Pair of Hans-Agne Jakobsson Floor Lamp in Brass & Rattan, Markaryd Sweden 1970s
By AB Markaryd, Hans-Agne Jakobsson
Located in Helsinki, FI
A refined and atmospheric pair of floor lamps designed by Swedish lighting master Hans-Agne Jakobsson for Markaryd executed in brass with elegant slatted wood shades and original acr...
Metal, Brass
4 Art Deco Floor Lamps in iron, Made in France, Year: 1920
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. 4 floor lamps Art Deco Material: Iron France 192...
Iron
Vintage Italian Space Age Tama Floor Lamp by Isao Hosoe for Valenti Luce
By Isao Hosoe
Located in Hamburg, DE
Valenti Tama lamp by Japanese designer Isao Hosoe. A classic from Valenti Italy as a floor, floor, pendant or even table lamp.
Plastic
Floor Lamp Art Deco 1930, German, Material: Wood, chrome and glass
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. Floor lamp You want to live in the golden years,...
Chrome
Pair of Art Deco Floor Lamps, France, Materials: Wood and Alabaster, 1930
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. 2 Floor lamps Art Deco Materials: wood and alaba...
Alabaster
Unusual Floor Lamp Art Deco 1920, German, Materials: Chrome and Glass
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. Floor lamp Art Deco Materials: chrome and glass ...
Chrome
Floor Lamp Art Deco 1930, France, Materials: Wood, Mirror and Bronze
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. Floor lamp Art Deco Materials: wood ,mirror, bro...
Bronze
Floor Lamp Art Deco 1930, France, Materials: Chrome, Wood and Glass
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. Floor lamp Art Deco Materials: wood, glass, chro...
Chrome
Floor Lamp Art Deco 1920, France, Materials: Wood, Glass and Chrome
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. Floor lamp Art Deco Materials: Wood, glass and c...
Chrome
2 Art Deco Floor Lamps, France, Materials: Glass and Chrome, 1930
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. 2 floor lamps Art Deco. Materials: wood, glass, ...
Chrome
2 Art Deco Floor Lamps, France, Materials: glass, wood and Chrome, 1930
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. 2 floor lamps Art Deco Materials: wood, glass, c...
Chrome
Pair Floor Lamps Art Deco 1920, France, Materials: Wood, Chrome and Glass
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. 2 floor lamps Art Deco Materials: wood, glass, c...
Chrome
2 Art Deco Floor Lamps, France, Materials: glass, wood and Chrome, 1920
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. 2 floor lamps Art Deco Materials: wood, glass, ch...
Chrome
Pair Floor Lamps Art Deco 1930, France, Materials: Wood, Chrome and Glass
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. 2 Floor lamps Art Deco Materials: wood, glass, c...
Chrome
Floor Lamp Art Deco 1930, Germany, Materials: Marble and Original Chromed Bronze
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
German 1930 You want to live in the golden years, those are the floor lamps that your project needs. We have specialized in Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles since 1982.
Marble, Chrome
Floor Lamp Art Deco 1930, France, Materials, Wood, Glass and Chrome Bronze
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. Floor lamp Art Deco Materials: wood, glass and c...
Glass, Wood
Pair of Art Deco Floor Lamps, France, Glass, Wood and Chrome, 1930
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. 2 floor lamps Art Deco Materials: wood, glass, c...
Chrome
Pair Floor Lamps Art Deco 1930, France, Materials: Wood, Chrome and glass tubes
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. 2 Floor lamps Art Deco Materials: wood, glass, c...
Chrome
Pair of Art Deco Floor Lamp Staggere, France, Materials: Glass and Chrome, 1930
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. 2 floor lamps Art Deco Materials: wood, glass, c...
Chrome
Original Stiffel Tension Rod Brass Floor Light
By Stiffel
Located in North Miami, FL
Vintage midcentury lamp from the 1950s consists of 6 illuminating arms on an all brass adjustable tension pole. A single dial switch turns on the floor lamp. The height is semi adjus...
Brass
$9,552Sale Price / set|49% Off
Pair 1970's Mid Century 106" Brutalist Palm Tree Torcheres attrib. Maison Jansen
By Maison Jansen
Located in Opa Locka, FL
Amazing Pair French 1970's Mid Century Modern / Brutalist Life Size [106 inches high] Palm Tree Torchere/ Floor Lamps.
Metal
Vintage Chrome and Glass Arc Lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Elevate your interior with this iconic Mid-Century Modern arc floor lamp, a masterful blend of Italian-inspired elegance and Space Age utility.
Marble, Chrome
Extremly Rare Brass Tension Lamp from Florian Schulz, Model S 100
By Florian Schulz
Located in Nürnberg, Bayern
Extremely rare and high quality brass lamp, Model S 100, 1970s-1980s. The lamp has a beautiful patina and a few traces of use, everything in the ready to live condition. Ceili...
Brass
20th Century Osvaldo Borsani for Tecno LT8 Sky-Ground Lamp 1960 Brass and Neon
By Tecno, Osvaldo Borsani
Located in Torino, Piemonte
Osvaldo Borsani in 1953, together with his brother Fulgenzio, realized his most complex project: a company idea named after the "techne" of the Greeks, which means both art and techn...
Brass, Metal
Floorlamps Model Molla by Leonardi Cesare, Stagi Franca, Italy, 1970s
By Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi, Lumenform
Located in Renens, CH
The Molla floor lamp by Leonardi Cesare, Stagi Franca for Lumenform is kept in place by the tension the flexible steel stem provides by clamping it between ceiling and floor. The ...
Metal
$26,400Sale Price|20% Off
Unique Monumental 102“ Foyer Lighting Object 32 Globes by Sarfatti attr., 1960s
Located in Niederdorfelden, Hessen
Manufacturer: Oluce attr. Style: mid-century modern, space age. Colours: clear, grey, chrome and golden.
Metal, Aluminum
Art Deco 1930, France, Materials: Wood, Glass and Chrome
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. 2 floor lamps Art Deco Materials: Wood, glass, c...
Chrome
Pair of Art Deco 1930, France, Materials: Glass and Chrome
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. 2 Floor lamps Art Deco Materials: wood, glass, ch...
Chrome
Art Deco, France, Materials, Iron , Wood, Glass and Chrome
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. 2 floor lamps Art Deco Materials: wood, glass, c...
Chrome
Pair of Art Deco 1930, France, Materials: Glass and Chrome
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Personalized Quotes: We would be delighted to advise you and provide a quote for any intervention according to your personal taste. 2 Floor lamps Art Deco Materials: wood, glass, c...
Chrome
Konsthantverk Bolb Table Lamp, Metal & Wood, Mid-Century Modern
By Konsthantverk Tyringe 1
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Table lamp model 1430-5 Bolb designed by Konsthantverk in 1926 and manufactured actually by themselves. The production of lamps, wall lights and floor lamps are manufactured using c...
Metal
Konsthantverk Bolb Table Lamp, Metal & Wood, Mid-Century Modern
By Konsthantverk Tyringe 1
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Table lamp model 1430-5 Bolb designed by Konsthantverk in 1926 and manufactured actually by themselves. The production of lamps, wall lights and floor lamps are manufactured using...
Metal
Konsthantverk KH#1 Iron Table Lamp, Mid-Century Modern, Sweden, 1926
By Konsthantverk Tyringe 1
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Table lamp model KH#1 designed by Konsthantverk in 1926 and manufactured actually by themselves. The production of lamps, wall lights and floor lamps are manufactured using crafts...
Brass
Mid-Century Modern KH#1 Table Lamp in Iron and Brass, Sweden
By Konsthantverk Tyringe 1
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Table lamp model KH#1 designed by Konsthantverk in 1926 and manufactured actually by themselves. The production of lamps, wall lights and floor lamps are manufactured using craftsma...
Brass
Mid-Century Swiss Space Age Mushroom Type 60 Table Lamp from Temde, 1960s
By Temde Leuchten
Located in Hamburg, DE
At the top there is a large metal funnel in the middle of which there is a version for the ceiling flooder. The foot is designed trumpet -shaped and offset from the floor with a shad...
Metal
Brushed and Bronzed Aluminum Italian Table Lamp, 1970s Attributed to Arredoluce
By Arredoluce
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful and large table lamp attributed to Arredoluce. It was produced in Italy during 1970s and it is attributed to Arredoluce. The light is adjustable and the bronzed aluminum...
Metal, Aluminum
Spiral Ceiling Lamp or Floor Lamp Chrome Metal, Italy Mid Century
By Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Vienna, AT
Two Spirali lights in different length from 1970, Italy Priced and sold individually. Versatile spiral lights that come in different length but otherwise identical. Great to combin...
Stainless Steel
$1,400Sale Price / item|20% Off
The Bride Table Lamp - White
By Mammalampa
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Design by Ieva Kaleja for "Mammalampa". The bride’s “dress” is created from paper presenting this traditional lamp material in an unusual solution. As light shines through the pape...
Metal
Monet Table lamp by Vico Magistretti for O-Luce, 1980s
By Vico Magistretti, O-Luce
Located in Rotterdam, NL
Monet table lamp, designed by Vico Magistretti in 1980 and manufactured by O-Luce. The lamp consists of a heavy, round metal base and a structure with four adjustable round aluminum...
Metal
$1,270 / item
Poul Henningsen Ph 4/3 Table Lamp
By Louis Poulsen, Poul Henningsen
Located in Berkeley, CA
The fixture is designed based on the principle of a reflective three-shade system, which directs the majority of the light downwards. The shades are made of metal and painted white t...
Chrome
$840Sale Price|20% Off
Industrial Architectural Drawing Lamp by Louis Baldinger
By Louis Baldinger & Sons
Located in San Diego, CA
A very cool architectural drawing desk lamp by Louis Baldinger, circa 1980s. The piece is in good vintage condition and made of green painted sheet metal with brass accents and bars....
Metal, Brass
'Kushi XL' Opaline Glass and Copper Table Lamp for KDLN
By KDLN, Alberto Saggia e Valerio Sommella
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Kushi XL' Opaline glass and copper table lamp for KDLN. Executed in mouth-blown double layer opaline glass with a metallic body available in three coating finishes: black, copper a...
Metal, Copper
'Kushi XL' Opaline Glass and Brass Table Lamp for Kdln
By KDLN, Alberto Saggia e Valerio Sommella
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Kushi XL' opaline glass and brass table lamp for KDLN. Executed in mouth-blown double layer opaline glass with a metallic body available in three coating finishes: black, copper an...
Metal, Brass
Large 'Kushi' Opaline Glass and Copper Table Lamp for Kdln
By KDLN, Alberto Saggia e Valerio Sommella
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large 'Kushi' opaline glass and copper table lamp for KDLN. Executed in mouth-blown double layer opaline glass topped with a metallic stem available in three coating finishes: black...
Metal, Copper
Large 'Kushi' Opaline Glass and Brass Table Lamp for KDLN
By Alberto Saggia e Valerio Sommella, KDLN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large 'Kushi' opaline glass and brass table lamp for KDLN. Executed in mouth-blown double layer opaline glass topped with a metallic stem available in three coating finishes: black,...
Metal, Brass
Small 'Kushi' Opaline Glass and Brass Table Lamp for KDLN
By KDLN, Alberto Saggia e Valerio Sommella
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Small 'Kushi' opaline glass and brass table lamp for KDLN. Executed in mouth-blown double layer opaline glass topped with a metallic stem available in three coating finishes: black,...
Metal, Brass
Small 'Kushi' Opaline Glass and Copper Table Lamp for KDLN
By KDLN, Alberto Saggia e Valerio Sommella
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Small 'Kushi' opaline glass and copper table lamp for KDLN. Executed in mouth-blown double layer opaline glass topped with a metallic stem available in three coating finishes: black...
Metal, Brass
Franceschina table lamp by Umberto Riva for Fontana Arte, 1980s
By Umberto Riva, Fontana Arte
Located in Rotterdam, NL
Franceschina table lamp designed by Umberto Riva and manufactured by Fontana Arte in 1989. The diffuser is made of satin opal blown glass and the base in opaque grey aluminium with ...
Aluminum, Brass
$1,541 / item
Poul Henningsen Ph 3/2 Glass Table Lamp
By Louis Poulsen, Poul Henningsen
Located in Berkeley, CA
The fixture is designed based on the principle of a reflective three-shade system, which directs the majority of the light downwards. The shades are made of handblown opal three-laye...
Chrome
$4,195 / item
Poul Henningsen Ph 4½-3½ Glass Table Lamp
By Louis Poulsen, Poul Henningsen
Located in Berkeley, CA
"The fixture is designed based on the principle of a reflective three-shade system, which directs the majority of the light downwards. The shades are made of handblown opal three-lay...
Chrome
'Kushi Mobile' Opaline Glass and Copper Portable Table Lamp for KDLN
By Alberto Saggia e Valerio Sommella, KDLN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Kushi Mobile' opaline glass and copper portable table lamp for KDLN. Executed in mouth-blown double layer opaline glass topped with a metallic stem available in three coating finis...
Metal, Copper
'Kushi Mobile' Opaline Glass and Brass Portable Table Lamp for KDLN
By Alberto Saggia e Valerio Sommella, KDLN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Kushi Mobile' opaline glass and brass portable table lamp for KDLN. Executed in mouth-blown double layer opaline glass topped with a metallic stem available in three coating finish...
Metal, Brass
'Kushi XL' Opaline Glass and Metal Table Lamp for KDLN in Black
By KDLN, Alberto Saggia e Valerio Sommella
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Kushi XL' opaline glass and metal table lamp for KDLN in black. Executed in mouth-blown double layer opaline glass with a metallic body available in three coating finishes: black, ...
Metal
Large 'Kushi' Opaline Glass and Metal Table Lamp for KDLN in Black
By Alberto Saggia e Valerio Sommella, KDLN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large 'Kushi' opaline glass and metal table lamp for KDLN in black. Executed in mouth-blown double layer opaline glass topped with a metallic stem available in three coating finishe...
Metal
Small 'Kushi' Opaline Glass and Metal Table Lamp for KDLN in Black
By KDLN, Alberto Saggia e Valerio Sommella
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Small 'Kushi' opaline glass and metal table lamp for KDLN in black. Executed in mouth-blown double layer opaline glass topped with a metallic stem available in three coating finishe...
Metal
'Kushi Mobile' Opaline Glass and Metal Portable Table Lamp for KDLN in Black
By Alberto Saggia e Valerio Sommella, KDLN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Kushi Mobile' Opaline glass and metal portable table lamp for KDLN in Black. Executed in mouth-blown double layer opaline glass topped with a metallic stem available in three coati...
Metal
Pair of Area Table Lamps by Mario Bellini for Artemide, Italy, 1980s
By Mario Bellini, Artemide
Located in Milano, IT
Pair of Area Table Lamps by Mario Bellini for Artemide, Italy, 1980s The Area 50 table lamps are part of a broader lighting series—comprising table, floor, wall, and ceiling fixture...
Ceramic, Plastic, PVC
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.
Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.
Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.
Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
The right table lamp, outwardly sculptural chandelier or understated wall pendant can work wonders for your home. While we’re indebted to thinkers like Thomas Edison for critically important advancements in lighting and electricity, we’re still finding new ways to customize illumination to fit our personal spaces all these years later. A wide range of antique and vintage lighting can be found on 1stDibs.
Today, lighting designers like the self-taught Bec Brittain have used the flexible structure of LEDs to craft glamorous solutions by working with what is typically considered a harsh lighting source. By integrating glass and mirrors, reflection can be used to soften the glow from LEDs and warmly welcome light into any space.
Although contemporary innovators continue to impress, some of the classics can’t be beat.
Just as gazing at the stars allows you to glimpse the universe’s past, vintage chandeliers like those designed by Gino Sarfatti and J. & L. Lobmeyr, for example, put on a similarly stunning show, each with a rich story to tell.
As dazzling as it is, the Arco lamp, on the other hand, prioritizes functionality — it’s wholly mobile, no drilling required. Designed in 1962 by architect-product designers Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, the piece takes the traditional form of a streetlamp and creates an elegant, arching floor fixture for at-home use.
There is no shortage of modernist lighting similarly prized by collectors and casual enthusiasts alike — there are Art Deco table lamps created in a universally appreciated style, the Tripod floor lamp by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Greta Magnusson Grossman's sleek and minimalist Grasshopper lamps and, of course, the wealth of mid-century experimental lighting that emerged from Italian artisans at Arredoluce, FLOS and many more are hallmarks in illumination innovation.
With decades of design evolution behind it, home lighting is no longer just practical. Crystalline shaping by designers like Gabriel Scott turns every lighting apparatus into a luxury accessory. A new installation doesn’t merely showcase a space; carefully chosen ceiling lights, table lamps and floor lamps can create a mood, spotlight a favorite piece or highlight your unique personality.
The sparkle that your space has been missing is waiting for you amid the growing collection of antique, vintage and contemporary lighting for sale on 1stDibs.
The alluring pendant light exemplifies the designer’s winsome mid-career work.
Patrizio Chiarparini of Brooklyn’s Duplex gallery sheds light on the lasting legacy of Italy’s postwar furniture boom.
There are many lessons to be learned from the lofts, apartments and townhouses of architects and decorators in Manhattan and beyond.
Having created extravagant homes for reality TV’s biggest stars, the designer is stepping into the spotlight with his first book.
The Louisiana-born and -bred architect talks to 1stdibs about the art of making timeless places that matter.
The Palm Springs interior decorator developed a mid-century style that defined the vacation homes of celebrities and other notables, including Bob Hope and Lucille Ball.
The houses from this New York studio cloak modernist tendencies within what are often more traditional trappings.
In the market for a fantastic fixture from the 1940s, ’50s or ’60s? Here are some names to know.