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This large pendant lamp was designed by Alessandro Pianon for Vistosi, Murano in the 1960s. This elegant slim pendant lamp is made of red opal Murano Glass a very high quality lamp i...

Ceiling lamp made with a circular white enamelled metal structure that supports an elliptical diffuser in two-tone, transparent and white Murano glass. Produced in Italy in the 70s b...

Pair of Italian wall light sconces handmade in Murano glass. The combination of two colour glass elements - opaline white and golden colour glass detail in the twist form. Each incl...

From our recent garden Acquisitions, Rare issue This handsome quality tall Chinese export pagoda top "Watch Tower" hand cast and hand painted lante...

Super exclusive wall sconces manufactured in the 50s by Voss Belysning, considered the Danish Stilnovo thanks to its fantastic designs and quality. Voss Belysning created luxury pie...

Small table lamp made with base and diffuser in red enamelled aluminum and flexible brass. Produced in Italy in the 1950s. Note: We try to offer our customers an excellent service...

Reading floor lamp in white lacquered metal and brass. ideal for reading corners. This lamp is from the early 1950s. This lamp has a maximum height of 207 cm and a length of 96 cm.

beautiful brass floor lamp with marble base from the early 1950s.

Whether you're strolling around the center of Milano, or browsing through the pages of Taschen's monumental "Entryways of Milan", chances are you'll spot quite a few of these lamps: ...

Charming Italian Mid-century Table Lamp. This Table Lamp was designed and manufactured in Italy during the 1970s. Black lampshade included. Thia Lamp is equipped with one light socke...

A small table totem lamp by ceramicist Bernard Rooke - double-sided - featuring Rooke's hieroglyphics and blue glass detail. Late 1960s, England. The lamp is in nice original condit...

Large, beautya and gorgeous German Mid-century crystal Kinkeldey Chandelier. This Chandelier was designed and manufactured in Germany during the 1970s by Kinkeldey Leuchten...

Ceramic vintage table lamp. Made of ceramic with a paper screen. Made by unknown manufacturer in Spain, circa 1970 In original condition, wear consistent with age and use, pres...

neoclassical table lamp in golden wrought iron circa 1950

This pair of mid century modern table lamps feature painted ceramic body with wood veneer detailing with a turned wood neck and base. Dimensions: 9w 9d 41h Shade diameter: 13.5 inch...

A vintage French faience vase turned table lamp with a lovely hand painted provincial floral design, wooden base and red silk shade.

We present an authentic piece of design, a desk lamp that exudes elegance and timeless charm. Showcasing exquisite details of meticulous craftsmanship, it combines the solidity of me...

Pendant lamp designed by Alvar Aalto, circa 1935 for the Savoy restaurant in Helsinki. In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful p...

Floor lamp designed by Miguel Mila', circa 1950. Manufactured by Tramo (Spain), circa 1950. First edition. In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful patina. Miguel Mila´ represents like no other person Spanish contemporary design. He belongs to the Pioneer's generation of the 1950s, and has seen how many of his pieces of furniture and lamps have become real classics. Miguel Mila´ was born in a Catalan aristocratic family with strong links with the artistic world (his ancestors assigned the Mila´ House, also known as La Pedrera, to Gaudi´), and started working as an interior designer in the architecture studio of his brother Alfonso Mila´ and Federico Correa. It was the end of the 1950s, a time of crisis when Spain hardly knew what Industrial Design was. There was practically no industry, everything was generally handmade. This framework marked the way Miguel Mila´ understood design, being sensitive to the pleasure of touching and closer to traditional techniques. Despite the shortage of objects, means and raw materials of the time, Miguel Mila´ started designing lamps and furniture, that he soon manufactured in his own company, Tramo. Miguel Mila´ set up this company with two friends, architects F. Ribas Barange´ and E. Pe´rez Ullibari. This is how Miguel Mila´ got involved with Industrial Design. Out of Tramo, apocopation of Trabajos molestos (annoying works, that is, all the things little brothers have to do), many projects came out. For instance, he developed the previous versions of the famous TMC and TMM lamps (1958 and 1961), timeless Classic designs that are still selling nowadays. Some time after, he set up his own Industrial and interior design studio. Miguel Mila´ participated with the designers and architects of that period in the first meetings in Barcelona to discuss on modernity in architecture, out of which came the question of how to promote design and implant its professional practice. These meetings culminated in the foundation of the ADI-FAD, together with Antoni de Moragas, Andre´ Ricard, Bohigas, Cirici Pellicer, Manel Cases and Rafael Marquina. From its beginnings, this association sought to foster Spanish design abroad, and to make a connection between young Spanish professionals and international design. "I am in reality a pre-Industrial designer- has Mila´ stated. I feel more comfortable with the technical procedures that allow correcting failures, experimenting during the process, and controlling it to the maximum. That is where my preference for noble materials comes from, the preference for materials that know how to age." This is the case, among others, of the wooden Cesta lamps...

Coco chandelier 9-light artistic white encased Murano glass, white lampshades by Multiforme The glass chandeliers Coco collection takes inspiration from Coco Chanel, the revolutionar...

Table lamp made of metal and yellow enamelled aluminium. The particularity of this lamp is given by its multifunctionality, as both the arm and the diffuser can be directed, and than...

Circa 1970s chandelier in chrome by Italian designer Gaetano Sciolari for Lightolier. Each of this fixture’s eight arms has an uplight and downlight and standard sized sockets for a ...

Vintage Midcentury Modern Italian Design 'QUADRIFOGLIO' Pendant Lamp by Gae Aulenti for Harvey Guzzini. Made in Italy, 1970's. Classic italian design on this wonderful pendant lamp. ...

Vintage XL Spherical Orange Resin Pendant Hanging Lamp. Made in Italy, 1960's. No maker markings. In the style of the sugarball lamps by Erco or by Rotaflex. XL orange resin sugarbal...

Small table lamp produced in Italy in the 1940s by Barovier and Toso. The table lamp is made of brass and Murano glass, with the particularity of having the upper glass adjustable to...

An Italian Art Deco six arm hand-blown glass Murano chandelier; the elegantly extended black glass arms surmounted by frosted glass lined bobeche, the whole supported by a central columnar stem support with the frosted glass motif echoed in the center and also at the canopy and triangular shaped base finial ending with brass detailing. A highly stylized piece which exudes the glamour of the Art Deco period; would elevate any interior setting today. The contrast of the variations of the black, frosted and clear glass are stunning. Newly re-wired for USA lighting...

Set of 2 wall lamps made in Italy in the 70s. Each individual wall lamp was made with a green enamelled brass wall plate and a chromed brass structure that supports a circular-shaped...

"Libellula" model table lamp made in Italy in the 1970s by Guzzini. The lamp has a circular base in black enamelled metal, arm in chromed metal and adjustable diffuser in white plast...

Beautiful glass vase. Originally for celery but perfect for flowers Acid etched ovals and cut glass stars. Folded over rim. Polished pontil mark on ba...

A set of two Amazing four armed chromed Trumpet lamp Reggiani/Sciolari style 1970s. Very rare and hard to find as a pair of two. Made probably in Italy, 1970s. Each Chandelier requir...

Liberty Style Chandelier Center Light Made around the turn of the century incorporating Classical style with Art Nouveau influences, the eight branch ar...

Pair of large Japanese Porcelain Cone Shape Vases with Imari decoration Important mounts in ormolu and gilded metal, the base decorated with a laurel wreath, the upper part of falling leaves and a frieze of knotted ribbon. The mounts signed Gagneau, 115 R. Lafayette. Circa 1860 With their original aluminium bulb cover and original gilding Vase it self Height 47 cm The Gagneau Company is one of the most famous lighting factories in Paris in the nine-teenth century, established in 1800 at 25 rue d'Enghien in Paris and later at 115 rue de Lafayette. She has participated in many exhibitions throughout this century. She began in 1819 with the Exposition des Produits de l'Industrie and later participated in the Universal Exhibitions where she was part of the jury in the category of art bronzes (class 25) at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1889. "Imari" was simply the trans-shipment port for Arita wares, from where they went to the for-eign trading outposts at Nagasaki. It was the kilns at Arita which formed the heart of the Japanese porcelain industry. Arita's kilns were set up in the 17th century, after kaolin was discovered in 1616. A popular legend attributes the discovery to an immigrant Korean potter, Yi Sam-Pyeong (1579–1655), although most historians consider this doubtful. After the discovery, some kilns began to produce revised Korean-style blue and white porcelains, known as Early Imari, or "Shoki-Imari". In the mid-17th century, there were also many Chinese refugees in northern Kyushu due to the turmoil in China, and it is said that one of them brought the overglaze enamel coloring technique to Arita. Thus Shoki-Imari developed into Ko-Kutani, Imari, and later Kakiemon, which are sometimes taken as a wider group of Imari wares. Ko-Kutani was produced around 1650 for both export and domestic market.Kutani Ware is characterized by vivid green, blue, purple, yellow and red colors in bold designs of landscapes and nature. Blue and white porcelain pieces continued to be produced and they are called Ai-Kutani. Ko-Kutani Imari for the export market usually adopted Chinese design structure such as kraak style, whereas Ai-Kutani for the domestic market were highly unique in design and are ac-cordingly valued very much among collectors. Ko-Kutani style evolved into Kakiemon-style Imari, which was produced for about 50 years around 1700. Kakiemon was characterized by crisp lines, and bright blue, red and green designs of dramatically stylized floral and bird scenes. Imari achieved its technical and aes-thetic peak in the Kakiemon style, and it dominated the European market. Blue and white Kakiemon is called Ai-Kakiemon. The Kakiemon style transformed into Kinrande in the 18th century, using underglaze blue and overglaze red and gold enamels, and later additional colors. Imari began to be exported to Europe when the Chinese kilns at Jingdezhen were damaged in the political chaos and the new Qing dynasty government halted trade in 1656–1684. Ex-ports to Europe were made through the Dutch East India Company, and in Europe the des-ignation "Imari porcelain" connotes Arita wares of mostly Kinrande Imari. Export of Imari to Europe stopped in mid-18th century when China resumed export to Europe, since Imari was not able to compete against Chinese products due to high labor costs. By that time, however, both Imari and Kakiemon styles were already so popular among Eu-ropeans that the Chinese export porcelain copied both, a type known as Chinese Imari. At the same time, European kilns, such as Meissen and English potteries such as Johnson Bros. and (Royal) Crown Derby, also imitated the Imari and Kakiemon styles. Export of Imari surged again in late 19th century (Meiji era) when Japonism flourished in Europe.Thus, in the western world today, two kinds of true Japanese Imari can...

A white Chinese export baluster form Samson Armorial lamp decorated with the Order of the Garter symbol in pink blue, and orange. Order of The Gar...

Beautiful green and white slag glass tulip pendant light. Art Nouveau style Brass hardware and trim. Original chain is 19" long. There was a time back in the 1950's that these shade...

Pair of Italian table lamps are made of solid brass and glass base with small brass legs. Decorated with blue colour Murano glass details. Both lamps are with new made satin finish b...

First we've seen A great multi legged "cricket" lighting lantern- first we've seen this style. This handsome Japanese hand painted quality lantern is a special find and an authent...

Large table lamp made of hand-worked layered Murano glass in aqua green color with a circular wooden base and metal accessories. The management of the light can be managed thanks to ...

Absolutely gorgeous Vintage Authentic Japanese 'Victorian Couple' Boudoir Table Lamp. The lamp Socket was Made in Canada 1920 - 1930 by Leviton 250W250V on the shell. Turn knob/Flat Paddle (old style...

DOB September 2005 38" to the top of the finials Figurative Maitland Smith monkey and elephant lamps. Intricate. Tasseled and decorated shades

Italian chandelier is made of solid clear Murano glass. The design is spiral form with triangular glass details mounted on metal framework. It is very heavy. Total height: 152 cm Hei...

Rare Floor lamp designed by Carlo Nason and produced in Italy in the 70s by Mazzega. The lamp was made with 2 Murano glass diffusers, the lower one in the shade of orange and the upp...

The neutral color palette paired with burnished brass is one reason this lamp by Stiffel is worth a second look. Its excellent condition is another. It is classic Hollywood Regency, ...

Wall lamps designed by the well-known designer Sergio Asti and produced by Artemide in the 60s. The wall lamp has a structure with curved brass bands which supports a spherical sandb...

Very unique set of three, four foot pendants. Built with an artistic assembly of multi sized wood beads stacked between 3/4" brass tubes. great for modern spaces and true Mid Century...

Cool Postmodern Italian Table Lamp. This Table Lamp was designed and manufactured in Italy during the 1980s. Thia Lamp is equipped with one light socket (E14). A professional elect...

Industrial lamp designed in France by unknown manufacturer. In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful patina.   

Mid-Century Modern sunburst brass wall lamp, circa 1960 Traditionally manufactured in France. By unknown designer. In original condition with minor wear consistent of age and us...

Table lamp with 1 E27 light designed by Vico Magistretti and produced in Italy in the 70s. The lamp was made of black plastic and can be directed via its flexible arm. Note: We tr...

Brass table lamp in the style of Tommaso Barbi, Italy, 1970s. Leather insert, signs of wear and tear, still beautiful and functional.

A decorative and functional hard to find pair (2) of handsome old "Iris and Flowers" garden lanterns in a convenient portable size. These rugged hand cast lanterns hand painted i...

Antique vintage Art Deco ceiling lamp. Made out of metal and glass. Made by unknown manufacturer in France, circa 1940. In original condition, with minor wear consistent with a...

French vintage metal and glass Art Deco hanging lamp. By unknown manufacturer from France, circa 1930. In original condition, with m...

Mid-Century Modern sunburst brass pendant lamp, circa 1960 Traditionally manufactured in France. By unknown designer. In original condition with minor wear consistent of age and...

Midcentury ceramic vase, Germany, 1960s. It can be mounted as a lamp as it was sometimes the case in this period (see last photo). Measures: Height 33cm, 13 in, diameter 23cm, 9 in.

Gatsby wall 5-light, white encased Murano glass. 'Reversed' decorative curl elements. White handmade organza plissé lampshades The collection Gatsby is the perfect combination of ele...

Capriccio chandelier, 5 lights, golden leaf artistic glass, with curly ornamental elements and blue details by Multiforme. Inspired by the Classic Venetian tradition it is characteri...

Early 20th century antique green lacquered metal ceiling lamp. By unknown manufacturer, France. In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a b...

Table lamp designed by Bernard-Albin Gras. Manufactured by Gras, (France), circa 1930. Aluminium and steel. In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, ...