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- "Lumina" Table Lamp, 1999 - Starting in the early 1980s--and already established as an internationally recognized architect--Michael Graves began to pursue a parallel career as a product designer. Over the following three and a half decades he and his collaborators designed everything from humble household goods to limited edition luxury items for clients as diverse as Steuben, Alessi, Target, J. C. Penney, and Disney.
- 1999
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"Lumina" Table Lamp, 1999
Starting in the early 1980s--and already established as an internationally recognized architect--Michael Graves began to pursue a parallel career as a product designer. Over the following three and a half decades he and his collaborators designed everything from humble household goods to limited edition luxury items for clients as diverse as Steuben, Alessi, Target, J. C. Penney, and Disney.
- Electric Table Lamp, 1960-1970 - Made by the Cooper Lamp Company of Chicago, known for producing high-end lamps for discriminating customers, this lamp is a good example of upper middle-class living room lamps of the 1960s. The swirl design in metal on the ceramic base echoes patterns found in contemporary sculpture, but the imitation grass-cloth plastic shade betrays its intention for the middle-class market.
- 1960-1970
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Electric Table Lamp, 1960-1970
Made by the Cooper Lamp Company of Chicago, known for producing high-end lamps for discriminating customers, this lamp is a good example of upper middle-class living room lamps of the 1960s. The swirl design in metal on the ceramic base echoes patterns found in contemporary sculpture, but the imitation grass-cloth plastic shade betrays its intention for the middle-class market.
- "Cobra" Table Lamp, circa 1946 - Industrial designer Jean Otis Reinecke is not very well known today, but the products he designed certainly are. He designed numerous iconic products of the 20th century, including the 3M Scotch tape dispenser, McGraw Electric Company's Toastmaster model 19B, which became the model for all other toasters for decades to follow, as well as this "Cobra" Table Lamp for Faries Manufacturing Company.
- circa 1946
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"Cobra" Table Lamp, circa 1946
Industrial designer Jean Otis Reinecke is not very well known today, but the products he designed certainly are. He designed numerous iconic products of the 20th century, including the 3M Scotch tape dispenser, McGraw Electric Company's Toastmaster model 19B, which became the model for all other toasters for decades to follow, as well as this "Cobra" Table Lamp for Faries Manufacturing Company.
- Table Lamp Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama - In 2023, The Henry Ford acquired the Selma, Alabama, home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, where Dr. Martin Luther King and Civil Rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights marches. The Jackson Home opened in Greenfield Village in 2026. The home and its contents not only document the voting rights struggle but also shed light on 20th-century Black American middle-class life.
- 1955-1959
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Table Lamp Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama
In 2023, The Henry Ford acquired the Selma, Alabama, home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, where Dr. Martin Luther King and Civil Rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights marches. The Jackson Home opened in Greenfield Village in 2026. The home and its contents not only document the voting rights struggle but also shed light on 20th-century Black American middle-class life.
- Table Lamp Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama -
- Collections - Artifact
Table Lamp Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama
- Lamps Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama - In 2023, The Henry Ford acquired the Selma, Alabama, home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, where Dr. Martin Luther King and Civil Rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights marches. The Jackson Home opened in Greenfield Village in 2026. The home and its contents not only document the voting rights struggle but also shed light on 20th-century Black American middle-class life.
- circa 1961
- Collections - Artifact
Lamps Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama
In 2023, The Henry Ford acquired the Selma, Alabama, home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, where Dr. Martin Luther King and Civil Rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights marches. The Jackson Home opened in Greenfield Village in 2026. The home and its contents not only document the voting rights struggle but also shed light on 20th-century Black American middle-class life.
- Table Lamp Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama -
- circa 1961
- Collections - Artifact
Table Lamp Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama
- Kerosene Table Lamp, 1875-1885 -
- 1875-1885
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Kerosene Table Lamp, 1875-1885
- Table Lamp, circa 1975 - This lamp embodies the essence of 1970s middle-class taste. Its bright burnt umber base stands out -- probably competing with other boldly colored living room furnishings. The pierced and textured surface of the base lights up -- literally. Even the simple cylindrical shade with its multi-textured band and surface attracts attention -- adding more to a room filled with "more."
- circa 1975
- Collections - Artifact
Table Lamp, circa 1975
This lamp embodies the essence of 1970s middle-class taste. Its bright burnt umber base stands out -- probably competing with other boldly colored living room furnishings. The pierced and textured surface of the base lights up -- literally. Even the simple cylindrical shade with its multi-textured band and surface attracts attention -- adding more to a room filled with "more."
- Double Socket Table Lamp, 2004 - Starting in the early 1980s--and already established as an internationally recognized architect--Michael Graves began to pursue a parallel career as a product designer. Over the following three and a half decades he and his collaborators designed everything from humble household goods to limited edition luxury items for clients as diverse as Steuben, Alessi, Target, J. C. Penney, and Disney.
- 2004
- Collections - Artifact
Double Socket Table Lamp, 2004
Starting in the early 1980s--and already established as an internationally recognized architect--Michael Graves began to pursue a parallel career as a product designer. Over the following three and a half decades he and his collaborators designed everything from humble household goods to limited edition luxury items for clients as diverse as Steuben, Alessi, Target, J. C. Penney, and Disney.