Lighting
Antique lighting can range from simple terracotta roman oil lamps or a pewter candlesticks to elaborate and impressive chandeliers.
In between come a whole range of different lighting forms depending on country of origin or their specific function. They encompass enamelled glass mosque lamps from Middle Eastern countries; European giltwood or ormolu wall brackets; figural torchères that hold lamps or the coloured glass creations from the likes of Daum and Gallé in Northern France to Tiffany’s distinctive American designs.
With the arrival of electricity, lighting gradually became more functional and simplified. Today lights by inter- or post-war Scandinavian or ‘50s and ‘60s Italian designers have acquired the status of design classics.

Mid-century in the mainstream but dealer highlights the eco difference between period and ‘style’
16 September 2019Mid-century style is very much on the rise at the moment – as the organisers of the two Midcentury Shows in London know well.

The web shop window: English silver-plated student lamps
19 August 2019Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Interview: Casting light on bicycle lamps
15 July 2019Peter Card’s fascination with this niche area stretches to the joy of extensive research

5 Questions: Toby Jones
15 April 2019Toby Jones of Jones Antique Lighting specialises in early 20th century decorative antique lighting.

Salvador Dalí’s surrealist ‘champagne’ lamps designed for West Sussex home bought by V&A Museum
19 March 2019A pair of ‘champagne’ lamps designed by surrealist artist Salvador Dalí has been bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum and will be reunited with Dalí’s Mae West Lips sofa.

Let there be lights at Dulwich College fair
25 February 2019Lamps in south London form a stylish and popular part of the mid-century collecting field.

Cotswold School Arts & Crafts sconce speculation
04 February 2019A set of four Cotswold School Arts & Crafts wall sconces, one shown below, was catalogued by Moore Allen & Innocent (20% buyer’s premium) as in the Wild Strawberry pattern and in the manner of Ernest Gimson (1864-1919).

Guillemin torchères shine in Selborne
21 January 2019Topped by the 17th century Dutch bottles at £30,000 (see ATG No 2375), the year’s first sale at Hannam’s (23% buyer’s premium) had other treasures among the 2000 lots including the French bronze figural torchères, right.

Art & Antiques for Everyone offers suggestions to brighten the home this winter
05 November 2018Those looking to brighten their home this winter could turn to the wide selection of bright or colourful antiques on offer during the next edition of 'Art & Antiques for Everyone'.

Rare 19th century miners’ lamp lights up auction in Rotherham
24 October 2018A rare miners’ lamp was the unexpected highlight of Paul Beighton’s October 14 sale in Thurcroft near Rotherham.

Paavo Tynell trips the light fantastic
18 June 2018The specialist Finnish lighting designer Paavo Tynell proved to be the strong suit in a 111-lot Scandinavian design sale held by Artcurial (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) in Paris.

Buyer sought to keep Salvador Dalí champagne lamps in the UK
02 June 2018Lamps designed by surrealist artist Salvador Dalí have been blocked from export in the hope a buyer can be found to pay £440,000 to keep them in the UK.

Thomire candlesticks offered at Duran Subastas sale
14 May 2018This pair of ormolu candlesticks by Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843) will feature in the May 24 auction at Duran Subastas in Madrid.

Buyers dip into the modern movement for design festival at south London lido
23 April 2018The lone swimmer at the Brockwell Lido pictured here appears oblivious to what’s going on alongside the walkways.

Le Corbusier lights withdrawn at last minute from French auction
10 June 2017A group of more than 100 metal light fittings designed for a major French housing complex by Le Corbusier (aka Charles Edouard Jeanneret) has been unexpectedly withdrawn from a design sale at the French auction house Artcurial.

Let there be all kinds of light - German hammer highlights
05 April 2017From minimalist lamp to starry chandelier

Pelmets, plinths and pedestals: fixtures from top London hotel go to auction
13 October 2016Fancy a piece of the opulent Mandarin Oriental hotel in your own living room?

Getty Museum acquires Woody Brock collection
26 January 2016The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired an important collection of 18th century French decorative arts assembled by Dr Horace Wood (Woody) Brock, one of the world’s foremost economists.

A £23,000 Benson light show in Oxford
29 May 2015The work of designer and architect William Arthur Smith Benson (1854-1924) entered a new price arena when this silvered brass ceiling light sold for £23,000 at Mallams Oxford.

Fierce bidding for Stephenson’s bright spark in Sheffield auction
22 January 2014The unexpected high point of the latest sale held at Sheffield Auction Gallery was this rare survivor – one of two miner’s lamps entered for sale by a local vendor.

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