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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.

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.

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. 

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.

The lighting of a room can transform the ambience of a place. When space is limited, a floor lamp positioned in a corner of the room can provide enough lighting. It also makes a good accent to the room.

When choosing a floor lamp, you have to decide first if you prefer contemporary floor lamps over the traditional ones. The advantage of a modern lamp is the style is clean and simple. A modern design in limited space can make the room look more spacious than it really is.

The lighting of a room can transform the ambience of a place. When space is limited, a floor lamp positioned in a corner of the room can provide enough lighting. It also makes a good accent to the room.

When choosing a floor lamp, you have to decide first if you prefer contemporary floor lamps over the traditional ones. The advantage of a modern lamp is the style is clean and simple. A modern design in limited space can make the room look more spacious than it really is.

Isn’t it wonderful that we do not have to revolve our existence around daylight hours?  Since the discovery of fire which was the only artificial type of light for thousands of years, life was much like the birds and animals that hunted during the day, or the night.  Even modern history does not have electricity until the beginning of the twentieth century.  That seems so phenomenal that there was a potential for electricity for all of the years prior to invention, but it has only been around about 100 years.  Plus light, we may obtain it with all kinds of color and aesthetically pleasing designs, in table, ceiling and floor lamps .

I live in a basement apartment and it tends to get really dark down there in the winter. The ceiling lights don’t seem to do much good for the overall lighting affect, so I have been looking at different types of lamps that might brighten up the place. My mom recommended I try adding a couple floor lamps to each room.I took her suggestion and I have been happy with the light level ever since. Before adding the floor lamps I had to strain my eyes in order to read a book, and I had to keep the privacy shades up all the time unless I wanted it to be completely dim down there. I even feel a little bit more cheerful since I put in the extra lamps. I guess I should have done something a long time ago.

History of light goes back all the way to fire, of course. Fire was not only light, but a symbol of joy and of life-giving power, as darkness was of death and destruction. Fire is the most mysterious and impressive of all elements. In many primitive religions of the world, fire was considrered divine and omniscient. Cultures through out the ages have had sacred fires and ceremonial lights. Torches and lamps were carried in religious processions.  And several religions kept a fire burning at all times because it was considered sacred.

 Today, we taking lighting much for granted because it is commonplace and it takes only a flip of a switch to dispell darkness.  Of course the advent of electicity has also made lighting unique and beautiful.  For instance, a simple

floor lamp not only eliminates darkness, but some are designed to resemble the old type torch, as well as beauty to a room. They are called touchiere lamps.