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Lamp of the Week: 20″ Windswept Daffodil

Lamp of the Week: 20″ Windswept Daffodil

It is well known that Louis Comfort Tiffany’s favorite flower was the daffodil, and the flower appears on lamp shades ranging from 14″ to 28″. The 20″ Windswept Daffodil is a lively rendition of this bright, cheery springtime flower with the blooms dancing across the surface of the shade. Commissioned by a New Jersey client…

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The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus was painted in the late 1400’s by Sandro Botticelli. This classic painting depicts the goddess Venus, emerging from the sea as an adult on an open clam shell. She is calmly being blown towards the shore where she will be robed by a waiting handmaiden. It is generally believed that the…

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Lamp of the Week: 24″ Snowball

Lamp of the Week: 24″ Snowball

This 24″ Snowball shade features a variety of glasses in a blended color scheme. Set against a stunning purple sky, the flower clusters are rendered in a variety of off whites, greens, and amber tones. The abundant foliage has greens tinged with purple, yellow, and amber, giving the shade an Impressionistic coloration. Snowball bushes can…

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16″ Acorn and New Wally Birds

16″ Acorn and New Wally Birds

Just completed for our showroom is this 16″ Acorn shade. The lively green glass gives the shade an air of springtime freshness. The shade is shown on the Leaves of Grass Pottery base and is currently available for purchase in our showroom. We have two new Wally Birds from the master potters at Bur Oak…

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Lamp of the Week: 18″ Tulip

Lamp of the Week: 18″ Tulip

Tulips are one of the first flowers to make an appearance in the Spring. With their seemingly endless array of colors and showy blooms, tulips are a natural flower to be featured on Tiffany shade designs. This 18″ Tulip shade has a variety of peach, pink, and yellow flowers. Shown on the sculptural Mock Turtle…

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Lamp of the Week: 28″ Magnolia

Lamp of the Week: 28″ Magnolia

One of the most recognizable Tiffany Studios shade designs, the 28″ Magnolia can be used as a large chandelier fixture or on a Senior Floor base. The Magnolia is one of the few shade designs which utilize drapery glass, a hand folded sheet glass that gives a highly three dimensional look to the shade. We…

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Lamp of the Week: 10 Light Lily Table Lamp

Lamp of the Week: 10 Light Lily Table Lamp

A milestone in the history of lighting design, Louis Comfort Tiffany introduced the Lily Table Lamp in the 1890’s, showing the world what could be created with an electric light bulb and some imagination. This illuminated sculpture is inspired by a cluster of water lilies, with the lustre glass flowers nodding gently above the bronze…

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Easter Memorial Windows

Easter Memorial Windows

In March, we completed a pair of Resurrection-themed Memorial Windows for St. Paul’s Episcopalian Church in Owatonna, Minnesota. Commissioned as a memorial by the Krysto family, the pair of windows feature Easter themes. Installed in the entry to the church, the windows are placed as shown above – the first window (on the right as…

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Whirlpool Window

Whirlpool Window

At Century Studios, we have created quite a few windows and suncatchers based on the artwork John R. Neill created for the Wizard of Oz book series. The series ran from 1900 well into the 1940’s and all but the first book were lavishly illustrated by Neill. At the beginning of The Scarecrow of Oz,…

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