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Century Studios will be closed Thursday July 4th. We will resume regular business hours on Friday July 5th.

The 18″ Oriental Poppy is a wonderfully detailed Tiffany Studios shade design. Red poppy flowers have long been a symbol of sacrifice and remembrance in western culture. This example, created in 2014 for a local client, has an explosion lush red and orange poppies set against vibrant blues, purples, and greens. Three horizontal border rows…

June is anniversary month at Century Studios. Irwin Terry and Bill Campbell opened the studio on June 1, 1986. After three years of working from our home, we moved the Studio to a commercial storefront in the North Loop of downtown Minneapolis on June 1, 1989.  These are a couple photos of our Minneapolis studio…

As the construction on the 18″ Wisteria was wrapping up we continued to make progress on the 22″ Laburnum. We usually do not follow one very elaborate lamp directly with another, but sometimes they overlap. The 22″ Laburnum has 1986 individual pieces of glass and each piece must be precisely laid out, cut, fit, and…

With its intricate detailing, the 13″ Venetian shade has the look of a delicately enameled Faberge Egg. Originally conceived to accompany the Venetian desk set, this petite shade has a higher piece count than most of the 22″ shades we offer. The Venetian has 1148 individual pieces of glass. For comparison, a 22″ Elaborate Peony…

The iconic 18″ Wisteria is one of Tiffany Studios’ signature lamp designs. The crown of cast bronze branches at the top of the shade flows into cascading flowers that finish with a naturalistic undulating lower edge. Flowers in shades of blue and purple have been skillfully blended in a tapestry of color. Highlights and shadows…

Tiffany Studios’ Acorn design (originally called a Vine Border) appears in a variety of sizes. At Century Studios, we recreate Acorn shades in the 10″, 12″, 14″ 16″, and 20″ sizes. The 10″ Acorn shade, shown here on the delicate Queen Anne’s Lace base (total lamp height 17″), works well as a small accent lamp…

This past week we made headway on the two elaborate shades we have in progress. Bill Campbell continued the layout of the 22″ Laburnum shade. With just under 2000 pieces of glass, this is a shade that takes concentration and commitment to create. Each of the pieces is individually laid out, cut and fit to…

The 25″ Fish Scale is a large helmet shaped shade that can be used as a table lamp, floor lamp or chandelier. The glass shifts from celadon green at the top down to green with amber on the lower half of the shade. We also gradually shifted the density of the glass from top to…

The 18″ Wisteria has been our primary project for the month of May. Bill Campbell selected the glass and did the layout for this elaborate lamp. This 18″ shade has 1945 individual pieces of glass, each of which must be cut, fit to the pattern, and then foiled by hand with precision. Once the pieces…