About Lighting Blog

Make a New Year’s Resolution to make your home a happier place by placing a beautiful floor lamp at the end of or behind the sofa, or maybe next to a comfortable chair  By doing so you could grace the whole room in array of glorius colors.  The difference might take you by surprise.  The best part of a room can be attractive lighting that accents beautiful furniture.  Make it your goal this new year to create multiple places of beauty in your home by simply completing a room with the perfect lamp.  Dispel the showdows of a dark room by careful selection of your favorite colors and putting lights behind them.

Do you have a golfer on your gift list?.   They are not so difficult to shop for because so many things are geared to that profession.  But if you are looking for something useful and something that a golfer is definitely going to enjoy, give a handsome table lamp, displaying a golfer, of course.  Even in the winter when the weather does not permit playing, the golfer can use the light and be reminded that there are warmer days coming.  There are a plethora of things to give the golfer, but finding something to give that can be used everyday and that will last for many years is not the easiest task.

Everyone seems to have that “impossible to buy for” person on their gift list.  Why not combine the practical with a unique and beautiful gift.  Who does want something that they can use freqently, if not daily.  A table lamp would fit that category.  There is such an array of beautiful styles of Tiffany table lamps, any one of which would bring out the brightest of smiles.  You can have fun just in choosing that perfect lamp to fit into that niche for someone special.  Giving that extraordinary gift makes two people happy, the gift giver and the receipent.

Task lighting is used to illuminate a work space like a desk or craft table, and offers the user sufficient light for more detailed activities like writing or sewing. Finally, accent lighting adds dimension to general lighting by illuminating some areas of a room more than others. This is done through decorative lamps and fixtures that will create the ambiance and warmth homeowners are looking for.  Tiffany lamps are the perfect answer to your favorite craft area.  Creativity leads to creativity and when you surround yourself with beauty, you are more inclined to create beauty.

Did you enjoy your flower garden over the spring and summer months.  Here’s a great way to extend your garden all year.  The beautiful bouquet table lamp will inspire you all year.  The unique design and colors make it magical.  Put it on your favorite table next to your favorite chair and enjoy endless hours of rest and relaxation while having coffee or reading a good book.  It is like taking a mini-vacation and so often,  a vacation of any kind is a real accomplishment.  I invite you to make your own time away from the busy world.

Not every light is a conversation piece, but some are so unique that it becomes a topic of conversation.  The frosted effect  and the designs are just unusual enough for special mention.  Typically, the lights in a home are passe, but present a beautifully designed table lamp can light up and give life to a room by allievating a shadowy corner and that light can spur on new communication.  It is almost a contagious effect; beauty inspires and that is what many of the Tiffany lights do. 

Even when a tiffany light is not on, it is a object of beauty, but when it is on, it really signifies beauty.
With tiffany lighting, you have a win/win situation because when you need light the dormant art work comes to life.
Interior decoration is made easier and more effective because anything can go with a tiffany lamp.
A Tiffany table light is crafted from fine colored glass they are made to replicate art that blends to the whole scheme in a room or the whole house.  Friends and family, even the children find a happy time in a comfortable home filled with lighting from Tiffany designs.

A lamp is an important room accent. A lovely lamp can change the entire ambience of a room. With so many contemporary table lamps to choose from, it may be overwhelming to find the right lamp. Before making a purchase, consider these factors:
 
1. Lighting: What kind of lighting do you want? Would you prefer a soft or dim light or would you like something brighter? The mood of the room will depend, in a large part, on the lighting.
2. Functionality: Will the lamp be merely used as a décor or would you use it as a reading lamp?
3. Design: The style of the lamp must blend perfectly with the aura of the whole room, which means it must complement the rest of the furniture.

Want to look rich? But of course! The easy and inexpensive way to do that is to add Tiffany lamps to every room in your house.  I rarely have compliments about my furnishings, but I alway have compliments about my Tiffany lighting.  I am definitely working on putting the Tiffany style lamps in every room, including the basement.  A basement always seems to look like an “after thought” and in my opinion, the basement should and could be made as comfortable as any other part of the house by bringing beautiful lighting into it.   You can place a floor lamp in the corner of the basement by that favorite chair and make it a great refuge to read or study or just daydream. 

The popularity of Tiffany lighting has never diminished.  Ever since a man by the name of Louis Comfort Tiffany, (1848-1933) founded a popular stained glass artwork style found in table lamps, windows, panels, doors and other items. Tiffany was a painter and interior decorator. He used and promoted the copper foil method of stained glass construction that is so popular today. He is widely credited for the popularity of this method and it carries his name.

Louis Comfort Tiffany’s company made lamps, windows, doors, jewelry, metalwork, ceramics, blown glass mosaics, etc. and he founded the Tiffany Glass Company in 1885 but it no longer exists. His father, Charles Lewis Tiffany, previously had started a well known jewelry store named Tiffany & Co. in 1837.

It may be very surprising to many, but stained glass artwork has a much longer and relatively unknown history.

Stained glass panels have been found that are nearly 2,000 years old. Single stained glass panels were discovered in the remains of ancient Pompeii. Pompeii was destroyed in a volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius around 79 A.D. Many of the artifacts that were found in the ruins of Pompeii are in museums throughout the world especially in Naples, Italy.

Thanks to Louis Comfort Tiffany for his outstanding quality and beautiful works of art and for refining and popularizing this ancient method of stained glass artwork that is world renowned today.

1848: Louis Comfort Tiffany was born into the very wealthy family of Charles Lewis Tiffany of Tiffany & Company of New York City (jewelry and silverware). This helped to propel his business and his career.

1875—1878: Tiffany worked at several glass companies in Brooklyn.

1879: He and other artists formed Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists.

1885: Tiffany started his own glassmaking firm in which led to the demise of the Associated American Artists. Tiffany Glass Company was officially established in December 1885. It was later renamed Tiffany Studios in 1902. Louis Comfort Tiffany’s company made lamps, windows, doors, jewelry, metalwork, ceramics, blown glass mosaics, etc. Tiffany’s main competitors were fellow artists and glassmakers John La Farge, Oliver Kimberly and Frank Duffner of The The Duffner and Kimberly Company. Tiffany, La Farge, and Kimberly had all worked at the same glasshouses in Brooklyn from 1875 to 1878. Subsequently there were many other artists who became proficient in this style of glass work.

1893: Tiffany built a new factory, called the Stourbridge Glass Company and later called Tiffany Glass Furnaces, which was located in Queens, New York. His work was exhibited at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. This provided a worldwide platform for his unique products which further promoted his business.

1894: He introduced the term, Favrile glass (hand made) at his new glass factory and later trademarked the term in 1894. He would later use this term for all his work in glass, ceramic and enamel.

1895: Tiffany’s first commercially produced lamps date from around 1895. Much of his company’s production was in making stained glass windows and lamps but his company designed a complete range of interior decorations. At its peak, his factory employed more than 300 artisans.