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hand blown pair french desk lamps le verre Francais butterfly dragonfly his her $5,499.00 |
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Tiffany #419 Harp Arm Desk Lamp Gold Bronze & Gold Iridescence Shade $4,999.00 |
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x2 / Pair of FRENCH Machine age Industrial factory desk lamp GRAS-RAVEL CLAMART $3,200.00 |
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Bronze desk set including inkwell, lamp and paperweight $2,800.00 |
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Pair Vintage Mid Century Modern Rosewood Discus Lamps Laurel Desk Side Table $2,999.00 |
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FRENCH Machine age Industrial factory desk or wall lamp GRAS $2,800.00 |
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Original Tiffany Studios New York bronze Zodiac desk lamp $2,850.00 |
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EILEEN GRAY ART DECO BAUHAUS JUMO desk lamp $2,500.00 |
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EILEEN GRAY ART DECO BAUHAUS JUMO desk lamp n2 $2,500.00 |
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Charlotte PERRIAND for PHILIPS Mid century Desk lamp $2,500.00 |
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Vintage Art Nouveau Semi Nude Lady Figural Bronze Spelter Desk Lamp TERESZCZUK $2,500.00 |
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SUPERB Antique MARIE ZIMMERMANN Large Desk Lamp ARTS & CRAFTS Stickley Era w1560 $2,400.00 |
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PAIRPOINT Desk PIANO Lamp WAGNER RevPtd. SHADE Unusual $2,450.00 |
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FRENCH Art deco streamline JUMO bakelite desk lamp bauhaus n1 $2,200.00 |
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porcelain vases gold gild ormolu table desk lamps flowers red electrified bronze $1,999.00 |
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FRENCH Machine age Industrial factory desk lamp GRAS $1,900.00 |
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Charlotte PERRIAND for PHILIPS Mid century Desk lamp $1,900.00 |
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lamp Charlotte PERRIAND Desk lamps midcentury Bauhaus MACHINE AGE Wood light $1,865.23 |
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FRENCH Art deco streamline JUMO bakelite desk lamp bauhaus n2 RE-EDITION $1,800.00 |
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Some Items Defy Description – French Art Deco MUST See Lock & Key Desk Lamp $1,850.00 |
Core77 2011 Year in Review: Fine Furniture, Brilliant Lighting and Design from Around the World (Core77)
Furniture and lighting are more or less the bread and butter of an industrial
design blog (though these days, we might extend the metaphor to include other
grains–products = pasta, technology = rice, etc.)… which is to say that
they’re always _there_, even when, say, Apocalypse dominates the headlines.
Besides the major furniture and design fairs (more on that below), the Year in
Furniture included a Standing Desk Shootout and a comprehensive six-part
interview with Brooklyn-based manufacturers (literally hand-makers) Hellman-
Chang… in addition to the usual weird and wacky designs that are fit to
publish.
The age-old material of wood is as good a place to start as any: in 2011, it
served as a medium for left-field commentary, a subtractive panton, a crazy
curve, a plywood pod and nest-esque warping. Similarly, reclaimed materials
took on various forms: preserved to polished, de-militarized or simply turned
sideways.
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**Lighting**
Lamps, more than any other object, looked like “other things”… including the
lampshade itself, which inspired several skeuomorphic lighting designs: the
cluster-like “TamTam” ceiling lamp, the futuristic “LED Shade Lamp,” the
humble “Sympathy for the Bulb” and Light Light’s ever-popular levitating
lamps. (We also saw functional abat-jours in glass and …
Robotic Desk Lamp
