Modern Table Lamps
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Murano Glass
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Table Lamps
Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
1990s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Early 2000s European Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Early 2000s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Aluminum
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Table Lamps
Crystal, Onyx, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Crystal, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Table Lamps
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Blown Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Table Lamps
Marble, Statuary Marble, Brass, Stainless Steel
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Table Lamps
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Table Lamps
Marble, Statuary Marble, Brass, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Murano Glass
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Cotton, Paper
2010s British Modern Table Lamps
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary English Modern Table Lamps
Slate
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Alabaster, Brass
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Table Lamps
Crystal, Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Crystal, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Table Lamps
Silk, Blown Glass
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
1950s Italian Vintage Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
2010s Taiwanese Modern Table Lamps
Concrete
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Slate, Metal
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Steel, Brass, Silver Leaf
1990s Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Opaline Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
2010s British Modern Table Lamps
Nylon
1960s French Vintage Modern Table Lamps
Crystal, Brass, Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Table Lamps
Gold Leaf, Bronze
Late 20th Century Modern Table Lamps
Horn, Giltwood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Table Lamps
Acrylic, Polyester
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Table Lamps
Acrylic, Polyester