Origami Paper and Mahogany "96 Molecules" Floor Lamp by Aqua Creations
By Aqua Creations
Located in linden, NJ
A free standing floor lamp made of CNC-milled mahogany wood and a hand-folded origami paper lampshade.
Mahogany, Paper
Le Klint Danish Modern Origami Floor Lamp
By Le Klint
Located in Astoria, NY
Danish Modern Le Klint floor lamp with origami shade model 102 raised on a chrome metal base.
Chrome
Sold
H 66 in W 26 in D 29 in
Italian Sculptural White Lucite Origami Trapeziodal Shaped and Stainless Steel Floor Lamp
Located in North Miami, FL
What a great Italian floor lamp!!! The base is round lucite with stainless steel appointments.
Stainless Steel
Mid-Century New Hope School Geometric Walnut Floor Lamp in Silver Ceruse
Located in New York, NY
A Mid-Century Modernist New Hope School origami-style geometric floor lamp. A walnut base treated with silver cerusing displays wonderful grain throughout.
Walnut
Danish Modern Le Klint Origami Floor Lamp
By Le Klint
Located in Astoria, NY
Danish Modern Le Klint floor lamp with origami shade model 102 raised on a chrome metal base.
Chrome
1950s Modern Japanese Origami Floor Lamp
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in San Diego, CA
Origami metal form floor lamp with teak base from the Mid-Century.
Metal
The modern floor lamp is an evolution of torchères — tall floor candelabras that originated in France as a revolutionary development in lighting homes toward the end of the 17th century. Owing to the advent of electricity and the introduction of new materials as a part of lighting design, floor lamps have taken on new forms and configurations over the years.
In the early 1920s, Art Deco lighting artisans worked with dark woods and modern metals, introducing unique designs that still inspire the look of modern floor lamps developed by contemporary firms such as Luxxu.
Popular mid-century floor lamps include everything from the enchanting fixtures by the Italian lighting artisans at Stilnovo to the distinctly functional Grasshopper floor lamp created by Scandinavian design pioneer Greta Magnusson-Grossman to the Paracarro floor lamp by the Venetian master glass workers at Mazzega. Among the more celebrated names in mid-century lighting design are Milanese innovators Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, who, along with their eldest brother, Livio, worked for their own firm as architects and designers. While Livio departed the practice in 1952, Achille and Pier Giacomo would go on to design the Arco floor lamp, the Toio floor lamp and more for legendary lighting brands such as FLOS.
Today’s upscale interiors frequently integrate the otherworldly custom lighting solutions created by a wealth of contemporary firms and designers such as Spain’s Masquespacio, whose Wink floor lamps integrate gold as well as fabric fringes.
Visual artists and industrial designers have a penchant for floor lamps, possibly because they’re so often a clever marriage of design and the functions of lighting. A good floor lamp can change the mood of any room while adding a touch of elegance to your entire space. Find yours now on 1stDibs.
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