Century Studios will be closed Saturday July 13. We will resume regular business hours on Tuesday July 16. (the geranium lamp pictured was created in 2015 and has been sold)
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Lamp of the Week: 20″ Arrowhead & Studio Hours
Studio Hours: Century Studios will be closing at 4pm on Friday July 12th and will be closed Saturday July 13th. The pattern of the 20″ Arrowhead has a distinct Arts and Crafts sensibility. This design has a fairly unique Tiffany Studios approach – representational, yet stylized and rhythmic in its execution. Arrowhead plants can be…
22″ Laburnum
The 22″ Laburnum has been completed. This complex shade has 1988 individual pieces of glass. The laburnum tree will grow to a height of 15 – 25 feet. The pendulous yellow flower clusters have inspired the nickname of “golden chain tree”. This 22″ shade is quite versatile and can be used as a table lamp,…
Studio Hours
Century Studios will be closed Thursday July 4th. We will resume regular business hours on Friday July 5th.
Lamp of the Week: 18″ Oriental Poppy
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…
Century Studios 38th Anniversary
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…
22″ Laburnum Continued
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…
Lamp of the Week: 13″ Venetian
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…
18″ Wisteria
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…
Lamp of the Week: 10″ Acorn
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…