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Single digit temperatures and bouts of snow make February in Minnesota a good month to hunker down and work on projects. Next week we will introduce a new design to our catalog of reproduction Tiffany shade designs.

The 16″ Cyclamen shade is a rarely seen Tiffany Studios shade pattern. The flowers for this shade were made from “gold pink” glass that was created by Schlitz Studios in the 1980’s. Gold can produce beautiful pinks (and purples) that have a distinctive fuchsia tone, which is perfect for cyclamen flowers. The delicate blooms hover…

The elegant simplicity of the 16″ Acorn make this lamp design as popular today as it was in the early 1900’s. Tiffany Studios originally called this pattern the “Vine Border, plain squares, dome”, but the pattern is referred to as “acorn” today. We recently completed this 16″ Acorn for a client in Omaha. The cheery…

The 14″ Dragonfly shade is a small lamp with a large personality. For this example, green dragonflies hover over a jeweled pond of heavily rippled blue/green glass tinged with yellow and white. The ripple glass chosen for this shade was created by Schlitz Studios in the early 1990’s (Schlitz closed in the mid 90’s). We…

The 14″ Geranium shade is a compact lamp with a lot of pizazz. Deep cherry red flower clusters rise up from masses of sun dappled leaves while the fracture/streamer glass background provides contrast to the richly mottled leaves. The horizontal border rows anchor the design and add additional color to the lower portion of the…

The 18″ Cobweb shade is an unusual Tiffany Studios shade design with thick, cast metal branches making up the irregular lower rim and extending up into the shade itself. The Wheat Mosaic base is intricately detailed with a hand applied glass mosaic background in between bronze wheat shafts and foliage in relief rising up between…

At Century Studios we create pieces in the order they were commissioned. Occasionally we have two of the same shade designs ordered one after another or ordered as a pair, but this is the first time we have had three shades in a row being created for three different clients. The coloration for this 16″…

One of the most recognizable Tiffany Studios shade designs, the 28″ Magnolia can be used as a large chandelier fixture or as a floor lamp. The Magnolia is one of the few shade designs which utilize drapery glass, a hand folded sheet glass that gives a highly three dimensional look to the shade. We created…

Our first completed lamp of the new year is a 16″ Dragonfly. Commissioned by a local client, this richly colored shade has orange/amber dragonflies flying over a deep blue/green background. The shade was commissioned by a local client and is shown on the Small Stick base (20″ tall).

Commissioned in 2014 as a wedding gift for a couple in San Francisco, this 12″ Dogwood shade is bright and cheerful. The shade is mated with the highly detailed Mushroom base (16″ tall).