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Turtleback Lantern Trio

Turtleback Lantern Trio

We recently completed a trio of Turtleback Hanging Lanterns for a client in California. The lanterns will be incorporated into the decor at the client’s winery. Turtleback Lanterns can be made using green, amber and deep black cherry red turtleback tiles. For these fixtures our client chose the deep red turtlebacks. In the photo showing…

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Lamp of the Week: 18″ Trumpet Vine

Lamp of the Week: 18″ Trumpet Vine

The 18″ Trumpet Vine lamp is one of the four Tiffany Studios 18″ shade designs intended for use on the Large Tree Trunk base (23″ tall). The sculpted cast metal openwork crown at the top of the shade flows into the stained glass naturally by the inclusion of heavy branch work that appears throughout the…

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Bird Skeleton Base

Bird Skeleton Base

Century Studios is pleased to reintroduce the Bird Skeleton base to our lamp base offerings. The base, sometimes referred to as the Organic Root base, has four lights, is 26″ tall, and can be used with 20″ or 22″ shades. We used to get this base from Odyssey until they ceased producing metalwork. We now…

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Lamp of the Week: 16″ Peacock Feather

Lamp of the Week: 16″ Peacock Feather

The bold design of the 16″ Peacock Feather shade has the symmetry of a repetitive geometric pattern softened by natural curves of a feather. Beginning with a strong amber tone at the top, the color shifts into green, teal, and ends in cobalt blue at the bottom. These colors are reflected in the peacock “eyes”…

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16″ Geometric

16″ Geometric

Geometric shades work in any decor and can be created in a wide variety of glass colors. Blue and green mottled glass was chosen to enliven this 16″ Geometric shade. Commissioned by a client in Tennessee, the shade is shown on the Tall Flower Petal base (20″ tall).

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Lamp of the Week: Oz Logo Shade

Lamp of the Week: Oz Logo Shade

Designed by Bill Campbell in the 1980’s, our Oz Logo shade has long been a dormant Century Studios original lamp design. Bill adapted the logo design into a decorative band for this shade, adding a pressed glass “emerald” between each logo. After creating several examples in the late ’80’s/early 90’s for Books of Wonder, a…

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Bonus Lamp of the Week: 17″ Bat Lamp

Bonus Lamp of the Week: 17″ Bat Lamp

Tiffany Studios introduced the Bat Lamp around 1903 and only four original examples of this most unusual lamp are known. While Western culture often presents bats as harbingers of evil, Japanese culture associates bats with happiness, a long healthy life and wealth, and Native American Culture views bats in a spiritual light, symbolizing acute powers…

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Lamp of the Week: 16″ Cyclamen

Lamp of the Week: 16″ Cyclamen

The 16″ Cyclamen is a rarely seen Tiffany Studios lamp design. The distinctly shaped pink, white, and purple flowers float on delicate stems above a bed of lush green foliage. The flower stems are represented by the vertical lead lines, keeping the design light and airy. The shade is shown on the Greek Urn base….

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10″ Acorn Pair

10″ Acorn Pair

Following closely on the heels of the pair of 16″ Geranium shades we completed a few weeks ago is another pair of shades, a matching set of 10″ Acorn shades. Commissioned by a client in California, the shades will be used with original Tiffany Studipos harp lamps. One shade is shown on the delicate Dandelion…

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Lamp of the Week: 18″ Alamander

Lamp of the Week: 18″ Alamander

The Alamander (also called Allamander and Allamanda) is a a large flowering shrub that is often found near streams and ponds. It is often called “Golden Trumpet” even though cultivated varieties can have yellow, white, or purple flowers. For this 18″ Alalamander shade a variety of deep orange, amber and yellow flowers are contrasted against…

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