Ultra Cool Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sphere Shaped Cardboard Table Lamp

Vintage Midcentury Italian, gilded metal bamboo-form, 3-light Floor Lamp with original matching metal shades. The gilding of the metal was executed in a beautiful aged dark bronze co...

Dublin Lantern in Bronze with Copper Dome and Holophane Dual Glass Shades c1938 (2) Available. Old Plank has been importing from Ireland since 1992 and these Dublin Holophane Bronze and Copper Lanterns must be one of our all-time favorite discoveries. Not only are the Dublin Lanterns beautiful, but their build quality is insane for they are more like precision works of art, than commercial lighting. The exterior glass is both frosted and ribbed, while the interior has a double Holophane inner and outer shade, which we have never seen prior. To us, it is obvious that there was no budget in mind when these were designed in the 1930s, for it would have been difficult to make them more expensive to produce. Whomever the manufacturer was and there are some experts who think it was Bleeco, on St Martin’s Place, which was founded in 1921 in Brighton by Ernest Heaps, who remained its managing director until 1961 when the firm was purchased by Haven Foundries. While others thought they were French produced. The fact that the interiors of the lanterns have the Dual-wall English Holophane shades, I would tend to lean towards Bleeco. The Bronze and Copper Lanterns were installed in the city of Dublin in 1938 by Mr F. X. Algar, who was then head of the Lighting Section of the Irish Electricity Supply Board. Originally these lanterns lit O'Connell Street mounted on beautiful double armed art deco concrete...

Vintage French lantern in an unusually large size with a leaf motif. The lantern was probably made during the 1950’s and has (4) new American ca...

Old Plank's custom handmade Solid Bronze Round Dining Table or Center Hall Table Base with an intricate Bronze woven pattern. This Solid Bronze Mid-Century Modern Round Dining Table ...

Space Age table lamp with spherical reflector from the Swiss manufacturer Swisslamps based on a design by Alfred Hablützel and Bernhard Luginbühl from the 1960s. A minimalist design...

Large Italian hand crafted ceramic sphere lamp on brass and enamel base. Raymor, Italy, circa 1950s.

This is a table lamp featuring a crackled glass globe resting on a conical gilded aluminum base. The base has small perforations that allow light to diffuse subtly, complementing the...

A geometric Art Deco lamp crafted from solid birch, featuring a ball-shaped base adorned with soft horizontal lines. The lamp is fitted with a brass lampholder with porcelain fitting...