Brass Lamp Base Antique
Early 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Brass Lamp Base Antique
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Metal, Brass
1920s Danish Art Deco Brass Lamp Base Antique
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Brass
18th Century Dutch Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass, Bronze
1920s American Art Deco Brass Lamp Base Antique
Jade, Brass
1890s English Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
Early 20th Century American Brass Lamp Base Antique
Early 20th Century British Brass Lamp Base Antique
Metal, Brass
Early 20th Century Italian Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
Early 19th Century Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
19th Century French Industrial Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
19th Century English Brass Lamp Base Antique
19th Century American Victorian Brass Lamp Base Antique
Early 20th Century American Neoclassical Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
1860s English Early Victorian Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
19th Century English Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
Early 20th Century Brass Lamp Base Antique
Early 20th Century American Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
19th Century English Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
Early 20th Century Czech Brass Lamp Base Antique
Crystal, Marble, Brass
19th Century British Victorian Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
Early 20th Century British Edwardian Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass, Copper
Late 19th Century Brass Lamp Base Antique
Marble, Brass
1670s Italian Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
19th Century English Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
Early 20th Century French Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass, Tin
Late 19th Century British Victorian Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
Early 20th Century American Brass Lamp Base Antique
Metal, Lead, Wire
Early 1900s American American Colonial Brass Lamp Base Antique
Glass
1920s American Art Deco Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
Early 20th Century American Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
Early 20th Century American Brass Lamp Base Antique
Crystal, Marble, Brass
Early 20th Century American Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
Early 20th Century Chinese Brass Lamp Base Antique
Soapstone, Brass
Early 20th Century American Brass Lamp Base Antique
Cedar
Early 20th Century American Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
19th Century Chinese Brass Lamp Base Antique
1870s Brass Lamp Base Antique
Ceramic, Silk
1920s American Art Deco Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
19th Century English Brass Lamp Base Antique
1860s English High Victorian Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
Mid-19th Century French Brass Lamp Base Antique
Marble, Brass
Early 19th Century Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Brass Lamp Base Antique
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
Early 19th Century French Régence Brass Lamp Base Antique
Marble, Brass
19th Century Brass Lamp Base Antique
Delft
Early 20th Century American Baroque Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass, Bronze
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass, Bronze
1910s American Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
Late 19th Century European Brass Lamp Base Antique
Brass
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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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