Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
19th Century Italian Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Wood
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Alabaster, Metal
Early 19th Century French Directoire Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
19th Century English Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
1920s American Edwardian Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
1890s Austrian Romantic Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 1900s Italian Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
1920s European Neoclassical Revival Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Tôle
Late 19th Century American Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Onyx, Metal
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Bronze, Metal
Early 20th Century French Neoclassical Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
19th Century French Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Brass
Mid-19th Century French Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 20th Century Arts and Crafts Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Bronze
Early 20th Century American Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
1920s American Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
1920s American Art Deco Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 20th Century French Neoclassical Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal, Bronze
19th Century Italian Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 20th Century Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
1860s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
1920s French Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Art Glass
19th Century American Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Ceramic
Early 1900s French Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 1900s French Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 20th Century Czech Art Deco Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Glass
18th Century Italian Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Brass, Wrought Iron, Metal
19th Century French Empire Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Ormolu
Early 20th Century Austrian Arts and Crafts Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Spelter
Early 20th Century Austrian Aesthetic Movement Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Spelter
1920s American Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 19th Century Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal, Tin
1910s Italian Art Nouveau Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 20th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Nickel, Metal, Brass
1920s French Art Deco Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Glass
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
1920s French Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
1920s French Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
1920s French Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
Early 20th Century English Regency Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Late 19th Century American Victorian Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Onyx, Metal
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Opaline Glass
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Late 19th Century Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 20th Century French Victorian Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal, Spelter
Early 1900s French Victorian Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
1920s French Other Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Mid-19th Century British Victorian Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal, Enamel
Early 20th Century European Classical Greek Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Metal
Early 1900s European Empire Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Milk Glass
1880s French Empire Antique Painted Metal Table Lamps
Porcelain
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Finding the Right table-lamps for You
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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