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Style: Machine Age
1930 Rare Original Large Cast Iron Holophane Pendant Lights
By Holophane
Located in Surrey, BC
A rare group of three large Holophane lights with first generation cast fitters, ribbed and extra large glass, not many of these out there.
pri...
Category
1930s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Metal
Pullman Ball Sconces
By EB Studios
Located in Peekskill, NY
This small, simple and elegant geometric style sconce is a nod to turn of the century modernist Joseph Hoffman at his best. It has the look of a train car sconce. It’s delicately com...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Brass
Polaroid Desk Lamp by Walter Dorwin Teague
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Iconic Machine Age design in aluminum, enameled metal and bakelite. Rare complete lamp with original celluloid diffuser, socket and switch, in great working condition. Paper label on...
Category
1930s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Acrylic
Art Deco Peach Pink Clichy Glass Machine Age Pendant Light C1930
Located in Trensacq, FR
French Art Deco 'Machine Age' Clichy Glass Pendant Light C1930.
Glossy stepped peach pink mottled glass shade with new chromed gallery mount.
In good condition with no losses to gla...
Category
1930s French Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Handmade Modernist / Machine Age Aluminum Table Lamp
Located in Oakland, CA
One of a kind table lamp constructed of aluminum, stainless steel and aircraft fasteners. Handmade of aluminum that has been cut and folded to create the shade and base, the shade is...
Category
1970s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Aluminum, Steel, Stainless Steel
Art Deco Machine Age Chrome Table Lamp
Located in San Diego, CA
A very nice art deco machine age chrome table lamp, circa 1930s. The lamp is in good working condition and measures 9.5"D x 28.5"H. It has an extra long electrical cord. Great look...
Category
Early 20th Century American Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Art Deco Spun Aluminum Flip-Top Floor Lamp By Kurt Versen
By Kurt Versen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Machine-age, art deco, spun aluminum "Flip-Top" floor lamp by Kurt Versen offers incredible design and versatility for use as an up lit, torchiere lamp when flipped up, or flipped do...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Aluminum, Chrome
J. Robert Scott Stunning Pair of Machine Age Torcheres 1980s (Signed)
Located in New York, NY
Pair of meticulously crafted Machine Age style torcheres in brushed steel and polished brass by J. Robert Scott, American 1980's (label inside top reads “J. Robert Scott and Associat...
Category
1980s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Brass, Steel
Pair of WWII "Trench Art" Nickel-Plate & Solid Brass Table Lamps, 1940's
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Pair of World War Two Nickel Plate & Solid Brass mortar shell Trench Art table lamps. Featuring heavy, hand machined, reflective nickel-plated brass mortar column-forms, fitted to la...
Category
1940s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Brass, Nickel
Walter Von Nessen Style Brass Swing Arm Desk Lamp with Pale Green Shade, 1940's
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Walter Von Nessen Style Brass Swing Arm Desk Lamp with Pale Green Shade. Featuring a Brass column with extending and adjustable swing arm. extending to 16L. With original white smoot...
Category
1940s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Brass, Metal
Contemporary Folded Steel Table Lamp by EJR Barnes "Canopy Lamp (Straight Up)"
By EJR Barnes
Located in New York, NY
Designed by EJR Barnes in 2023, this contemporary stainless steel table lamp is sculpturally bent into an angular shape to artfully reflect and diffuse light beneath a folded metal c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Sheet Metal, Stainless Steel
Contemporary Table Lamp in Folded Steel
By EJR Barnes
Located in New York, NY
Designed by EJR Barnes in 2023, this contemporary industrial-style steel table lamp is sculpturally bent into an angular shape to artfully reflect and diffuse light beneath a folded ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Aluminum, Stainless Steel, Sheet Metal
Donald Deskey Style Machine Age Aluminum Desk Lamp
Located in Garnerville, NY
This wonderful lamp is often attributed to Donald Deskey. This desk lamp defines the overall aesthetic of the Machine Age of the 1930 and 1940s. Sleek and streamlined period modernis...
Category
1930s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Metal, Aluminum
1930s Polaroid Table Lamp, Model 114, USA
Located in St- Leonard, Quebec
Art Deco, machine age Polaroid table lamp made of thick bakelite and casted aluminium.
Desk lamp, model 114, designed in 1939 for the Polaroid Corporatio...
Category
1930s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Aluminum
Exceptional Machine Age Art Deco Walnut and Chrome Table Lamps American C.1930’s
Located in Bernville, PA
Rare pair of Machine Age Art Deco walnut and polished chrome table lamps. A simple streamline design from the American Art deco movement of the 1930’s. Professionally restored and rewired. Dimensions 13 inches high, base is 6 inches in diameter, and the shade is 5...
Category
1930s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Chrome
American Designer, Table Lamp, Chrome Metal, USA, 1930s
Located in High Point, NC
A chrome metal table lamp designed and produced in the US, c. 1930s.
Dimensions of Lamp (inches): 14.5” H x 4.25” Diameter
Dimensions of Shade (inches): 4.5” Top Diameter x 15.75” B...
Category
1930s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Chrome, Metal
Early Bronze Quad Subway Sconces
Located in Peekskill, NY
This is an authentic early 20th century cast bronze 4 light subway station ceiling lamp. Several variations of this fixture were used in New York's subway stations. This example stil...
Category
Early 20th Century American Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Bronze
Danish Designer, Table Lamp, Metal, Denmark, 1930s
Located in High Point, NC
An adjustable chrome and beige-lacquered aluminium table lamp designed and produced in Denmark, 1930s.
Overall Dimensions (inches): 17.5” H x 5.80” W x 9” D
Dimensions variable base...
Category
1930s Swedish Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Metal
Dutch Designer, Table Lamp, Aluminium, Netherlands, 1930s
Located in High Point, NC
An adjustable aluminium table lamp designed and produced in the Netherlands, 1930s.
Overall Dimensions (inches): 13.95” H x 6” W x 9.5”D
Bulb Specifications: E-26 Bulb
Number of Soc...
Category
1930s Dutch Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Aluminum, Metal
1920 Copper Industrial Sconce lights by Benjamin Lighting Co.
Located in Surrey, BC
1920 Industrial Bulbous Benjamin Copper Pendant Globe sconce showing great patina ..Originally only in a pendant format we have custom altered the arm set up in copper and brass to a...
Category
1920s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Copper
ASEA, Wall Lights, Chrome, Metal, Sweden, 1930s
By ASEA
Located in High Point, NC
A pair of adjustable chrome-metal and white-lacquered metal wall lights designed and produced by ASEA, Sweden, 1930s.
Overall Dimensions (inches): 11” H x 7” W x 8.5” D
Back Plate D...
Category
1930s Swedish Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Metal, Chrome
1920 copper benjamin industrial Glass globe Pendant light
Located in Surrey, BC
One of the more interesting industrial lights manufactured in the USA with decent gauge copper nicely patina'd with a thick glass globe... used predominantly in silos and areas where...
Category
1920s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Copper
Walter Von Nessen, Table Lamps, Chrome Metal, Burlap, USA, 1930s
Located in High Point, NC
A pair of chrome-plated metal and burlap fabric lampshades designed and produced by Walter Von Nessen, USA, 1930s.
Overall Dimensions (inches): 20.15" H x 10" W x 11" D
Bulb Specif...
Category
1930s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Machine Age Frosted Long Dome Pendent
Located in Peekskill, NY
Starting with the Bauhaus style as inspiration we designed these new original pendents. The look is a bit Industrial, Machine Age with a hint Wilhelm Wagenfeld Bauhaus...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Steel
Art Deco Brass Table Lamp, Kurt Versen 1930s
By Kurt Versen
Located in Portland, OR
Fantastic early lamp by Swedish-born designer, Kurt Versen. In brass with plated aluminum shade. Excellent condition. Rare lamp. United States, 1930s. 18” tall.
Category
1930s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Aluminum, Brass
1940 Industrial Enamel Pendant Lights 8 Available
By Westinghouse
Located in Surrey, BC
A very nice set of rare enamel lights salvaged from a warehouse in Chicago . these unique fixtures have a louvered tops and unique milk glass globes givi...
Category
1940s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Enamel
Austrian Mastercraft Art Deco Machine Age Handcrafted Brass Chandelier Re-Edited
By Woka Lamps
Located in Vienna, AT
A beautiful very elaborate chandelier, pictured in patinated brass
Most components according to the UL regulations, with an additional charge w...
Category
2010s Austrian Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Brass
1940 Large Cast Industrial Nautical Pendant Lights
By Crouse-Hinds
Located in Surrey, BC
We have a very nice set of crouse hinds nautical lights / Industrial with cast details, brass, and thick embossed glass shields.
Lights were salvaged from a ship in the 1980s and...
Category
1940s Canadian Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Aluminum, Brass
Gilbert Rhode Style Chrome Plated Desk Lamp, 1940s
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Streamline Moderne Gilbert Rohde style all chrome desk lamp. Featuring an arched Chrome plated Brass neck, rotating cylindrical head connecting to triple cylindrical tubes, center tu...
Category
1940s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Bespoke Machine Age Pendant Light, Nickel Plated Brass, Tube Lights, Design 1928
By GMD Berlin
Located in Berlin, DE
Machine Age pendant light manufactured by GMD Berlin, design 1928.
Technical details: Six sockets E 27, soffitten-lights (tube lights), the pendant length is variable.
Category
2010s German Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Brass, Nickel
Large Machine Age Chandelier with 6 Arms, Nickel-Plated Brass, Customizable
By GMD Berlin
Located in Berlin, DE
Machine Age 'Metropolis' chandelier with 6 arms. Nickel-plated brass, customizable.
Technical details: 12 sockets E 27, soffitten-lights, the pendant length is variable.
Category
2010s German Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Brass, Nickel
Skeletal Industrial Blue Wire Glass Pendant Lamps
Located in Peekskill, NY
This is one of the first lamps The Early Electrics Design Studio introduced and featured a rare blue green Industrial glass. It quickly sold out. It took a couple of years to discover another collection of this hard to find color glass and can offer this pendant again.
These unique 9" square pendant...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Glass
Walter Von Nessen Machine Age Black Enamel & Brass Table Lamp, 1940's
Located in Bainbridge, NY
American Modernist Walter Von Nessen attributed brass column table lamp. Featuring an open five column architectural framework, with tubular Black enameled Brass center and four surr...
Category
1940s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Brass
Philips "First Product" Power Supply Table Lamp
Located in VUGHT, NL
Philips table lamp
Lamp made from the first adapter ever.
Philips manufactured the first (home) radio for private individuals in 1925.
This (type 2501) radio worked on batteries, but because the Netherlands was busy connecting the homes to the electricity grid at that time, the question arose whether the radio could also be connected to the socket.
That is why, especially from 1927, these transformer/rectifiers were supplied as an option.
After this radio combination, Philips quickly switched to manufacturing (home) radios with built-in power supply.
A short and special period, so that there are few of these more than 90 years old adapters left.
Because the built-in electricity can no longer mean a sensible and safe function in the current time, it has been completely removed.
Placed back are a powerful (800 lumen Philips) LED lamp in “Edison” shape glass bulb.
The left rotary knob switches between off, two neon mood lights on and (third position) the LED lamp on (neons off).
Right rotary knob, very nicely regulates the light intensity of the LED lamp.
In certain low dimmed positions, the lamp can sometimes flicker, this is not a problem and perhaps extra atmospheric?
A total of five copies were made (one sold), four with a glued fixed (Philips) LED lamp and one with built-up E27 fitting (this has interchangeable (incandescent) lamp options).
Bakelite top plate.
Steel plate housing with beautiful patina or newly sprayed black hammer blow (because of the condition some copies were in).
One version has a France guideline printed on the housing, the other one's: Dutch.
New cotton wrapped and earthed connection cable (300 cm.) with old bakelite...
Category
1920s Dutch Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Metal
Anglepoise Wall Lamp
Located in Philadelphia, PA
English Anglepoise Adjustable Wall Lamp or Sconce. In very nice shape, spring action makes it easy to adjust and hold in place. US socket already in place! On Off Switch on Cone.
Category
1940s English Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Nickel
Art Deco / Machine Age Chandelier, 1930, Restored
Located in Praha, CZ
Machine Age chandelier made of nickel-plated brass and glass.
Restored, polished, rewired:
Two separate circuits - 3x25W (E12-E14 bulbs on the bottom part)
3x60W (E25-E27 bulbs on...
Category
1930s European Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Nickel
Mira Hex Wall Sconce in Natural Brass and Blown Glass by Blueprint Lighting
Located in New York, NY
MIRA HEX wall sconce in solid brass and blown opal glass by Blueprint Lighting, 2022.
A handsome study in clean lines and simple form inspired by the both th...
Category
2010s American Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Nickel
Small Double-Plate Frosted Glass Pendent
Located in Peekskill, NY
This small tracery style Industrial pendant fits comfortably with most styles. It's very architectural with clean lines… just look at the profile. The heavy steel frame has an aged p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Steel
Large Double-Plate Natural Frosted Glass Pendent
Located in Peekskill, NY
This large tracery style Industrial pendant fits comfortably with most styles. It's very architectural with clean lines… just look at the profile. The heavy steel frame has an aged p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Steel
1910 Mercury Glass Silver Sconces Light
Located in Surrey, BC
We acquired a group of NOS circular cone Mercury Glass shades by the Pittsburgh Reflector Co, , very nice condition in wrappers.
A slight conversion to sconces on articulating arm,...
Category
Early 20th Century American Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Brass
Adjustable Machine Age Industrial Floor Lamp
By S. Robert Schwartz & Bros. 1
Located in New York, NY
Interesting adjustable floor, reading lamp, marked "Schwartz & Bros. NY Made in USA G 748 "
This model has a horizontal arm which swings (360 degrees ) and will also adjust in he...
Category
1930s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Aluminum, Iron, Steel
Hinged Three Ball Mini Chandelier
Located in Peekskill, NY
This all brass lamp is totally unique. It was inspired by August Haarstick in the Jugendstil Deco style. There is a centre ball that is the axis for thr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Brass
Vintage Brass Artillery Shell Trench Art Table Lamp
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Circa 1930s Trench Art Lamp fashioned from a brass artillery shell mounted to a brass base supported by three ball feet.
Rich patina present, as show...
Category
1930s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Brass
Pair of Vintage Modern Wood and Brushed Chrome Sphere Lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
These vintage lamps have a very machine age modern style to them. Certainly from a high-end maker. They have been rewired and the wood has been touched up in their beautiful French w...
Category
1960s Unknown Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Wood
Machine Age / Functionalism Chandelier, 1930s, Restored
Located in Praha, CZ
6-Flamming nickel-plated chandelier made in 1930s. Restored: nickel with minor age patina polished. Glass in perfect condition. Rewired: two separate circuits - 3xE12-E14 + 3xE25 bul...
Category
1930s Czech Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Nickel
Machine Age Mid Century Brass Atomic Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
An American Brass Machine Age / Mid Century chandelier. Machine age Mid Century chandelier with Atomic styling by Globe Lighting Fixture Mfg. Co...
Category
1940s Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Brass
Sperti Inc. Raymond Loewy Style Aluminum & Cast Iron Adjustable Floor Lamp, 1940
By Sperti 1
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Sperti Sunlamp Inc. adjustable Aluminum and Cast Iron repurposed light therapy floor lamp, in the style of Raymond Loewy, Circa 1940. Featuring articulating machined grooved Clam Shell Aluminum Reflector Shades, tilting lamp...
Category
1940s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Iron, Aluminum
Set of 3 Machine Age Chrome Coil Shape 2 Light Sconces, Wall Lamps, France, 1970
Located in Miami, FL
One of a kind set of 3 different styles of coil shaped 2 light chrome sconces, wall lights machine age design made in France 1970.
Original European Wiring and we will add Socket Re...
Category
Late 20th Century French Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Antique Brass Artillery Double Shell Trench Art Table Lamp on Black Marble Base
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Trench Art lamp fashioned from two stacked brass and chrome high caliber artillery shells mounted to a black marble base (ca. 1918, USA).
Rich patina ...
Category
1910s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Marble, Brass, Chrome
American Designer, Table Lamp / Desk Light, Lacquered Metal, United States 1940s
Located in High Point, NC
An adjustable table lamp / desk light. Designed and produced in the United States, c. 1940s. In lacquered metal.
Category
1940s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Metal
Industrial Brass Arc Floor Lamp
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Industrial brass arc floor lamp with adjustable swivel head.
Category
20th Century Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Brass
Pair 1940's Machine Age Table Lamps Chrome & Glass, Original Shades & Finials
Located in Kansas City, MO
Rare pair of machine age table lamps. Chromed steel and glass. Awesome original shades with chrome trim. One shade has a one inch crack near the top that does not distract from the b...
Category
1940s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Pair of Machine Age Aluminum Torchiere Floor Lamps in the Style of Russel Wright
Located in San Francisco, CA
A handsome pair of uncommon mid-1940s Russel Wright-style Machine Age or Art Deco aluminum torchiere floor lamps.
Broad and deep spun al...
Category
1940s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Aluminum
Machine Age Style Silver-Tone and Lucite Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
Machine Age style silver-tone five-light tiered chandelier with lucite sphere details. Measures: 34” height x 24” diameter.
Category
20th Century Unknown Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Metal
French Art Deco Machine Age Glass Rod Light Fixture Chandelier
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
French Art Deco Machine Age glass rod light fixture chandelier. Thick glass rods and nickel-plated finish with opaque glass bottom. The barrel ...
Category
1990s North American Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Nickel
Machine Age Table Lamp, USA 1930s
Located in New York, NY
A Classic example of the simplicity and Art Deco influence on the Machine Age designs. From the wooden base to the fabulous finial it's all you expect from the period.
Category
1930s American Vintage Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Aluminum
Machine Age Art Deco Chrome Floor Lamp of Exaggerated Curved Form
Located in New York, NY
Machine Age, Art Deco chrome floor lamp having a dramatic curved vertical element with adjustable chrome hood shade. The hood shade will tilt to...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Walter Von Nessen Floor Lamp Early Version
Located in New York, NY
Early and rare version of the now iconic Machine Age Nessen swing arm floor lamp. The construction of this example dates the lamp from the...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Machine Age Lighting
Materials
Steel
Machine Age lighting for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Machine Age lighting for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage lighting created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include lighting, decorative objects, wall decorations and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, brass and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Machine Age lighting made in a specific country, there are North America, United States, and Europe pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original lighting, popular names associated with this style include Early Electrics Design Studio, Nessen Studio, GMD Berlin, and Kurt Versen. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for lighting differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $350 and tops out at $12,000 while the average work can sell for $1,700.
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