David Cressey, a multi-disciplinary artist who had a six-decade career, created pottery and ceramics that revolutionized indoor/outdoor planters with their architectural style. Implementing artistic functionality into his pieces, Cressey designed in modern and mid-century modern styles. He created many planters, vases and table lamps, which remain highly desirable to collectors.
Cressey was the first artist in residence at Architectural Pottery in Los Angeles in 1961, helping to transform its urban and residential work. This was highly influential in the architecture and design worlds as the company mass-produced and sold sculptural, functional pieces.
Cressey also opened a design studio in Venice Beach, California, collaborating with Group Artec and Earthgender Ceramics. When Architectural Pottery closed in the mid-1980s due to a fire, Cressey continued to produce art, this time in the medium of mixed media on wood.
Cressey artwork evokes a similar physical and sensory experience as his vessels, lanterns and folk art ceramics. Evocatively Californian, his paintings evolved from his clay-based practice with a masterful use of color, saturation and texture. His fine art training included studying at the University of Southern California under Vivika Heino and at the University of California, Los Angeles, with Laura Andreson.
In 2006, he received the California Design Award. Museums that have exhibited his work include the Pasadena Art Museum in 1967, the Everson Museum of Art in 1961, the Oakland Museum of California in 1961 and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2011.
On 1stDibs, find a rare collection of David Cressey building and garden elements, decorative objects, lighting and more.
David Cressey Pro Artisan Ceramic Table lamp
By David Cressey
Located in San Francisco, CA
David Cressey Pro Artisan series large ceramic table lamp. Impressive and commanding scale lamp with applied geometric relief on an asymmetri...
Ceramic
Gordon & Jane Martz Ceramic Lamp
By Gordon & Jane Martz
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gordon $ Jane Martz design ceramic table lamp for Marshall Studios, U.S.A Rare form Martz lamp incorporating a turned walnut neck on a etched pattern body, signed on the back. Works ...
Ceramic
Lee Rosen for Design Technics Table Lamp
By Lee Rosen, Design Technics
Located in San Francisco, CA
Lee Rosen ceramic table lamp for Design Technics New York. Wonderful egg or oval shape ceramic body with a textured surface, very chic. In very good original condition and ready to b...
Ceramic
Bitossi Aldo Londi Table Lamp, Italy
By Bitossi
Located in San Francisco, CA
Bitossi Aldo Londi ceramic lamp with encased decoration to the center and top in Rimini blue and ocean green colors. Classical form body that i...
Ceramic
Gunnar Nylund "Rubus" Ceramic Table Lamp for Rorstrand, Sweden.
By Gunnar Nylund
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gunner Nylund "Rubus" Ceramic Table Lamp for Rorsestrand, Sweden. High quality design and execution with a mottled sea foam green color mounted on a wooden base. Adjustable shade hei...
Ceramic
Lee Rosen for Design Techniques Table Lamp
By Lee Rosen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Lee Rosen Large table lamp for Design Technics, N.Y. Oversized lamp with beautiful layers of neutral colors and original shade, stamped.
Ceramic
David Cressey Stoneware Flame Glaze Table Lamp
By David Cressey
Located in Los Angeles, CA
David Cressey flame glaze table lamp, c.1960's, USA. The wheel thrown stoneware lamp features a speckled flame glaze detail. The cream and brown glaze pattern drip lines terminate ne...
Ceramic, Linen
David Cressey Lamp
By David Cressey
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pottery lamp by David Cressey. Lamp measures 24" high from base to the bottom of socket. Ceramic portion is 20.5" high and 8" diameter. Lamp has been professionally rewired for a 3 w...
Ceramic
David Cressey Large Scale Ceramic Lamp, circa 1970
By David Cressey
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
David Cressey large scale ceramic lamp, circa 1970. This piece has been professionally rewired. Measures: 25" To the top of the socket. 19.75" To the top of the ceramic. 10....
Brass
David Cressey Flame Glaze Table Lamp, Ceramic, 1970s
By David Cressey
Located in South Jordan, UT
Stunning, large scale David Cressey flame glaze ceramic lamp circa 1970s. This lamp features unique earth tones composed of deep maroons, brown, bl...
Ceramic
David Cressey Ceramic Table Lamp for Architectural Pottery with Textured Surface
By David Cressey, Architectural Pottery
Located in Chicago, IL
Ceramic table lamp designed by David Cressey for Architectural Pottery. It has a speckled brown glaze over a creamy base color and a textural surface treatment of freely applied squi...
Ceramic
Danny Kaplan Studio Seneca Lamp, Handmade Ceramic, Modern Table Lamp
By Danny Kaplan 2
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Seneca lamp is handmade studio pottery by ceramic artist by Danny Kaplan. Shade included. Please note exact dimensions may vary. Born in New York City...
Ceramic
