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18″ Cobweb & Apple Blossom on Wheat Mosaic Base

18″ Cobweb & Apple Blossom on Wheat Mosaic Base

Century Studios closed out 2019 on a high note, completing a commission for an 18″ Cobweb & Apple Blossom shade on a Wheat Mosaic base. 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. Each…

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Welcome 2020

Welcome 2020

Century Studios resumes regular business hours today. Century Studios is welcoming 2020 with an expanded list of available lamp parts. We began manufacturing our own line of parts this past summer when Odyssey Lamp Systems ceased production of lamp bases and metalwork.We have a list the parts now available on our website in the Gallery/More/Lamp…

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Year End 2019

Year End 2019

Century Studios is closed for the holidays and will reopen on Thursday January 2. Here is a preview of the first two lamps we will complete in 2020. We would like to thank everyone who has made 2019 an exciting and stimulating year at the studio. We truly appreciate all of your comments, questions (both…

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Lamp of the Week: 22″ Poinsettia

Lamp of the Week: 22″ Poinsettia

The 22″ Poinsettia shade depicts a cluster of plants bursting forth through a formal trellis. A variety of reds tinged with blue, purple, and yellow were blended together for the plants. The light blue background glass at the top of the shade deepens to purple and amber. Unifying these colors is the multicolored trellis glass…

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Lamp Bases

Lamp Bases

Our foundry work has increased dramatically in recent months, and we have been completing several lamp base projects over the past few weeks. We recently shipped a Small Stick and Twisted Vine base, each going to clients on a different coast. A pair of Twisted Vine w/Arms left the studio on Friday en route to…

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Lamp of the Week: 16″ Poinsettia

Lamp of the Week: 16″ Poinsettia

The 16″ Poinsettia shade has a geometric background with a wide decorative border of colorful plants. The warm amber tones of the background are a perfect backdrop for the lively greens and reds of the poinsettias. The shade is shown on the Flower Petal w/Arms base. This lamp was commissioned in 2004 and is in…

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16″ Dragonfly shade on Dragonfly Mosaic Urn base

16″ Dragonfly shade on Dragonfly Mosaic Urn base

The 16″ Dragonfly is one of our most popular Tiffany shade designs. The pattern has an elegant simplicity, with seven dragonflies hovering in formation over a stylized background. The delicately filigreed wings of each dragonfly overlap one another as they encircle the shade. A green glass mixed with blue was chosen for the body of…

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Lamp of the Week: 18″ Flowering Lotus

Lamp of the Week: 18″ Flowering Lotus

The 18″ Flowering Lotus Lamp is one of the most detailed and technically challenging lamps we offer. With almost 1800 individual pieces of glass within the confines of a relatively small shade, this shade must be meticulously hand crafted and assembled. For comparison, the 28″ Magnolia shade has 1260 pieces of glass. Commissioned in 2017…

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20″ Azalea

20″ Azalea

The 20″ Azalea has several unique features which give the shade a unique personality.The unusual modified turban shape enhances the look of a plant growing upwards, spreading its flowering branches towards the sun in springtime. The open flowers are enhanced with beads of sculpted solder representing the flower centers. The added solder gives the shade…

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Holiday Hours

Holiday Hours

Century Studios Holiday Hours: Closed Thanksgiving Day, Thursday November 28 Regular Business Hours Friday November 29 through Saturday December 21 Closed Sunday December 22 through Wednesday January 1

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