Commissioned by an out of state client, this 16″ Banded Daffodil lamp features warm tones of amber, green and yellow. The background glass was cut from an unusual piece of fracture glass and the flowers have a dappled sunlight effect. The blended color scheme is accentuated by the deep amber borders. The shade is shown…
We have completed the 18″ Grape lamp shown in production in an earlier post. This shade is one of four 18″ tree-style shades by Tiffany Studios which were designed to mate with the large Tree Trunk base. These tree style shades have a large cast bronze crown of openwork branches at the top. The…
Over the past week, Bill has completed cutting and fitting all the pieces for the Oz window. He has also finished all the painting and firing, so it’s ready to start assembling. Above, you can see the window laying on a light table – the window is wider than the table, so the entire image…
Century Studios is closed through Tuesday, January 5th. We will resume regular business hours on Wdnesday, January 6th.
One of Tiffany Studio’s more popular floral shade designs is the 20″ Daffodil. This is one of the only shade patterns where the flowers are inverted, rather than “growing” from the bottom of the shade. Because the flowers are clustered at the lower edge of the shade, the 20″ Daffodil makes a wonderful chandelier fixture…
This past weekend, we traveled to New York City for a whirlwind visit. Any trip to New York is not complete without seeing “something Tiffany”, and this time we visited the Lillian Nassau Gallery at 220 East 57th Street on Saturday morning. As always, there were many wonderful Tiffany lamps, desk set pieces and blown…
Century Studios’ new home is about to go Technicolor! We will begin painting the walls and ceiling of our new space this week. We are getting very excited to move in and get things set up, but there are many gallons of paint to be spread about before that can happen. Once we complete the…
It is now 2009 and Century Studios is back up and running on our normal schedule. Just before Christmas, we signed a lease for our new studio space in St. Paul, MN. We will update our blog as work on the new space progresses. We hope to move the studio in the spring, and there…
Bill has been busy working on the glass mosaic on a Dragonfly Mosaic Urn base. Time consuming and frustrating, the tiny shards of glass must be expertly fit into the cast bronze lamp base that features flying dragonflys and flowering water plants in relief. Small strips of glass are cut, then segmented into the tiny…
Welcome to Century Studios! Founded by artists Irwin Terry and Bill Campbell in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1986, Century Studios has been creating exceptional reproduction Tiffany stained glass lamps as well as a wide array of stained glass windows and gift items for over 20 years. Our working studio and showroom is open to the public…