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14″ Geranium

14″ Geranium

At this time of year, geraniums are the ubiquitous flowers that brighten gardens, porches, and yards. The 14″ Geranium is a compact shade that packs the same colorful punch as its potted inspiration, but will brighten a home year round. For this example, the flowers are a cheerful red tinged with white against a warm,…

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Lamp of the Week: 18″ Apple Blossom

Lamp of the Week: 18″ Apple Blossom

The 18″ Apple Blossom lamp is one of the four large tree-style Tiffany reproduction lamps we offer at Century Studios. This example was commissioned in 2011 by a client in the Chicago area. The cascading shade features a heavy cast bronze crown at the top and an irregular lower edge. The background glass chosen for…

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18″ Peacock Lamp

18″ Peacock Lamp

With their distinctively colorful plumage, Peacocks were often featured in Tiffany Studios windows, mosaics, and lamps. The 18″ Peacock is an elaborate shade design consisting of overlapping peacock tail feathers swirling across the surface of the shade. Horizontal border rows provide a visual resting point to the viewer. To create this shade, Bill chose three…

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Lamp of the Week: 20″ Lily Pad

Lamp of the Week: 20″ Lily Pad

Tiffany lamps usually feature plants and flowers rendered life sized, but the 20″ Lily Pad shade is an exception to this design philosophy. Consisting of just two elements, floating lily pads on water, this shade uses forced perspective to make the pads at the top of the shade appear in to recede into the distance….

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28″ Hollyhock

28″ Hollyhock

When Tiffany Studios designed floral themed stained glass shades, the flowers were rendered life size. To create a natural look, the size and shape of the shade will often be dictated by the flower depicted. The 28″ Hollyhock shade is an excellent example of how the subject influenced the final shade design. The vertical nature…

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Lamp of the Week: 16″ Daisy

Lamp of the Week: 16″ Daisy

The 16″ Daisy Shade is a Century Studios hybrid of a Tiffany Studios shade design. The shade pattern is actually the 16″ Black Eyed Susan, but for years Bill had been speculating that the pattern would look wonderful in daisy colors. While this variation is a Century Studios’ idea, it was not unusual for Tiffany…

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Lamp of the Week: 14″ Dragonfly

Lamp of the Week: 14″ Dragonfly

The 14″ Dragonfly shade is a small lamp with a large personality. For this example, green dragonflies hover over a jeweled pond of heavily rippled blue/green glass tinged with yellow and white. The ripple glass was created by Schlitz Studios in the early 1990’s (Schlitz closed in the mid 90’s) and waited patiently for over…

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14″ Geometric with Lustre Balls

14″ Geometric with Lustre Balls

Tiffany Studios created geometric shades with many unusual details that individualize the look of the shade. The 14″ Geometric with Lustre Balls has the addition of a row of glass lustre balls bisecting the upper and lower portions of the geometric glass tiles. Each hand made ball has a Tiffany lustre surface and is held…

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Lamp of the Week: 18″ Trumpet Vine

Lamp of the Week: 18″ Trumpet Vine

The Trumpet Vine s one of the four Tiffany Studios 18″ shade designs that are topped by a cast crown of openwork branches from which the shade cascades downwards. This shade mixes intensely colored orange/red/yellow flowers and lush foliage against a rich multicolored background. To create the piece, the glasses used include a variety of…

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