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B-4 Table Lamp

The B-4 Table Lamp by Greta M. Grossman

was designed in 1945 and bears her whimsical

and powerful signature style. With playful

angles and geometric elements, the table

lamp is characterized by its colourful and

movable visors allowing light to diffuse softly

around any table it stands on. The lamp fits

effortlessly into almost any environment,

adding a dash of American modernism

panache to the room.

The silhouette of the B-4 Table Lamp, with its

stilt base and alternating colour panels, resem-

bles some of Greta M. Grossman’s most iconic

architecture more than any other design item

from her career. Typically, her houses were

perched high up on stilts with cantilevered

decks and walls of glass to take in the magnifi-

cent hillside views of Southern California - and

with a fanciful style the B-4 Table Lamp beau-

tifully reflects her modernist design principles.