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French Art Deco Wrought Iron Table Lamp, Opaque Glass Shade, 1920
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
Kiss, Raymond Subes, and Charles Piguet
Ideal for collectors of Art Deco lighting, French modernist
Category
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Wrought Iron
Pair of modernist art deco style wall lights dating from the 80s
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in LE CANNET, FR
Pair of wall lights in chrome metal and thick glass blades dating from the 80s.
French interior
Category
Vintage 1980s French Art Deco Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Chrome
Modernist 24 Karat Gold
Exploded Starburst Sconce W/ Quartz by Claude Boeltz
By Claude Victor Boeltz
Located in New York, NY
This spectacular Modernist 24 Karat Gold & Exploded Bronze Starburst Sconce W/Quartz Crystal by
Category
20th Century French Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Quartz, Gold, Bronze
Pair of Modernist Art Deco Wall Sconces by Genet et Michon
By Gênet et Michon
Located in Bridgewater, CT
Pair of Genet
Michon French Art Deco wall sconces in chrome and clear glass, circa 1930s.
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Chrome
Pair of Modernist Sconces in Exploded 24K Gilt Bronze
Crystal by Claude Boeltz
By Claude Victor Boeltz
Located in New York, NY
This stunning Pair of Modernist Sconces in Exploded 24K Gilt Bronze & Crystal by Claude Boeltz
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Crystal, Gold, Bronze
Pair of Modernist Sconces Attributed Maison Arlus in Brass and Opaline Glass
By Arlus
Located in Merida, Yucatan
opaline glass.
Made in France, circa 1950s.
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
Pair of Modernist Sconces in Exploded 24K Gilt Bronze
Crystal by Claude Boeltz
By Claude Victor Boeltz
Located in New York, NY
This stunningly ornate Pair of Modernist Sconces in Exploded 24Karat Gilt Bronze and Quartz Crystal
Category
20th Century French Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Crystal, Gold, Bronze
4 modernist art deco style wall lights chrome and glass dating from the 80s
By Atelier Jean Perzel
Located in LE CANNET, FR
Luxury 4 wall lights in chrome metal and thick glass blades dating from the 80s.
French interior
Category
Vintage 1980s French Art Deco Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Chrome
Midcentury Teal Blue Diablo Table Lamp by Solbergs Fabrikker, 1950s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A Norwegian take on Stilnovo and the French Modernist movement within lighting design. This stylish
Category
Vintage 1950s Norwegian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum, Brass, Iron
Svend Aage Holm Sørensen Pastel Red Diablo Table Lamp, 1950s
By Svend Aage Holm Sørensen
Located in Esbjerg, DK
in Sweden during the 1950s in a style reminiscent of French Modernist and Italian Stilnovo lighting
Category
Vintage 1950s Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Aluminum, Brass
Daum, Modernist Sculptural Lamp, France, 1974
By Daum
Located in New York, NY
An irregularly shaped hexagonal lamp in lavender hued crystal, a half-century old creation of the famed glass firm Daum that seeks to convey motion itself, as if depicting all sides ...
Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal
Daum, Modernist Sculptural Lamp, France, 1974
By Daum
Located in New York, NY
An irregularly shaped hexagonal lamp in lavender hued crystal, a half-century old creation of the famed glass firm Daum that seeks to convey motion itself, as if depicting all sides ...
Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal
Boris Lacroix 1930s Modernist Lamp
By Jean Boris Lacroix
Located in New York, NY
The French designer Jean-Boris Lacroix was best known in the 1930s, as he is today, as a designer
Category
Vintage 1930s French Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Nickel
Modernist Task Light or Clamp Table Lamp by Bernard-Albin Gras for Gras, 1920s
By Lampe Gras, Bernard-albin Gras
Located in Munich, DE
Articulated modernist task lamp or clamp table light. Extremely rare shorter execution of the model
Category
Vintage 1920s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Steel, Iron
Chrome Art Deco Modernist Desk Table Lamp Lacquered Articulated Lighting French
By Eileen Gray
Located in Dorking, Surrey
rest of the chrome is in very good condition.
Being manufactured in France, this lamp still bares a two
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Other, Chrome
French Holophane Ceiling Light 1930s Modernist Art Deco Lighting Milk Glass
By Holophane
Located in Crespieres, FR
Superb 1930s large French Holophane ceiling light of a modernist Art Deco design. The light is made
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Aluminum
French Modernist Wall Sconce Edited by Lita Model 2500
By Lita
Located in Berlin, DE
Very beautiful minimalistic French modernist wall sconce attributed Boris J. Lacroix edited by Lita
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass, Aluminum
Iconic 1940 Art Deco Modernist Desk Table Lamp Lighting Eileen Gray Jumo French
By Eileen Gray
Located in Dorking, Surrey
France, this lamp still bares a two pin plug, i.e. not earthed, so will need rewiring.
Measurements
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass, Other
A Spare, French Art Deco/Modernist Lighting Fixture with Glass Ball Shades
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ornamentation and embellishment were stripped away in the 1930's as the naturalist and organic shapes of the earlier time fell out of fashion. Form and function were championed in a...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Brass
French Modernist Pendant
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A black and brass three light french modernist pendant with glass shades. Newly wired
Category
Mid-20th Century French Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Glass
$1,400
French Modernist Floor Lamp
By La Maison Desny
Located in Den Bommel, NL
Fantastic and monumental designed floorlamp ( without lamp shade ). This lamp is of such a high craftmanship and has many similarities on several points with the works of Desny that ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Floor Lamps
$20,000
French Modernist Table Lamp, 1930s
Located in Paris, France
French
Modernist lamp, circa 1935.
Elongated square shape.
In stainless and brushed steel, with
Category
Mid-20th Century French Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Stainless Steel, Steel
Modernist French Sconces
Located in Miami, FL
Rare pair of modernist French sconces.
Three lights, 60 watts max per bulb
US rewired and working
Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
$2,450 / set
1940s French Modernist Nickel Lamp
Located in London, GB
A French 1940s well designed nickel adjustable table lamp, in the style of Jacques Adnet. Some
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Nickel
French Modernist Cubic Floor Lamp c. 1940s
By Charles Dudouyt
Located in Wembley, GB
A modernist cubic beech floor lamp with integrated half-height table in the manner of Charles
Category
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Beech
French Art Deco/Modernist Chrome Ceiling Fixture
Located in San Francisco, CA
Here's a sleek, Modernist French fixture in the minimalist tradition of "less is more." Just the
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Flush Mount
French Brass Modernist Abstract Skeletal Fish Lamp
Located in Mount Penn, PA
Really cool sculptural brass X-ray fish lamp with exaggerated bones inside body. Great masterful design. Perfect accent lamp that is both functional and a great sculpture as well. Th...
Category
Late 20th Century French Organic Modern Table Lamps
French Modernist Chrome Column Table Lamp, circa 1970s
Located in New York, NY
1970s French Modernist chrome column lamp with spayed legs. Newly wired for US specifications
Category
Vintage 1970s French Table Lamps
Materials
Chrome
French Art Deco Six Arm Modernist Chandelier
Located in Coral Gables, FL
This 1930’s French art deco modernist chandelier has it in “sixes”. The bright nickel body hangs
Category
20th Century French Chandeliers and Pendants
French modernist desk lamp. Charlotte Perriand for Jumo 1950.
By Charlotte Perriand
Located in Karlsruhe, DE
French modernist desk lamp. Charlotte Perriand for Jumo 1950.
Original french bulb bayonet
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
French Art Deco Table Lamp Fer Forge Modernist Glass
By Muller Frères
Located in Oakland, CA
Unique French table lamp with stylized moulded glass after Degue or Muller Freres. Simple elegant
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Iron
Brass and Frosted Glass French Modernist Arlus Floor Lamp
By Arlus
Located in New York, NY
The black and brass tripod open stand supporting a tall cylindrical frosted glass shade.
Category
Vintage 1960s French Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass
Pair of Modernist French Graduated Dome Pendants
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Aluminum half sphere spun and polished dome pendants. Three-tiered, two sockets per. Priced individually.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Aluminum
$2,500 / item
French Modernist Art Deco Pendant Light, circa 1930
Located in London, GB
A French modernist Art Deco pendant light with frosted glass panels that have clear glass stripes
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Glass
French Art Deco Modernist Chandelier by Atelier Petitot
By Atelier Petitot
Located in Coral Gables, FL
A French Art Deco nickel-plated metal frame chandelier by Atelier Petitot with frosted glass panels
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Metal
Maison Desny Art Deco Modernist Nickeled Metal Table Lamp, French, 1930s
By La Maison Desny
Located in Aix En Provence, FR
An Art Deco nickeled metal table lamp designed by Maison Desny in France in 1930s. A very modernist
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Nickel
French Modernist Crystal Art Deco Lamp, Jean Sala for St. Louis
Located in San Francisco, CA
The Compagnie des Cristalleries de St. Louis was founded in the Lorraine region of France in 1767
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal
Spare Art Deco/Modernist 5-Light French Chrome Chandelier
Located in San Francisco, CA
This cleanly minimalist French Modernist delight hangs 23 inches down and is about 30 across. It's
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
French Art Deco Nickel and Glass Modernist Ceiling Light
Located in Coral Gables, FL
This elegant French art deco modernist ceiling light is from the 1930’s. The satin polished nickel
Category
20th Century French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Metal
Stunning and Majestic French Modernist Floor Lamp in Brass and Walnut
Located in Portland, OR
Stunning and Majestic French Floor Lamp in Brass and Walnut. Sold without the shade. The lamp head
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass
Oak Modernist Lamp
By Jean Lambert-Rucki
Located in Newburgh, NY
Finely carved modernist lamp in the style of Lambert Rucki, all oak and rewired with original
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Oak
$2,500
Modernist Nickel lamp
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful Modernist lamp with a warm polished nickel patina, the lamp has a very long neck
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
$5,400
Modernist Bobbin Floor Lamp
By Charles Dudouyt
Located in Wembley, GB
A modernist bobbin-turned beech floor lamp in the manner of Charles Dudouyt. French, c. 1940s
Category
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Beech
Glass - Nikel-Plated Art Deco Modernist French Ceiling Lamp
By Atelier Petitot
Located in Zaventem, Belgium
France.
Four electric bulbs.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Nickel
A Modernist floor lamp
Located in New York, NY
A Modernist adjustable floor lamp, on a very heavy plexiglass base, French, circa 1970.
Category
20th Century French Floor Lamps
French Art Deco 1940
s Modernist Six Light Ceiling Fixture
Located in Coral Gables, FL
This 1940’s French art deco modernist ceiling light announces the shift from earlier fixtures and
Category
20th Century French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Pair of French Art Deco Modernist Table Uplighter Lamps, Chrome Glass Lights
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Bremen, DE
Pair of extremely rare French Art Deco modernist table lamps made of chrome, glass and brass
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Brass, Chrome
1930
s Modernist Lamp
Located in Paris, FR
1930's modernist lamp, in the style of Jacques Adnet, in glass and steel.
Category
Vintage 1940s French Table Lamps
Materials
Steel
$3,500
Asymmetrical French Art Deco/Modernist Chandelier with Exceptional Glass Shades
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Unusual" practically rhymes with "French," non? The overall shape of this striking, rather
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Glass
Nickel plated modernist uplighter
Located in London, GB
A good quality art deco nickel plated uplighter. With numbered plaque to base. Rewired.
Category
20th Century French Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal
Pair of French Glass, Chrome, Cast Iron Modernist Sconces
Located in New York, NY
Elegant pair of French glass, chrome, cast iron modernist sconces. Glass has an "ice" texture.
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Chrome, Iron
Pair of Modernist Art Deco Lamps, Wood and Patinated Bronze, France, circa 1930
Located in L
Etang, FR
Pair of table lamps.
In wood and patinated bronze.
Art Deco, France, circa 1930.
Good
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Mid-Century Modernist Chandelier, Wood
Chrome, France, circa 1940
Located in L
Etang, FR
Art Deco modernist chandelier.
France, midcentury, circa 1940.
Chromed/nickel-plated brass and
Category
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Modernist Table Lamp by Desny
By La Maison Desny
Located in Warlingham, GB
French Art Deco modernist stacked glass table lamp by Desny. It measures 4.5 inches high by 5.5
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Glass
Modernist Desk or Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Interesting Table Lamp with Modernist Art Deco design.
Category
Vintage 1930s French Table Lamps
Materials
Nickel
Modernist Flush Mount, Europe, 1930s
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Modernist flush mount with thick acid etched glass sitting within an equally robust nickeled brass
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Flush Mount
Materials
Nickel
Modernist Art Deco Flush Mount
By Bauhaus
Located in Janvry, Essonne
A modernist Art Deco flush mount in the style of Bauhaus with a thick frosted glass sphere mounted
Category
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Flush Mount
Materials
Nickel
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With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the piece of French modernist lighting you’re looking for. Frequently made of metal, glass and brass, every item from our selection of French modernist lighting was constructed with great care. There are 893 variations of the antique or vintage choice in our collection of French modernist lighting you’re looking for, while we also have 15 modern editions of this piece to choose from as well. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect object in our assortment of French modernist lighting — we have versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century are available. Each option in this array of French modernist lighting bearing mid-century modern, Art Deco or modern hallmarks is very popular. You’ll likely find more than one piece of French modernist lighting that is appealing in its simplicity, but Arlus, Atelier Petitot and Sofar produced versions that are worth a look.
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A piece of French modernist lighting can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $3,200, while the lowest priced sells for $1 and the highest can go for as much as $166,056.
Finding the Right Lighting for You
The right table lamp, outwardly sculptural chandelier or understated wall pendant can work wonders for your home. While we’re indebted to thinkers like Thomas Edison for critically important advancements in lighting and electricity, we’re still finding new ways to customize illumination to fit our personal spaces all these years later. A wide range of antique and vintage lighting can be found on 1stDibs.
Today, lighting designers like the self-taught Bec Brittain have used the flexible structure of LEDs to craft glamorous solutions by working with what is typically considered a harsh lighting source. By integrating glass and mirrors, reflection can be used to soften the glow from LEDs and warmly welcome light into any space.
Although contemporary innovators continue to impress, some of the classics can’t be beat.
Just as gazing at the stars allows you to glimpse the universe’s past, vintage chandeliers like those designed by Gino Sarfatti and J. L. Lobmeyr, for example, put on a similarly stunning show, each with a rich story to tell.
As dazzling as it is, the Arco lamp, on the other hand, prioritizes functionality — it’s wholly mobile, no drilling required. Designed in 1962 by architect-product designers Achille Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, the piece takes the traditional form of a streetlamp and creates an elegant, arching floor fixture for at-home use.
There is no shortage of modernist lighting similarly prized by collectors and casual enthusiasts alike — there are Art Deco table lamps created in a universally appreciated style, the Tripod floor lamp by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Greta Magnusson Grossman's sleek and minimalist Grasshopper lamps and, of course, the wealth of mid-century experimental lighting that emerged from Italian artisans at Arredoluce, FLOS and many more are hallmarks in illumination innovation.
With decades of design evolution behind it, home lighting is no longer just practical. Crystalline shaping by designers like Gabriel Scott turns every lighting apparatus into a luxury accessory. A new installation doesn’t merely showcase a space; carefully chosen ceiling lights, table lamps and floor lamps can create a mood, spotlight a favorite piece or highlight your unique personality.
The sparkle that your space has been missing is waiting for you amid the growing collection of antique, vintage and contemporary lighting for sale on 1stDibs.
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