Lamp designed by KARL SPRINGER. Lamp is mid century modern. Piece has stacked Lucite base, silver toned metal bulb sockets & beaded pull switches. Lamp includes finial. Lamp measures approximately 29 inches tall 10 inches wide. Lamp, table lamp, side table lamp, end table lamp, mid century modern, mid century modern lamp, Karl Springer lamp, lucite lamp, lucite table lamp, stack lucite table lamp, lighting. The Berlin-born, New York?based designer Karl Springer brought a chic, high-fashion sensibility to his coffee tables, mirrors, Lucite lamps and other furnishings. During his heyday in the 1970s, Springers work was a favorite of the glamour set, who enjoyed the novelty of pieces finished in rich and striking materials that ranged from exotic hides and skins to lacquer and chromed metal.In a sense, Springer was a pre-postmodernist. Much as the dull, safe, corporate sameness of late 20th-century modernism prompted Ettore Sottsass, Michael Graves and others to explore new and provocative structures and materials in design and architecture, so, too, was Springer driven to enliven his creations with fresh and alluring energy and sleekness.Springer came to New York in the late 1950s and found work arranging window displays at the department store Lord & Taylor. He had studied bookbinding in Germany, and, using his meticulous skills, he began crafting desk accessories wrapped in leather as a sideline. These pieces were sold in luxury stores like Bergdorf Goodman and drew a sophisticated clientele that included the Duchess of Windsor. 6L