Tiffany Lamp Shade
A tiffany lamp shade is characterized by it's stained glass shade. Each tiffany lamp shade is a beautiful display of style and elegance, and each tiffany lamp shade comes in all shapes and sizes imaginable. While some tiffany lamp shades seem to be random-patterned, others have distinct designs, intricate and mesmerizing. Tiffany's attention to design detail as well as the utilization of precise colors and styles of glass make each tiffany lamp shade a true work of art.
Making a Tiffany Lamp Shade
Louis Comfort Tiffany developed and perfected the copper foil method, which joined stained glass pieces together. This utterly painstaking and time consuming technique has been revived today by several manufacturers and other artists to produce near authentic reproductions of the original stained glass tiffany lamp shade that Tiffany himself created. Each tiffany lamp shade made by Tiffany's hands show him using small geometric shapes such as triangles, squares, rectangles, and ovals to form his famous lamps. Each tiffany lamp shade has the highest quality of materials with very intricate details and incomparable workmanship.
Tiffany Lamp Shade Developments
Part of what made Louis Comfort Tiffany's lamps so memorable is that Tiffany was able to add pigmentation into each piece of glass instead of simply painting the outside of it.. At one point in his life, Tiffany said, "By the aid of studies in chemistry and through years of experiments, I have found means to avoid the use of paints, etching, or burning, or otherwise treating the surface of the glass so that now it is possible to produce figures in glass of which even the flesh tones are not superficially treated, built up of what I call 'genuine glass' because there are no tricks of the glassmaker needed to express flesh.” Adding pigmentation into each piece of stained glass made for a more beautiful lamp shade, and a greater work of art. Each tiffany lamp shade is made from art glass, making it truly unique in its style and color.
Reproducing an authentic Tiffany lamp shade using the same copper foil method is truly a labor of love. Using the same copper foil method of attaching each piece of stained glass is an art form in itself, and the work involved with the process along with the popularity of the tiffany lamp shade has caused a tiffany lamp shade reproduction to be quite expensive. Most any tiffany lamp shade is custom made and hand crafted from in stained glass for a truly unique lighting experience.
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