Steampunk More Lighting

An impressive handmade and large chandeliers by J.T. Kalmar, Austria, manufactured in midcentury, circa 1960 (late 1950s or early 1960s). The fixture is made of polished brass in a w...

Large size and great design, 'multi-shapable' pendant light. If you are looking for a beautiful and truly stylish pendant for a midcentury, for an Art Deco or for a contemporary interior then this cool chandelier...

5-arm chrome and opaline glass chandelier, 1960s Mid-Century Modern chandelier made in the 1960s. It has chrome arms, each with opaline glass shade in extraordinary shape. We...

English Silverplate eight-light chandelier, early 20th century. US wired.

A beautiful pair of solid European Art Deco Modern period Carrara marble table lamps with brass detailing, circa 20th century. Lamps are predominately white marble with black and gre...

A modernist sphere of molded art glass eleven inches in diameter with diamond patterning gives the impression of finely cut crystal. Dropped from the ceiling on a single stem, from a simple concentrically round canopy; this chandelier is reminiscent of the Swarovski crystal ball...

Modernist Brass and White Glass Chandelier, probably Italian, circa 1950's.The shades give off a warm glow when lit. The chandelier measures an impressive 32" diameter x 28" height f...

Elegant Art Deco, Machine Age nickeled table lamp... skyscraper design. Exceptional quality, stunning....

Extraordinary Italian midcentury brass and 16 opaline sphere Murano glass large Sputnik chandelier. Available also a pair. The brass height is customizable. 16 E27 light bulbs. This ...

Extraordinary Italian midcentury brass and 16 opaline sphere Murano glass large Sputnik chandelier. Available also a pair. The brass height is customizable. 16 E27 light bulbs.

An Interesting Early 20th Century Gilt Bronze and Crystal Twenty Six Light “Grotesque” Chandelier A unique Gothic Style, drop crystal, basket chandelier with different “Grotesque” faces and designs. Twenty four tiered perimeter lights (including 6 lanterns) and two tiered interior lights. Artists began to give the tiny faces of the figures in grotesque decorations strange caricatured expressions, in a direct continuation of the medieval traditions of the drolleries in the border decorations or initials in illuminated manuscripts. From this the term began to be applied to larger caricatures, such as those of Leonardo da Vinci, and the modern sense began to develop. It is first recorded in English in 1646 from Sir Thomas Browne: “In nature there are no grotesques”. By extension backwards in time, the term became also used for the medieval originals, and in modern terminology medieval drolleries, half-human thumbnail vignettes drawn in the margins, and carved figures on buildings (that are not also waterspouts, and so gargoyles) are also called “grotesques”. A boom in the production of works of art in the grotesque genre, characterized the period 1920–1933 of German art. In contemporary illustration art, the “grotesque” figures, in the ordinary conversational sense, commonly appear in the genre grotesque art...

Pair of crystal sconces decorated with ship painting.