Design lamps and 50s vintage furniture
Explore our selection of vintage 1950s furniture and lighting, a decade marked by the rise of modernist and Scandinavian design. Sideboards, credenzas, desks, armchairs, chairs, and coffee tables stand alongside designer lamps, wall sconces, pendant lights, and vintage floor lamps. Wood — teak, oak, beech, or rosewood — combines with metal, glass, and aluminum in creations characteristic of 1950s design.
Selection of 1950s furniture dedicated to design lamps and vintage furniture: 50s sideboards, desks, 50s secretaries, 50s armchairs, chairs and coffee tables on compass legs in oak, beech or teak, characteristic of the beginnings of modernist design and Reconstruction.
In France, the decade was marked by Reconstruction architects and modernist decorators such as Le Corbusier, Jacques Adnet, Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand or René Gabriel. Their influence is found in a new generation of creators like Marcel Gascoin, Pierre Guariche and the Atelier de Recherche Plastique, Joseph-André Motte or Pierre Paulin, who contributed to renewing the forms and uses of 1950s furniture.
In Denmark, Finn Juhl paved the way for organic design while Arne Jacobsen imposed a more functionalist approach to modern furniture. Hans J. Wegner, Børge Mogensen — a student of Kaare Klint — or Arne Vodder participated in the rise of the Danish Modern movement and the international spread of Scandinavian furniture. In the Netherlands, Louis Van Teeffelen developed high-end furniture from the mid-1950s: teak furniture, rosewood furniture, walnut furniture or wenge furniture.
In Italy, Gio Ponti, Ico Parisi, Franco Albini or Piero Fornasetti participated in the influence of Italian design, while Achille Castiglioni and Gino Sarfatti renewed the world of modern lighting, distributed through editors like Stilnovo, Arteluce or Oluce…
The selection also includes vintage lighting in lacquered sheet metal or aluminum with free forms: design lamps, lighting fixtures, wall sconces, wall lamps, floor lamps, bedside lamps, ceiling lamps, vintage pendants and floor lamps characteristic of the 1950s.