Tiffany Lamps

Tiffany Lamps

Louis ease Tiffany, who lived from 1848 to 1933, was a true artist. He dabbled in interior design, photography, painting, gardening, and still found time to be a world traveler, a collector, and a manufacturer. The endless popularity of his Tiffany lamps, and duplication of his styles has proven him to be one of the greatest American craftsmen, designers, and unique artists.  

His father was the founder of Tiffany and Company, the world famed jewelry company, but Louis preferred to work with oils and watercolors, and then moved on to interior design, rather than taking his place in the family business. In a chance meeting with Thomas Edison, who admired Tiffany's gorgeous stained glass creations, they got together and created light fixtures.  

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Tiffany's technique for processing and manufacture glass allowed for a larger range of colors, sheens, and textures, that the artisans grew to love. Over twenty years he came up with four new types of glass that he patented, and was the inspiration for many craftsmen that were manufacturing stained glass for windows and lamp bases, full fixtures and lamp shades. All Tiffany items were whether designed only by Louis or by design artists that worked directly for him.  

The bases of a Tiffany Lamps are usually of bronze, finely sculptured. Model numbers were given to every shade and lamp base. The shades consisted of many varying sizes of colored glass pieces held in place by copper foil, because of its compel and light weight.  

His first lamps were named "Favrile" and means handcrafted. They were the easy shades that he made in the early years. These pieces were inscribed with whether Favrile or L.C.T. On them. The later shades that used leaded glass had impressed tags with the signature on metal.  

Tiffany style lighting comes in floor lamps, table lamps, wall sconces, and ceiling fixtures. There are some categories of lamp that you might consider. The geometric style of shades is of leaded glass and has easy designs such as squares, rectangles, ovals, and triangles that are used on shades that are shaped like globes, panels or cones.  

The Tiffany lamps that follow the flower style combines both geometric design and some nature, such as gorgeous flowers, peacock feathers, spider webs, vines, leaves, and dragonflies. He then altered the level edge of the openings to allow him to simulate shrubs and the branches from trees in the actual shape of the shade. These irregular lines on both the upper and lower border are highly involved and, therefore, are among the most costly of his lamps.  

If you are shopping for an former Louis C. Tiffany lamp you might look for designs such as Acorn, Apple Blossom, Arrowroot, Azalea, Bamboo, Black Bamboo, or Greek Urn. There will all the time be a signature on the lamp. His lamps are almost all the time unique ...one of a kind , with bronze bases and unbelievable stained glass that is rich in color and texture. However, today it is potential to get bases that are made from wood and other metals, by purchasing one of the good Tiffany Reproductions.  

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