Wood Table Lamp

A Gilbert Watrous designed carved wood lamp with red stain. Made by Heifetz Lighting Co. in the USA, circa 1950s. Base height 22".

An unattributed American Craftsman thick burled wood slab table lamp with rectangular base. Shade not included.

A table lamp with a hand carved base in the form of a female nude. Base is 17" H.

A sculpted studio ceramic table lamp with an incised "X". Measures: Base height 20".

A hand thrown tapered ceramic table lamp with an apartment building and water tower motif. Designed by Bitossi, produced in Italy, circa 1950s.  

A sculptural table lamp with three candle like sockets surrounding a center stem that protrudes from a glass sphere globe.

When Marcel Breuer designed and furnished a house for an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, he intentionally left out lamps. In an interview in November of 1949, he sai...

EXQUISITE! HEIFETZ ABSTRACT, MODERN SCULPTED TABLE LAMP! INIMITABLE YASHA HEIFETZ STYLE! OILED OAK! BLACK CUBE BASE! Dimensions: 31" Tall By 18" Wide 1950s Heifetz Figural Wood Lamp...

Stylish midcentury table lamp of cerused oak, with milk glass diffuser, vintage burlap shade not included. Lamp design influenced by Heifetz, and Mont. ...

Impressively sculptural, black cerused table lamp. New linen shade with black contour. Newly rewired, circa 1960s.

Yasha Heifetz designed lamp for self manufacturing company, Heifetz Lighting Co. A tall sculptural biomorphic cerused oak wood table lamp on black painted wooden base. Carved from a single piece of oak and mounted on a rectangle tapered wood base. Features original leather lampshade with original black whip-stitch trim to accent its black wooden base. 2 pieces of damage to shade, both shown in images, are both not noticeable when the light is in use. Incredible condition for work created in the 1950's. Yasha Heifetz began Heifetz Lighitng Company in 1938. He rose to fame in 1950 when he co-sponsored and was an esteemed judge, alongside Marcel Breur and 2 directors of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) of NYC in a lighting design competition for MoMA itself. Their search was in response to a quest by both Heifetz and Breuer to find a well designed modern lamp. Both claimed at the time that all available options felt "flat and static" as most lamps design ethos felt more attention on the lamp rather than the lighting it emit. Over 600 designers participated in the competition; including Richard Schultz of Knoll and Alexey Brodovitch...

Hand hammered and bent copper and oak table lamp by Yasha Heifetz.