By the late 1960s, the table lamp had discovered chrome. The material of car bumpers and espresso machines moved into the living room, and European makers learned its trick: polished chrome does not just sit in a room, it reflects the room back, doubling every light source around it. Paired with warm wood, it became the signature contrast of the decade — machine shine against organic grain.
This lamp is European, from the 1960s or 70s by the attributed date, its stem built as a stack of alternating forms: a stepped chrome foot, a dark hazel-toned solid wood sphere, a wide chrome urn, and a wooden cylinder rising to the fitting. Look at the wide chrome belly when the lamp is lit — a well-kept chrome surface throws back a single crisp reflection, where pitting or plating fatigue would scatter it into haze, so the reflection itself is the condition report. The lamp wears a new fabric drum shade in cream, trimmed top and bottom with hazel-brown velvet banding to match the wood. It arrives with the appropriate plug or adapter fitted for your country, ready to use.
The chrome is bright and the wood elements sound, with only light age-consistent wear; the shade is new and unmarked. Whoever kept this lamp shining before you kept it well. It is ready for a sideboard, a living room corner, or a generous bedside table.
The lamp stands nearly three quarters of a metre tall with its shade, a substantial piece in solid materials. It arrives professionally packed and fully insured — we handle the paperwork and worldwide shipping, with all import duties paid by us, so there is nothing to settle on delivery. Returns are accepted within 30 days.
DETAILS:
Height without shade: 45 cm (17.7 in) · Total height with shade: 74 cm (29.1 in)
Chromed metal and solid wood; new fabric drum shade with velvet trim
Electrical: plug or adapter fitted for the buyer's country; delivered working and ready to use
Condition: very good vintage condition; bright chrome, sound wood, new shade
