On Sunday February 7, Irwin Terry and Bill Campbell gave a presentation about Tiffany lamps and Century Studio’s work reproducing these famous designs to the Twin Cities Bungalow Club. The 1-1/2 hour presentation began with a history of Tiffany Studios, and how Tiffany lamps have become the gold standard for all stained glass lighting. We…
Bill has completed the preliminary work for our next window project: Renoir’s On the Terrace. Translating any Impressionist painting into a stained glass window is a challenge because there are few hard lines or clear delineations to the images. The first step to creating any stained glass piece is to make the cartoon. When working…
Things have been moving along in the new studio space. Upstairs, the glass rack is working its way skyward at the back half of the studio. Bill has been painting the grey walls on the lower level a bright, crisp white. Early last week, we completed our “Four Seasons” window project for a client in…
The 16″ Pansy lamp which was commissioned by a Minnesota couple has been completed (see posting on 1/12/09 for “Part 1” of this shade’s construction). Once the foiled pieces of glass had been transferred onto the waxed form, Irwin soldered the shade. When the soldering was completed, the shade was cleaned, plated, patinated and is…
While Bill is laying out the remaining two panels of the “Four Seasons” windows for our Wisconsin client, Irwin has been working on several geometric shades, as well as a floral design at the same time. Talk about multi-tasking! The floral shade nearing completion is a 16″ Pansy for a local client. The pansy is…
It is now 2009 and Century Studios is back up and running on our normal schedule. Just before Christmas, we signed a lease for our new studio space in St. Paul, MN. We will update our blog as work on the new space progresses. We hope to move the studio in the spring, and there…
It is the end of the year, and Century Studios will be closed from December 24th through January 1st. We hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and look forward to creating more great things for you all in 2009! Here are some photos to make you smile. These are pictures of our rescue dogs for…
Our final lamp project of 2008 was a large 22″ Turtleback Turban. Created for our showroom, this impressive lamp can be used as a large table lamp, on a Junior Floor Base or as a chandelier fixture. The shade is shown on the Eiffel Tower Base. The turtleback tiles were hand cut and faceted from…
This past week, we finished up a pair of the Four Seasons windows we are creating for a client in Wisconsin. The scenes depicted show local vistas. We finished soldering the Autumn panel early in the week and Winter soon followed. While we are waiting for the final decisions on the images for the Spring…
When the lamp department at Tiffany Studios developed a successful design for a stained glass shade, it was usually worked up at several different sizes and shapes. This way, if a client wanted to accent an interior with more than one lamp in the same style, or if they liked a floral motif but needed…