Among the desk lamps that were designed and manufactured during the retro period the flexible gooseneck table desk lamp made a reappearance. The lamp was able to be positioned on the edge of the desk but, thanks to the long, bendy neck was able to be positioned directly over the work giving a good working [...] Read more »
Teak Retro Table Lamps
Among the variety of favored materials used during the retro era when making table lamps, at least lamp stands, was wood and teak was a very popular medium due to its great durability. Teak table lamps look great even when left untreated and the many styles into which it could be fashioned made it extremely [...] Read more »
Danish Retro Table Lamps
Danish design furniture emphasizes the contemporary classic furniture from Scandinavia. It applies to industrial design in furniture and table lamps that follow the Danish style are undoubtedly some of the most impressive examples of retro table lamps you will see. Conditions in Denmark in the late 1940s were suited to successful innovation in design with [...] Read more »
Glass Retro Table Lamps
When referring to glass retro table lamps, we are usually referring to the lamp stand that is made predominantly of glass. Many of the glass table lamps that were made during the retro era were colored in greens, blues or reds and are distinctive for the time. The typical glass retro table lamp is an [...] Read more »
Lucite Retro Table Lamps
One of the technologies to emerge from the Second World War was a thermoplastic known as Lucite. These days we know it by the more common name of Plexiglas or perspex, hardly a glamorous sounding name for this type of lamp stand material, but there are a lot of creative ways in which it was [...] Read more »