The light that emanates from Feldman Lighting Company’s decorative chandeliers, pendants and sconces — encased in sculpted bronze and copper and frequently featuring motifs drawn from the natural world — embodies the brutalist movement of the mid-20th century.
The Los Angeles firm’s best known fixtures were produced in various styles from the late 1940s until the 1980s, and its most notable designer, Tom Greene was a graduate of UCLA’s dental school and originally worked as a dental prosthetist.
Beginning in the 1950s, when he wasn't at work in his dental lab, Greene would craft small jewelry pieces utilizing techniques that were typically reserved for making dental crowns and other prosthetics. Unsatisfied with jewelry as a medium, Greene stepped it up and began crafting free-form sculptures from brass and bronze, using an oxyacetylene torch to cut and heat the metal, and hammering it into shape with artisan tools (a torch-cut lamp of Greene’s appeared on Star Trek during the 1960s). He also worked with the ancient technique of lost-wax casting, which sees metal objects and furnishings cast from wax models.
Greene began producing fixtures for Lightolier and Feldman Lighting in the 1970s after seeing much success selling his pieces through Los Angeles furniture retailer and manufacturer Monteverdi-Young. Greene made numerous custom pieces for Feldman to adorn the Hollywood Regency-themed interiors of its Beverly Hills clientele.
The Feldman Lighting company folded by the mid-1980s and its vintage fixtures are highly valued by interior designers and collectors today.
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21-Arm Solid Brass Chandelier by Feldman, CA, 1980s
By Feldman Lighting Co.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful chandelier with 21 arms made in solid brass, designed and manufactured in the USA by Feldman Lighting in the early 1980s. The chandelier was installed at a church since ...
Brass
Small Brass Lotus Light Fixture
By Feldman Lighting Co.
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Small polished brass lotus pendant by Feldman Lighting. Total five available. Chain is 36" and can be shortened if needed.
Brass
Brass Chandelier with Flower and Leaf Motif, Mid-Century Modern, Italy
Located in Antwerp, BE
Beautiful Brass Chandelier with Flower and Leaf Motif This graceful and timeless design is inspired by nature, with detailed leaves and flowers that give the lamp a romantic and cla...
Brass
1950s Eight-Arm Italian Solid Brass Flower Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
Stunning 1950s eight-arm large Italian solid brass flower chandelier. Newly restored and professionally rewired.
Brass
Mid-century French Brass 5 lights Chandelier, 1950s
Located in LEGNY, FR
An elegant 1950s gilt brass chandelier featuring a finely crafted botanical design. Its graceful silhouette is composed of hand-hammered leaves and stylized flowers that harmoniously...
Brass
Mid-Century Spanish Gilt Tôle Botanical Six-Light Chandelier C1950s
By Hans Kögl
Located in Trensacq, FR
A striking mid-century Spanish gilt tôle chandelier featuring an elegant botanical design. The sculptural composition rises from a central bowl with a dramatic spray of gilt leaves, ...
Metal
$6,400 / item
H 15 in Dm 12 in
Large Brass Lotus Fixture by Feldman Lighting Company in the Style of Parzinger
By Feldman Lighting Co.
Located in Saint Louis, MO
A show stopper and epitome of glam. Large Parzinger style brass lotus pedant fixture by Feldman Lighting Company. The largest of the Feldman Lotus Fixtures...
Brass
$3,245
H 29 in Dm 21.75 in
French Mid-Century Modern Six-Light Iron Chandelier in Leaf Motif w/Gold Finish
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Mid-Century Modern six-light chandelier. This French chandelier has a modern design featuring a central column of metal leaves, gathered at the center, and flow outward at t...
Metal, Iron
Italian Broad Leaf Gold Chandelier, C 1970’s
Located in Hastings, GB
Italian Broad Leaf Gilt Chandelier, C 1970’s Wide Gilt Metal Leaves Form A Frond At The Centre Of This Chandelier There Are 5 Metal Arms With Turned Wooden Cups Holding 5 Lampholde...
Metal
Italian Vintage Brass Chandelier, Ten Lights, Mid-Century Modern, 1950
Located in New York, NY
A simple and sophisticated Italian vintage brass chandelier consisting of ten elegantly outstretched arms extending from a circular central support, with a brass ball finial at its b...
Brass
Italian Mid-Century Modern Gaetano Sciolari Style Brass Chandelier
By Gaetano Sciolari, Stilnovo, Guglielmo Ulrich, Sciolari Lighting
Located in Houston, TX
Italian Mid-Century Modern Gaetano Sciolari style brass chandelier. Great Italian Mid-Century Modern Gaetano Sciolari inspired ...
Brass
Italian Mid-Century Modern Brass and Glass Chandelier, Stilnovo Style
By Gerald Thurston, Lightolier, Sciolari Lighting, Stilnovo, Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Houston, TX
Italian Mid-Century Modern brass and glass chandelier, Stilnovo style. Unusual Italian Mid-Century Modern Stilnovo style five-light b...
Brass
Italian Modern Brass Chandelier
By Stilnovo, Sciolari Lighting, Romeo Rega, Oscar Torlasco, Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Houston, TX
Italian Modern Brass Chandelier. Offered is a beautiful 10 arm brass mid-century Italian brass chandelier that has been newly wired with 10 new candelabra sockets for the U.S. market...
Brass
Large 73 Inch Italian Brass And Glass Chandelier Attributed To Stilnovo
By Arteluce, Sciolari Lighting, Oscar Torlasco, Gaetano Sciolari, Stilnovo
Located in Houston, TX
Large Scale (73 Inch) Italian Brass And Glass Chandelier Attributed To Stilnovo. This monumental Italian Modernist chandelier chandelier has a brass structure with six arms terminating in large frosted glass and brass lights. Our chandelier has been newly wired for the U.S. market. Rod can be shortened or chandelier can be hung from a chain for the appropriate height needed. We have two of these chandeliers available. A statement chandelier!
Brass
Large Gerald Thurston for Lightolier Brass, Iron and Glass Chandelier
By Sciolari Lighting, Lightolier, Stilnovo, Gaetano Sciolari, Gerald Thurston
Located in Houston, TX
Large Gerald Thurston for Lightolier brass, Iron and glass chandelier. Rare large Mid-Century Modern chandelier by Gerald Thurston for Lightolier. This stunning modernist chandelier...
Brass, Iron
Italian Brass and Glass Modernist Chandelier-Fontana Arte Style
By Max Ingrand, Fontana Arte, Pietro Chiesa
Located in Houston, TX
Italian brass and glass Modernist chandelier-Fontana Arte Style. This stunning Italian Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte style modernist brass and glass chandelier is comprised of six large opaline glass shades on a brass structure. Rod could be replaced with a longer one or could be suspended by a chain if extra height is required. This unusual chandelier...
Brass
