This past week was a busy one at Century Studios and as usual, we had several projects running concurrently. We completed a 10 Light Lily Pad base for a client. This elaborate base is specific to the 18″ Flowering Lotus shade. We also made significant progress on an 18″ Tulip shade for a client. Bill…
During the course of their production, Tiffany Studios’ lamp designers occasionally made adjustments to shade patterns. A good example of this is the 16″ Tulip and 16″ Tulip Field shades. At a passing glance, the two shades appear to have the same design, but the Tulip Field has a denser cluster of flowers at the…
Century Studios is pleased to present a new design to our line of reproduction Tiffany Studios shades, the 22″ Zodiac. Zodiac symbols were a popular design element and adorned many items created by Tiffany Studios including mosaic panels, desk set items and lamps. The same symbols and decorative filigree work used by Tiffany on all…
The 20″ Azalea has modified turban shape that is densely covered with intertwining branches, leaves and flowers. The open flowers are enhanced with beads of sculpted solder representing the flower centers, giving the shade a lively three dimensional quality. Abundant leaves, buds, and flowers cover the shade in a dense tangle, the overall effect of…
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…