Art Deco Dualite Ritter Dental Mfg. Articulating Desk Lamp

Elegant articulating Art Deco / Streamline desk lamp made in Europe in the 1930s. Beautiful ivory body with brass detailing, well-constructed, hea...

Rare and Striking! Art Deco Metal & Brass Articulating Desk Lamp With Faux Leather Enamel Circa 1939 At the time of the New York World's Fair of 1939, designers architects and engineers were all inspired to bring about and summon "The Future!" This extremely rare lamp is a great example of the designs, ideas and aesthetic of this momentous period! Here an articulating brass banded drum shade swivels on a great expansive brass arch! Arches added a sense of drama and importance to an object and were used very successfully in this time period to bring both formality and dynamism to furnishings! This drum shade beams light where desired and it is covered with an enamel pattern designed to look like leather. This element is very rare and is one of the first industrial age examples of decorating metals and plastics with "natural" patterns. This would become fairly common place decades later as the "wood" trim on cars was decorative plastic and before that, contact paper was introduced to a design conscious public. At this time, several extremely high end desk lamp designs featured leather wrappings, particularly those coming out of Europe, who were still employing more handmade furnishings. So this design feature was not just a random whim, but an effort to convey "old world" imagery to a very industrialized product. Now, almost 85 years later, as most leather wrapped lamps...

An exquisite, timeless French early midcentury desk or table lamp with modernist and Art Deco influences in solid brass and stabile, heavy weight that combines form and function. The...

A French 1960’s white and black small articulating desk lamp. There are some minor rust marks to the paintwork on the shade which should be visible on the photos. Rewired with black ...

A petite desk lamp with articulating arm and painted shade and base in grey.

American art deco chrome and black enamel ringed Saturn desk lamp. Shown with a 7.75" High by 8.75" Diameter black drum shade

Step back into the style and practicality of the 1930s with this Black Bauhaus Articulating Desk Lamp. Its robust construction ensures durability, while its elegant lines exude class...

A Swedish art deco chrome plated brass desk lamp. Bauhaus style. Green spherical shade painted white on the inside. Shade diameter: 29 cm. Base with green ring at the stem. On/Of...

Streamline art deco cobra lamp by Faries. In original condition with brass lampshade and polished nickel base.