Gorgeous! Handcrafted Italian Rattan & Brass Table Lamp 1970s MCM Designer Decor

MONUMENTAL BAMBOO & WALNUT POLYNESIAN STYLE TABLE LAMP In the Manner of McGuire & Wakefield Circa 1947-1950 At the very beginning of the Post-War Polynesian or South Pacific craze which took over America during the late forties and fifties, there were precious few importers of fine bamboo furnishings. John & Elinore McGuire set up shop in California to do just that and their works are legendary for quality and durabiity. The time required to cut, soak, bend and shape bamboo into permanently sculpted forms was substantial and the exotic material was only available in quantity in the South Pacific. This lamp is an extremely rare, early example of a Bamboo lamp done in Polynesian (later Tiki) style. You seldom see any of these lamps, because they were very scarce new and even fewer have survived the past 70 years since their manufacture. It was likely created & imported in very small numbers around 1950 and sold through an early importer such as McGuire. Many bamboo importers were direct-to-decorator importers who advertised in Interiors or House & Garden magazine. The shape is based on the style of bamboo work used to create thatched huts and housing in the South Pacific islands - bamboo, cut, soaked and shaped and then tied with cane binding. This one has a double stacked oversized walnut base to provided stability to this enormous lamp...

RARE PAUL FRANKL! MID CENTURY BAMBOO TABLE LAMP BURLAP SHADE MID CENTURY PANACHE! Dimensions: 28" TALL 18" WIDE 18" DEEP This striking bamboo wicker table lamp is warm and inv...

EXQUISITE! HEIFETZ ABSTRACT, MODERN SCULPTED STEEL & TEAK TABLE LAMP! VERY RARE! CLEAN! Dimensions: 27" Tall By 18" Wide 1950s Heifetz Teak and Sculptured Enameled Wire Table L...

Stunning! Mid Century Black & Brass Bamboo Themed Table Lamp! Attributed to Speer Lighting. Here is a marvelous mcm lamp with a really elegant faux bamboo appearance! Black and brass give this lamp a majestic appearance! Speer Lighting produced some of the finest mid century lamps and they produced much elegant bamboo themed lighting. Being a high-end manufacturer, they were scarce new and now Speer lamps...

A striking and generously scaled table lamp from Italy 1970s. Its substantial circular base is composed of meticulously hand-woven horizontal layers of rattan, each band revealing th...

Large Rattan Table Lamp with Wickear Weave Lampshade Italian Designer, entire made by hand. Eyecatching rattan table lamp with woven wicker wire conical lampshade, Italy, 1960s. This...

A brass table lamp designed and produced in Italy, 1970s. Wear consistent with age and use. Dimensions of Lamp (inches): 13.0” Height x 12.25” Diameter Dimensions of Shade (inches...

Stunning Mid-Century large table lamp fully made in curved rattan and brass and completed by a round parchment paper lampshade. This stylish and unique organic table lamp was designe...