Crystal Table Lamp BaseFaceted Glass and Brass Modernist Bedside Lamp — French, 1950s Design

DETAILS:
Height: 18 cm (7.1 in) — roughly the height of a paperback; sold without shade
Faceted glass elements, brass mounts and circular base; push-button switch in base
Electrical: Before dispatch, our workshop will inspect and test the electrical system, with rewiring and replacement fittings where needed. Delivered working and ready to use.
Condition: very good condition; no losses, chips, or oxidation; soft age mellowing to brass

Before dispatch, our workshop will inspect and test the electrical system, with rewiring and replacement fittings where needed. Delivered working and ready to use.

After the war, French lamp makers found a way to bring the sparkle of the chandelier down onto the nightstand: stack cut glass on a slender rod, let the bulb above light it from within, and a small bedside lamp could scatter light the way a great pendant did. The formula — faceted glass between warm brass — became a signature of 1950s French bedrooms precisely because it did so much with so little.

This lamp base is French, a modernist design of the 1950s: two faceted glass elements, one tapered upward and one down, stacked hourglass-fashion between polished brass spheres on a plain circular brass foot, with the original push-button switch set into the base plate. Look through the facets at the brass stem behind them — the cutting splits it into a dozen repeating images, and that multiplication is the whole design: every light in the room, and eventually the bulb above, is doubled and redoubled inside the glass. The lamp's wiring is functional and it is brought to current standards through our workshop before dispatch, fitted with the appropriate plug or adapter for your country, and delivered ready to use. It is sold as a lamp base, without shade.

The glass is in very good condition — no losses, no chips — and the brass is clean with no oxidation, carrying only the soft mellowing of its years, as the photographs show. Whoever switched this lamp on at their bedside before you kept it carefully. It is made for a nightstand, a dressing table, or a small console.

The lamp is cut glass and brass, checked and brought to standard before dispatch. It arrives professionally packed and fully insured — worldwide shipping and US import duties are included. For other destinations, local import taxes and duties may apply and are payable by the recipient. Returns are accepted within 30 days.

Condition

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Maison Jaspers pays US tariffs and import duties. For other destinations, local import taxes and duties may apply and are payable by the recipient. Contact us before ordering if you need destination-specific guidance.

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