A history of Tiffany lamps

Tiffany lamps, known for their colorful stained-glass shades and bases of bronze, was born in New York studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Here, the son of Charles Tiffany, founder of Tiffany & Co. jewelry, lamps, made from the years 1880-1924. After beginning his career as an interior designer for the richest of New York society, has changed its focus in recent years the production of structures on a smaller scale, lamps, glass Favrileand then jewelry.

In 1890, Tiffany table lamps, chandeliers and sconces were tailored to individual houses, palaces and churches. They were composed of a combination of parts of products commercially and Tiffany had done. These Tiffany lamps were "light fuel oil burning, and were easily recognizable by their round glass base.

Over the years, Tiffany lamps over the unique works of art. He was able, withthe opening of its glass crown in 1892, for the production of colorful stained glass to its specifications. The light began to take on the familiar themes of nature and extensive use of color seen in subsequent years.

It was not until the introduction of "electro waiters" Tiffany lamps that, in the form of trust in their final round glass bases were replaced by vertical or vertical bronze. Tiffany's catalog in 1898, many lights were "available in oil or electricity." InAlso, many Tiffany table lamps, wall lamps and hanging shades are specifically designed for electricity.

By the end of the nineteenth century, many of Tiffany lamps became more complicated design. His department has established the basis of bronze with leaves, feathers, game. The colored stained glass shades especially Tiffany's love of flowers, vines, trees and shrubs, and wetlands.

Electric lighting is available in ThomasEdison's Pearl Street Power Station, the popularity of the electric light has grown rapidly. Although some people resistance to change, as even some romance-held gas. Poets wrote unfavorably on electric lighting and critics have said Tiffany colored wall reduced in New York Lyceum Theatre, "Who but Mr. Tiffany would have dribbled his molten lead fuzz both pieces of colored glass, such as eyes that are light blue bull power behind them? "

However, progresssweeping the country, and the marriage of glass and electric light was already a sure thing in 1899 half of the table lamps Tiffany Grofton shown in galleries in London shows were electric. Even the styles now known as Tiffany Dragonfly, the Lily Pond, Butterfly, Nautilus and replace replace the old, one-piece "Favril" glass shade.

In 1903 the site of Tiffany lamps in the new century and the electric world of art, was assured. ArtInterchange is the number of July showed pictures of the new Wisteria lamp, saw for the first time and said: "In studies in renowned Tiffany in New York, the rest of the world for what is rare and beautiful in the sense of objects of all description of the electric light to carry. "

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