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Tiffany Lamps - The Tradition Continues

More and more people are turning to lamps to have more lighting. If you are looking for a lamp to add light to a room, be sure that you consider the type as well as the style for your best bet. In most dcor, just any old lamp wont work, and you might need to know about tiffany lamps as well.

The revival of art deco styles from the turn of the century has placed stained glass lighting in the spotlight. Floor lamps, table lamps, chandeliers, and fixtures are all in demand, and specifically those inspired by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Tiffany lamps - the tradition carries on today.

Tiffany is a true American art form that united human passion with organic beauty. Most would agree that it is one of the most beautiful art forms ever, perhaps one of the reasons it popularity never seems to wane.

Tiffany is recognized as one of the most talented and versatile American artists that worked during the 19th and 20th centuries. Much of his work is featured in museums including his lamps, mosaics, flown glass, windows, pottery, jewelry, and enamel works. Drawings from his studio are also on display.

So who is Louis Comfort Tiffany? Louis Tiffany is the man who captured the artistic spirit of what is fondly referred to as the gilded age. His career went from the 1870s to the mid 1920s encompassing more than half a century. He was a man who experimented with new ideas and aesthetic ideals and he had a multitude of talents from painter to architect to interior designer.

His studio encompassed glassmakers, modelers, mosaic artists, artists, metal workers, textile workers, potters, and wood carvers. He was a man of continuous design which involved color, texture, and pattern to present a finished expression utilizing light.

Tiffany had a life long fascination with light which is what led to his innovation of stained glass and new ways to use electric lighting with design.

Most of the Tiffany shades were lead glass windows that were constructed much the same as the windows with a few exceptions in the way the glass was worked....

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