from plant materials. Although these objects were intricately made, they were usually utilitarian rather than decorative.
The colonization of North America and the removal of Indigenous people from their lands led to the suppression of these practices. Many styles that used Native American motifs — such as Southwestern style, which was heavily influenced by the geometric patterns of Navajo textiles — have historically not involved Indigenous creators and, instead, have taken their traditions without their tribal context.
When decorating a home with Native American–style furniture, it is important to do so respectfully, by understanding the origins of motifs and objects and examining who profits from their sale. There are now Indigenous-led companies, such as Cherokee designer Cray Bauxmont-Flynn’s Amatoya and Totem House Design, promoting Indigenous work in furniture and home decor. Supporting Indigenous artists and artisans is essential to confronting the still pervasive issue of cultural appropriation in design.
Find a collection of Native American living room furniture, folk art, rugs and carpets, decorative objects and other items on 1stDibs.
Southwestern Wedding Vase Pottery Table Lamp — Hand-Painted Terracotta
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A terracotta pottery wedding vase, wired as a table lamp. The double-spouted form is finished in a warm rust-red clay body with hand-painted cream and black bands featuring stepped s...
Terracotta
$974Sale Price|25% Off
Monumental White Stone Pillar Table Lamp in Southwest Style with Incised Etching
Located in Lomita, CA
The size, the shape and the weight of this lamp cause it to stand out from the crowd. It is truly monumental at 38 inches tall. The lamp exudes Southwest and Aztec style with etching that appears on both sides. It is a midcentury modern incised white stone pillar lamp. It is In the Southwest American style, and from the mid to late 20th Century.Of oval section, the pillar-form body is incised in a Native American weaving...
Stone, Travertine
$2,660 / set
H 33.25 in W 19 in D 11.25 in
Monumental Pair of Table Lamps Gold Brass Pagoda Style with Shade Vintage, Italy
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Beautiful pair of large monumental table lamps or side table lamps. Made of brass, in Italy. Each light requires one European E27 / 110 Volt Edison bulb, up to 60 watts. They come wi...
Metal, Brass
Large 22" Tall Vase Shape Green Pottery & Brass Hand Painted Table Lamp MINT
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Large 22" Tall Vase Shape Green Pottery & Brass Hand Painted Table Lamp MINT
Brass
Table Lamp by Hildur Haggård in Incised Stoneware, Sweden, 1930s
Located in Eskilstuna, SE
A stoneware table lamp by Hildur Haggård, made in Sweden during the 1930s. The rounded body with a narrow neck is decorated with hand-incised horizontal bands and finished in a mottl...
Brass
Incised Brass & Hand Painted Peacock Vase Form Table Lamp
Located in Chicago, IL
Vase form brass table lap with incised design and hand painted lacquer details. Center peacock and floral painted detailing over etched brass. Sold san...
Vintage Hand-Painted Italian Pottery Table Lamp by Bitossi, 1950s
By Bitossi
Located in New Orleans, LA
A vintage hand painted Italian faience or glazed pottery table lamp with fanciful, bucolic scenery and brass fittings, attributed to Bitossi. Early Bitossi marks on lamps, particul...
Brass, Iron
Cornflower and Saffron Hand Painted Ceramic Vase Form Table Lamp
Located in Chicago, IL
Asian ceramic vase form table lamp with hand painted cornflower blue and saffron foliate detailing over white glaze. Beveled and ebonized wood base...
Brass
Antique Chinese Hand Painted Porcelain Vase Lamp
Located in North Salem, NY
Very attractive one of a kind 19th century hand-painted Chinese porcelain vase lamp with double hung socket on turned shaped wood base. Ci...
Porcelain
Vintage Talavera Pottery Table Lamp, Hand-Painted Ceramic, Spain
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Hand-painted Talavera ceramic table lamp in blue white and saffron yellow orange, an urn-form vase hand-painted in Talavera de la Reina, Spain, with a new white silk pleated lampshad...
Brass
Elegant hand painted Chinese export pottery table lamps/a pair
Located in Allentown, PA
This is an elegant pair of mid-century hand painted Chinese export pottery table lamps. This pair of lamps have a pair of new cream colored linen shades with an amber undertone. The ...
Pottery
Art Pottery Tall Vase Shape Table Lamp
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Very nice Mid-Century Modern art pottery green glaze over ceramic base table lamp on walnut base.
$850 / set
H 24 in W 11 in D 11 in
Vintage Southwestern Native American Terracotta Pottery Vase Table Lamp - a Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Southwestern Native American Terracotta Pottery Vase Table Lamps with Wooden Mounts - a Pair. Circa Late 20th Century. Measurements: 24" H (to finial) x 15" H (to light socke...
Terracotta, Wood
$3,500 / set
H 31 in Dm 7 in
Tall Pair Nancy Wickham Style Incised Green & Brown Wash Pottery Table Lamps
By Design Technics, Nancy Wickham Boyd
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Pair Design Technics Nancy Wickham Boyd attributed Pottery Table Lamps. Featuring handcrafted tapered ceramic bottle shape forms, glazed neutral Sand background, Light Yellow vertica...
Brass
Western Landscape Bison Lamp by California Ceramic Designers Inc.
Located in West Chester, PA
Vintage ceramic lamp by California Ceramic Designers Inc. featuring a Southwestern landscape around the circumference with three nicely de...
Ceramic
Large Pair of Southwestern Table Lamps by Casual Lamps of California
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Large and Impressive Pair of Southwestern Table Lamps by Casual Lamps of California, Incised design of stylized partridge and lizard combined ...
Pottery
Two Native American Pottery Lamp Bases, Zia Pueblo
Located in Denver, CO
A pair of earthenware lamps finely painted in polychrome with slip glazes in a classic Zia motif. Zia Pueblo is located 18 miles northwest of Bernalillo,...
Earthenware
Pair of Vintage Bitossi Italian Art Pottery Navajo Tribal Lamps
By Bitossi
Located in Wilton, CT
Large and heavy pair of hand-turned, vintage Bitossi lamps with earth colored glazes in geometric Navajo style tribal pattern over a basket weave...
Pottery