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“Dragonfly” Tiffany LampA Tiffany Studios New York "Dragonfly" leaded glass and bronze table lamp. The shade features a band of dragonflies with purple bodies, red eyes and light blue wings with wire mesh detailing against View Product 
“Wire Mesh Poppy” Tiffany LampA Tiffany Studios New York "Wire Mesh Poppy" leaded glass and patinated bronze table lamp. The shade features red, orange, and yellow poppy blossoms in various stages of bloom and a band of green View Product 
“Woodbine” Tiffany LampA Tiffany Studios New York “Woodbine” leaded table lamp. The shade sits on a four footed patinated base. A dash number (-) designates a special order shade. Similar “Woodbine” shade pictured View Product 
Glass and Bronze Desk LampA Tiffany Studios New York Favrile glass and patinated bronze desk lamp. The shade features 3 bell shaped golden Favrile shades with quilted decoration suspended from a decorated patinated bronze View Product 
Double Arm Prism Wall SconcesA pair of Tiffany Studios New York gilt bronze two-light sconces with Favrile glass prism shades. A similar sconce is pictured in: Tiffany Lamps and Metalware: An illustrated reference to over View Product 
“Crocus” Tiffany LampA Tiffany Studios New York "Crocus" leaded glass and patinated bronze table lamp. A bouquet of yellow, orange, and green crocus blossoms with hints of blue in various stages of bloom decorates View Product Louis Comfort Tiffany
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Louis Comfort Tiffany was the eldest son of Charles Lewis Tiffany who founded Tiffany & Company in 1837. As an artist of many media and decorative arts, his lengthy career, spanning from the 1860's to the early 1930's, influenced several design periods and was highly experimental. The primary proponent of Art Nouveau in America, Tiffany's work exemplified the movement's aims to develop a new aesthetic based in nature. Tiffany forged a unique style that combined superb craftsmanship with a love of natural forms and brilliant color. In this vein, his luminous glass designs combined technical innovations with the highest artistry infusing everyday objects with beauty inspired by nature. He sought to maximize the potential of the medium itself, developing new methods resulting in iridescent finishes, lava glass, and his most important innovation, Favrile glass. Leaded-glass windows paved the way for Tiffany lamps both in technique and subject matter. While leaded-glass windows depended on natural light for illumination, lamps could be illuminated by fuel or electricity. September 4, 1882 marked the advent of incandescent lighting for New York homes as part of the Pearl Street project. Tiffany's creativity peaked as Art Nouveau burst onto the scene in Europe in the mid-1890’s. Far from resulting in a simplified version of Art Nouveau themes, Tiffany's glass is invariably complex in composition and appearance. What began as formal interpretations of nature grew into a love of lush naturalism, and as his artistic career progressed, he became increasingly preoccupied by depictions of landscapes and flowers. Tiffany Studios produced thousands of lamps in many shapes and designs. Variations in the design, shape and type of glass promoted uniqueness and no two Tiffany lampshades are identical. Tiffany provided a host of options for his lampshades, including table and floor bases, hanging hardware, and wall sconces. His lampshades created floral patterns, dragonflies, peacock feathers, and varying geometric shapes all within the naturalistic genre. His lily lamps follow nature's logic, with petals and leaves on the shade and stems, and pond lilies on the base. Early institutional collectors of Tiffany glass include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and numerous other museums around the world. In the 1950's scholars and collectors began rediscovering Tiffany's work, and resurrected his enduring reputation as an artist, innovator, and pioneer of Modernism.
