At Tiffany Studios, lamps were conceived to bring the excitement of stained glass windows off the walls and into the room – while still performing the functional service of providing light. The 28″ cone shaped shades were intended as large chandelier fixtures that would be the focal point of any space they occupied. Most of…
The 10″ Pansy is a compact shade with a large personality. Designed by Bill Campbell in 2013, this is a Century Studios original shade pattern. The dome shaped shade is covered in brilliantly colored flowers. With red, yellow, blue and deep purple flowers playfully competing for attention against a blue background, the shade has a…
The 16″ Cyclamen shade is a rarely seen Tiffany Studios shade pattern. The flowers for this shade were made from “gold pink” glass that was created by Schlitz Studios in the 1980’s. Gold can produce beautiful pinks (and purples) that have a distinctive fuchsia tone, which is perfect for cyclamen flowers. The delicate blooms hover…
With several active projects at different stages, we have spent this past week multitasking. The week began with Irwin Terry completing the soldering on a shade while Bill Campbell continued the layout of an 18″ Wisteria shade. Bill took time mid-week to do some patina work and Irwin moved over to cutting the wisteria pieces…
Daffodils were Louis Comfort Tiffany’s favorite flower, so it comes as no surprise that Tiffany Studios produced daffodil lamps in numerous sizes and shapes. The 14″ Daffodil is the smallest of the various daffodil shade designs we create. Springtime greens in the leaves are accented by the green ripple glass in the border rows. Sunny…
This past week we completed the 24″ Snowball shade. This design is often mistakenly referred to as a hydrangea, but the original Tiffany Studios price lists identify the design as a snowball. Hydrangea flowers are more conical in shape while snowball flowers are round. Snowball bushes can reach heights and widths of 8 to 20…
The 14″ Dragonfly is a compact shade 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 chosen for this shade was created by Schlitz Studios in the late 1980’s/early 90’s (Schlitz closed in the mid 90’s). We…
Stuffed to bursting with beautiful blooms, the 16″ Tulip Field is a garden of springtime delights. Lush green leaves fill the lower half of the shade with sturdy flower stems reaching upwards from rich garden soil. The upper portion of this extravagant design presents masses of flowers clustered together with almost no sky peeking through. …
The 10″ Azalea is a small shade with a large personality. The design is segmented into sections by border rows, yet these can barely contain the exuberant foliage and flowers that fill the shade. The flowers are a lusty deep red while the leaves have a variety of mixed green tones. Blue sky peeks through…
A milestone in the history of lighting design, Louis Comfort Tiffany introduced lily table lamps in the 1890’s and showed the world what could be created with an electric light bulb and some imagination. This lamp is inspired by a cluster of water lilies, with the lustre glass flowers nodding gently above the bronze lily…