Your favourite lamp
There's lot about furniture & clocks on this forum, but I haven't seen a list of peoples favourite lamp from their collection. for me, it has to be the Cobra Lamp designed by the legend Elio Martinelli and later, the reissue of a new take on the design available at twentytwentyone.

Lets see your favourite lamps which take pride of place in your living space

;o)

Old Fashioned
Call me old fashioned, but there's something lovely and simple and very un-designy about the Luxo L1.

It's a nice tripod lamp
but here's three of my favorites (in my collection)

Favorites
Flos Spun table lamp(I have it in white), Artemide tolomeo Mega, and flos Luxmaster(I had it, but the plastic just broke). Oh and bubble lamps, I can't forget those(I have a large Cigar). Miss K table lamp too, nice lamp.

its a toss up between my 2...
its a toss up between my 2 Guzzinis

Oops, you're right!
Evidentally, I'm also a fan of David Weeks (as is HE of Serge Mouille, it appears).

Couple of my latest faves
I have a lamp collection and can't get enough of them..

This one was being thrown away and I brought it home with me:



(A friend ID'ed it as possibly being made by "Lawrin Co. Chicago, Illinois" in the late 60's or early 70's. I liked the large glass sphere inside the wicker shade and it's yellow faux-bamboo look. Fit's in nicely to my rummage sale- style apartment.)


The other current fave is just a no-name orange lamp I bought from a junk dealer for a three dollars. Dates from the 70's I imagine, judging by the wiring.



I'm extremely jealous of all the fantastic lamps in this thread and hope to someday have even one of them in my collection!

lamp info
Barry, could you provide me with some info on the first lamp you pictured? I picked up a similar one awhile back and haven't been able to find much about it. Any leads would be appreciated. Thanks.

I have this lamp with a milk...
I have this lamp with a milk glass shade,its by Franco Albini and my wife and I bought ours in a clothes shop in Barcelona for £30 about 10years ago,def in my top 3 best buys ever from the point of view of the pleasure it gives me when I see it.

wow
mmmmmm, beautiful

I'm a lamp whore.
Great thread!

My favorite lamp was also my first post here, as my "best find" or "best deal" or whatever the title of that thread is. It is a custom piece made for the cosmetic department of a Thalhimer's Department Store in Memphis, in the late 1940s. The old store had dozens of them throughout cosmetics. When it went out of business in the late 80s, the lamps were mostly snatched up and pilfered by the employees. They occasionally pop-up at vintage shops. The going price was about $2000-$2500. I found mine in the "junk room" of an antique store that specialized in Victorian and Southern Antebellum pieces. They had no idea what it was. I knew exactly what it was. I paid either $10 or $20 for it. That was almost 20 years ago.


I own two 1940s Deco lamps from FrankArt:



I have a first generation Tizio in standard black. A bit over-exposed, but it's a classic.


On my bed-side table I have a silver with red, Luceplan Berenice.


I eventually plan to get a wall mounted Tolomeo for my home-office, desk area.

zepp02 wrote:
> The lamp you show as being from a memphis department store
> was recently being sold on ebay as Sonneman. I bought four
> of the lamps at a Dilliards that was closing its store here
> and was wondering about its designer. The lamp uses a fluorescent
> lighting fixture so I don't see how it could be from the 40's. Looks
> like sixties or early seventies.

I had always assumed the florescent was a retro-fit. There is no brand on them anywhere.

I hope you're correct. I'd love to know more about the lamp. It may make it much less rare, but I'd have information, and know how to get another, etc.

A vintage store in Memphis called Flashback has had 2 on their jewelry counter for decades. They have tags on them that say "Not For Sale". That is the story that they have told customers for years. The few time I'd seen others for sale when in Memphis, they asked a LOT of money for them, and the sellers all knew the same story, too. So I'm pretty confident that the stock of them that regularly shows up at vintage retailers in Memphis came from the Thalhimer's cosmetic department. The date of 1940s comes from the fact that that particular Thalhimer's department store was built (with much fanfare) in the late 40s. It was a fabulous Art Deco department store, that was built to be their flagship location, in its day. These lamps fit the aesthetics of the space very well, though they may well have been accessorized later.

Any more info you have on them is certainly appreciated.

cheers,
Chris

ebay item number 310046605185
Here is the item number. Don't know haw to create link.

art deco faces...
...i picked up one myself. it's a Max Le Verrier-fake. I got it cheap at a yard-sale and it varies in this one detail and the material. but then again I wouldn't spend 5.700 for two originals either (->link)...

http://cgi.ebay.de/Art-Deco-Le-Verrier-Signed-Bronze-Nude-Lm...