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Lamp of the Week: 28″ Poinsettia

Lamp of the Week: 28″ Poinsettia

Considered a decorative holiday plant, poinsettias are flowering perennial shrubs that can grow to ten feet tall in natural settings. The talented designers at Tiffany Studios created a wide variety of sizes and styles of poinsettia shades. The 28″ Poinsettia shade is the largest poinsettia shade we offer. This generously proportioned shade has a non…

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16″ Acorn

16″ Acorn

Just completed and available for purchase from our showroom is this 16″ Acorn shade. With its elegant simplicity, the 16″ Acorn is a shade that is at home in any interior as a featured or accent lamp. A mottled celadon green glass is used for the body of the lamp. The glass for the acorns…

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Lamp of the Week: 18″ Oriental Poppy

Lamp of the Week: 18″ Oriental Poppy

Bursting with colorful flowers, the 18″ Oriental Poppy is a delightfully complex Tiffany lamp design. Three horizontal border rows barely contain the exuberant blooms as they create a three dimensional vista of color. This example, created in 2014 for a local client, has an explosion lush red and orange poppies  set against vibrant blues, purples,…

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22″ Geometric

22″ Geometric

The 22″ Geometric shade is a large, impressive shade that can be created in any coloration. For this piece, we began with a deep red at the top and gently shifted the color to a rich amber tone at the bottom. The brickwork positioning of the glass tiles gives the shade a stable appearance. This…

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Lamp of the Week: 18″ Grape

Lamp of the Week: 18″ Grape

With its lush foliage and fully ripened grapes, the 18″ Grape is one of Tiffany Studios’ most successful lamp designs. The shade begins with a cast bronze crown of open branches at the top that mates with the sturdy Tree Trunk base (23″ tall).  The glass continues the flow of the branchwork and cascades downwards,…

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16″ Snowball

16″ Snowball

The 16″ Snowball shade is the tabletop version of the large 24″ Snowball dome. The unusually deep shape of the shade is accentuated by the undulations of the lower edge, giving the shade a natural feel. For this piece, we chose a stunning blue glass for the sky. The flowers and leaves are a lively…

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Lamp of the Week: Mermaid with Nautilus Shell

Lamp of the Week: Mermaid with Nautilus Shell

The Mermaid with Nautilus Shell lamp depicts a bronze double-tailed mermaid riding the crest of a wave while holding a lit nautilus shell above her head. Tiffany Studios used the nautilus shade on a few different bases, but this has always been the most coveted shade/base combination. The color of the shade gently shifts from…

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16″ Pomegranate

16″ Pomegranate

The 16″ Pomegranate features a decorative border of eighteen pomegranates that encircle the shade in pleasant repetition. The amber tone of the shade plays off of the green glaze of the 7 Handled Pottery base. The lamp base is from our discontinued line of Grueby style pottery bases (see our post from October 15, 2020)….

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Lamp of the Week: 22″ Elaborate Peony

Lamp of the Week: 22″ Elaborate Peony

With its intricate piecework and the suggestion of movement, the 22″ Elaborate (or Windswept) Peony is aptly named. The generous scale of the shade allows the glass artist to explore the Impressionistic nature of the design. As a challenge to ourselves, we decided to make this lamp with a two sided color scheme. One side…

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A Foundry Pickup

A Foundry Pickup

This past week we went to our foundry to drop off waxes for upcoming projects and pick up the bronze castings that were completed. Our foundry is an hours drive in both directions from the studio. Since reopening after a several month state mandated shutdown of all non essential businesses this past spring, the foundry…

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