Superb Art Deco Articulated Bankers Brass Desk Lamp
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Superb Art Deco Articulated Bankers Brass Desk Lamp, A very good looking and decorative piece, the lamp has an industrial style angle adjustment at the base, with a pivoted sweeping...
Brass
1920's Art Deco Banker Table Lamp , Czechoslovakia
Located in Praha, CZ
High quality design, fully functional. The lamp has a very interesting porcelain-brass switch in a minimalist design. New wiring. Brass polished.
Brass, Enamel
Banker table lamp with glass shade vienna around 1920s
Located in Wien, Au
Banker table lamp with glass shade vienna around 1920s Brass polished and stove enameled
Brass
Streamline Modern Chrome & Enameled Bankers Desk Lamp by Radionic
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Streamline Art Deco styled chrome & enameled Bankers Desk Lamp by Radionic Trans Co. The lamp features Enameled steel shade with polished chrome-plated end caps mounted on graceful c...
Metal
1930's Art Deco Banker Table Lamp , Czechoslovakia
Located in Praha, CZ
Art Deco table lamp. Made in Czechoslovakia,in the 1930's Made of metal and brass. Repolished, cleaned, in original condition. Fully functional.
Metal
Golden Bankers Table Lamp on Marble Foot, 1960s
Located in Nürnberg, Bayern
Lovely Elegant Brass and Marble Table Lamp, 1960s The lamp comes with E27 Edison screw fit bulb holder. They are with original wiring, in working condition.
Marble, Metal, Brass
1930s Art Deco Brass Banker Table Lamp, Czechoslovakia
Located in Praha, CZ
Beautiful set of two Art Deco / Functionalist table or bedside lamps. Set was cleaned, polished and rewired: 1x40W US plug adapter included
Metal
1940s Art Deco Nickel Banker Table Lamp, Czechoslovakia
Located in Praha, CZ
- Repolished - enameled metal shade - 1x E26 -E27bulb - US wiring compatible
Nickel
Art deco nickel-plated banker table lamp vienna around 1920s
Located in Wien, Au
Art deco nickel-plated banker table lamp vienna around 1920s New nickel-plated
Brass, Nickel
Bauhaus Swiveling nickel - plated banker table lamp germany around 1920s
By Bauhaus Deutschland
Located in Wien, Au
Bauhaus Swiveling nickel - plated banker table lamp germany around 1920s Deep from: 18-35cm
Nickel
Copper Banker's Desk Lamp, dark green shade, England 1930's
Located in London, Fitzrovia
A beautiful copper banker's desk Lamp, with an adjustable pivoting dark green shade, England 1930's.
Copper
Unusual Art Deco Bankers Desk Lamp, in Copper and Brass
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Unusual Art Deco Bankers Desk Lamp, in Copper and Brass A very good looking and decorative piece, the lamp has a heavy round base made in both copper and brass, it has a traditional...
Brass
Swiveling Banker table lamp with green glass shade vienna around 1920s
Located in Wien, Au
Swiveling Banker table lamp with green glass shade vienna around 1920s Extraordinary table lamp Polished and stove enameled Deep from: 16cm up to 35cm
Brass
Solid Banker table lamp with original glass shade vienna around 1920s
Located in Wien, Au
Solid Banker table lamp with original glass shade vienna around 1920s Polished and stove enameled
Brass
Solid Banker table lamp with original glass shade vienna around 1920s
Located in Wien, Au
Solid Banker table lamp with original glass shade vienna around 1920s Brass polished and stove enameled
Brass
Brass and Green Glass Banker’s Desk Lamp, Mid-Century Modern, 1960
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Brass and Green Glass Banker’s Desk Lamp A beautiful vintage barrister’s brass desk lamp, with its original green glass lampshade which has a white reflective underside The lamp sha...
Brass
Vintage Scandinavian Bankers Desk or Table Lamps in Brass & Green Glass
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A pair of matching fully adjustable table or desk lights executed in solid brass and features cased green glass shades with opaline interiors. Model 072-B designed and made by Scan L...
Brass
Robert Sonneman for George Kovacs PostModern Deco Sleek Chrome Bankers Desk Lamp
By Robert Sonneman, George Kovacs
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
1980’s, award winning, postmodern, Memphis.Era, modernist, re-imagined art deco, bankers desk touch lamp Designed by Robert Sonneman for George Kovacs, This stunning, elegant lamp...
Chrome
Art Specialty Co Flexo Banker Desk Lamp Flying Saucer Shade Fluorescent Dazor
By Dazor
Located in Forest Grove, PA
A substantial "flying saucer" desk lamp by Art Specialty Co., Flexo from the 19450s. Unmarked, the bottom plate matches the plates on other, similar Flexo lamps. The lamp is in the o...
Metal
Vintage Mid Century Modern Art Deco Metal Bronze Finish Bankers Table Desk Lamp
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Mid Century Modern Art Deco Metal Bronze Finish Bankers Table Desk Lamp. Circa Mid 20th Century. Measurements: 16" H x 19.5" W x 7" D. {3-Way (No)}, (Location: Section 2) S...
Metal
Antique Porcelain Hand-Painted Urn Table Lamp, Victorian Decor
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
They created props for two Oscar-winners, The Godfather and The Hustler, as well as beautiful green-glass bankers' lamps for the hit film Network. Later City Knickerbocker created pr...
Ceramic, Porcelain
An Art Deco Adjustable Chrome Bankers Desk Lamp, on a circular base 1920's
Located in Reading, Berkshire
An Art Deco Adjustable Chrome Bankers Desk Lamp On A Circular Base. Manufactured In 1920's.
Chrome
Early 20th Century Japanned Scissor Arm Lamp With Glass Shade
Located in Dekalb, IL
The green glass shade is similar in color to those on banker's lamps and features a ribbed exterior that appears to be inspired by a scallop shell.
Metal
Petrol Green Enamel Vintage Industrial Banker Light Table Desk Light by Erpe
By Erpé
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Belgian petrol green enamel desk light by Erpe, Belgique 2,5 meter black cotton flex, plug and switch Also, available with US/UK plug Weight: 2.30 kg / 5.1 lb Priced per individua...
Enamel, Iron
Art Deco Adjustable Chrome Bankers Desk Light with Inkwell or Pen Desk Tidy 1920
Located in London, GB
Discovered on our travels in Italy and still yet to be seen again, this sleek 1920’s Art Deco chrome Bankers desk light with ink well or pen holder is a fine example of the period. T...
Chrome
Tiffany Style Stained Glass Table Lamp or Desk Lamp, 1950s
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Fabulous, tall Tiffany Style stained Glass and bronze adjustable Banker’s desk lamp or Table lamp, France, 1950-1959.
Bronze
Vintage German Black Bank Lamp, 1930s
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Vintage bankers bauhaus table lamp made in Germany during the 1930s.
Enamel, Iron
Vintage Green Enamel Bank Lamp, 1930s
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Vintage bankers bauhaus table lamp made in Germany during the 1930s.
Enamel, Iron
Gerald Thurston Brass Table Lamp for Lightolier
By Gerald Thurston
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gerald Thurston brass double shade table lamp for Lightolier, U.S.A. Reminiscent of a bankers counter or desk lamp impressive scale with double light sockets and signs of use and wear.
Brass
Vintage Modern Frederick Cooper Brass Adjustable Pharmacy Desk Lamp, Chicago
By Frederick Cooper
Located in San Carlos, CA
This example features a weighted oval brass base, height-adjustable gooseneck column, and a tilting rectangular shade, true to the classic banker's/pharmacy lamp silhouette. The bra...
Brass
$632Sale Price|20% Off
Robert Sonneman Style Black and Glass Table Lamp
Located in Pasadena, TX
This is a Robert Sonneman Style lamp. It's a banker's desk lamp thats black with a glass top for a shade.
Metal
Antique Art Deco Brass Copper Military Desk Lamp, c.1940
Located in London, GB
An elegantly formed copper bankers desk lamp made in England. c.1940 Fully original, heavy cast base with square formed upright and glass shade.
Brass
1940s Giovanni Michelucci Patinated Brass Ministerial Desk Lamp for Lariolux
By Lariolux, Giovanni Michelucci
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Their most iconic products were ministerial or banker's desk lamps, featuring polished chrome or brass, adjustable shades, and bakelite switches.
Brass
1940s Giovanni Michelucci Patinated Brass Ministerial Desk Lamp for Lariolux
By Lariolux, Giovanni Michelucci
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Their most iconic products were ministerial or banker's desk lamps, featuring polished chrome or brass, adjustable shades, and bakelite switches.
Brass
Mid Century Cobalt and Chrome Glass Library Desk Lamp
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Mid Century Cobalt and Chrome Glass Library Desk Lamp A beautiful quality fully adjustable Banker’s or Barrister’s desk lamp, with a Cobalt blue glass lampshade which has a white re...
Chrome
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Philips Desk Lamp Collectable & Cool
By Phillips
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely Vintage Philips Art Deco style bankers desk lamp which is very collectable and cool This is one of the coolest and most iconic lamps...
Plastic
Antique American Amronlite Sheaffer Fountain Pen Desk Lamp Deluxe
By Amronlite
Located in Forney, TX
A fine antique American Art Deco Amronlite Sheaffer Fountain Pen banker's style desk lamp deluxe, circa late 1920s, featuring beautifully patinated original brass shade, rising on fi...
Marble, Metal, Brass
$383Sale Price|63% Off
Mid-Century German Modern Gold Brass Desk Lamp with Chain from Karstadt AG
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
This elegant, brass banker-type desk lamp was produced by the German manufacturer Karstadt AG in the 1970s.
Metal, Brass
Original Saturday Evening Poster Newsstand 1940 vintage poster linen-backed
Located in Spokane, WA
A delighted older gentleman, visibly moved, sings "Happy Birthday to You" into a candlestick telephone while musical notes swirl around a green banker's lamp on his desk. The full ma...
Offset
Robert Sonneman Cascading Pendant Chandelier
By Robert Sonneman
Located in Los Angeles, CA
RS: Orbiter, L’arc, Feather, Big Mack, Floating Glass, Vienna, Bankers Lamp, Plinth, and Quattro. You also did furniture design.
Aluminum, Brass
$680Sale Price|20% Off
Postmodern Black & Brass Halogen Desk Lamp Inspired by Sonneman
By George Kovacs, Robert Sonneman, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage Postmodern desk or bankers lamp in the style of Robert Sonneman for George Kovacs from the 1980s.
Brass, Metal
Well-crafted antique and vintage table lamps do more than provide light; the right fixture-and-table combination can add a focal point or creative element to any interior.
Proper table lamps have long been used for lighting our most intimate spaces. Perfect for lighting your nightstand or reading nook, table lamps play an integral role in styling an inviting room. In the years before electricity, lamps used oil. Today, a rewired 19th-century vintage lamp can still provide a touch of elegance for a study.
After industrial milestones such as mass production took hold in the Victorian era, various design movements sought to bring craftsmanship and innovation back to this indispensable household item. Lighting designers affiliated with Art Deco, which originated in the glamorous roaring ’20s, sought to celebrate modern life by fusing modern metals with dark woods and dazzling colors in the fixtures of the era. The geometric shapes and gilded details of vintage Art Deco table lamps provide an air of luxury and sophistication that never goes out of style.
After launching in 1934, Anglepoise lamps soon became a favorite among modernist architects and designers, who interpreted the fixture as “a machine for lighting,” just as Le Corbusier had reimagined the house as “a machine for living in.” The popular task light owed to a collaboration between a vehicle-suspension engineer by the name of George Carwardine and a West Midlands springs manufacturer, Herbert Terry & Sons.
Some mid-century modern table lamps, particularly those created by the likes of Joe Colombo and the legendary lighting artisans at Fontana Arte, bear all the provocative hallmarks associated with Space Age design. Sculptural and versatile, the Louis Poulsen table lamps of that period were revolutionary for their time and still seem innovative today.
If you are looking for something more contemporary, industrial table lamps are demonstrative of a newly chic style that isn’t afraid to pay homage to the past. They look particularly at home in any rustic loft space amid exposed brick and steel beams.
Before you buy a desk lamp or table lamp for your living room, consider your lighting needs. The Snoopy lamp, designed in 1967, or any other “banker’s lamp” (shorthand for the Emeralite desk lamps patented by H.G. McFaddin and Company), provides light at a downward angle that is perfect for writing, while the Fontana table lamp and the beloved Grasshopper lamp by Greta Magnusson-Grossman each yield a soft and even glow. Some table lamps require lampshades to be bought separately.
Whether it’s a classic antique Tiffany table lamp, a Murano glass table lamp or even a bold avant-garde fixture custom-made by a contemporary design firm, the right table lamp can completely transform a room. Find the right one for you on 1stDibs.
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