Mark your calendars for the upcoming Arts & Crafts Show, September 24th & 25th at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds. This is the 12th annual show, and we will be exhibiting again this year along with over 50 dealers of antique and reproduction furnishings and decorative arts. For more information on the show, go to…
Blooming water plants were a favorite design inspiration for Louis Comfort Tiffany. Arrowhead, waterlily, lily pad, and lotus flowers appear in windows, as decorative elements on numerous items, and in several lamps created by Tiffany Studios. Tiffany’s signature dragonfly shades, and several fish lamp designs continue the fascination with pond life. We have recently completed…
A recent addition to our showroom is this colorful 20″ Nasturtium Shade. The shade has a non-repeating pattern, and the saucer-like shape is the perfect vehicle for this Tiffany Studios design. Usually a shade will utilize three or four repeated sections to create the shade, although there are also two, five, seven and even nine…
Today we introduce two new non-stained glass offerings to our showroom. The first is a 5 Light Ceiling Fixture. This ceiling light is 14″ across and flush mounts to any ceiling box. It has 5 pendant blown trumpet shades interspersed with 5 gold lustre glass balls. The pendant balls are positioned to reflect the light…
Deep amber glass was used to create this 15″ Spider Lamp for an Illinois client. The glass used was a semi-transparent golden amber/red amber mix. The rich tones give this shade the warm glow of smoldering embers from a dying fire. The Spider lamp combines geometric and representational design sensibilities, and continues to be a…
A recent addition to our showroom is this Plum Blossom window. The window pictures a flowering branch from a plum tree in a vase. Three layers of plated glass were used to create the vase, and additional plating was done on the table cloth. The design on the vase was achieved by hand cutting a…
This past week, a new flock of Wally Birds flew in from Bur Oak Pottery in Wisconsin. Wally Birds were originally created by the Martin Brothers Pottery in England in the late 19th/early 20th century. They are named after creator Wallace Martin, the eldest of this eccentric family of potters. Taking inspiration from the originals,…
New to our showroom is this 18″ Oak Leaf shade. The pattern is one of the many “banded” shade designs created by Tiffany Studios. The decorative band consist of oak leaves and acorns swirling across the shade, while the geometric upper and lower borders provide a calming influence.We created this example with a light green…
This week we are very excited to add another new shade design to our lamp offerings – the 20″ Daffodil Turban. This Tiffany Studios’ design has a stylized naturalism which represents the best of the Tiffany floral shades. The flowers, while “growing” on the shade as if in a garden, are placed mirror image in…
This past week we completed a 22″ Geometric lamp for a Midwest client. This large “brickwork” design is often called the “O’Brien Brick”, possibly because the original Tiffany Studios’ client was named O’Brien. Our client requested a dramatic shift in color on the shade. The rich red at the top of the shade blends down…