What are Tiffany lamps?

Tiffany lamps are the style of lamps originally created and famous by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933). Louis Tiffany was the eldest son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, the famous owner of the jewelry box, Tiffany and Co., whose clients included the presidents and English Queen Victoria.

Louis Tiffany refused to follow his father's steps. Instead, he became a painter known for his oils and watercolors. Louis Tiffany also liked to travel and his journeys influenced his work of art, especially when he was interested in medieval glass. This interest in glass production worked in another new interest Tiffany's: Interior Design. The aim of Tiffany was to increase and popularize the status of decorative art into the state of fine arts and quickly decorated not only the White House, but the houses of Mark Twain and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Tiffany's interior designs represented his new passion-beautifully made of stained glass windows.

Tiffany founded his own society in 1885 and focused on the techniques of creation of glass, KTEré allowed colors and shades that have not been seen in the glass until then. At about the same time, Tiffany worked with Thomas Edison to illuminate the first cinema, lyceum. Edison's new invention of the fiber bulb created a spark in Tiffany. It could produce its excellent stained glass windows in miniature form to serve as a shielding strips for a fiber bulb to illuminate stained glass, night or day. Tiffany lamp was born.

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tiffany lamps were made in 1885-1920, characterized by decorative bronze bases and unique uniform shades of stained glass. Before Tiffany died in 1933, the popularity of the lamps decreased because the artistic taste changed and the lamps were considered grim. In 1958, however, the Tiffany lamps again became popular with a retrospective show that brought his work back to the Attenance of Museums and Collectors. Today the original tiffany lamp is sold for more than 2 miLiony American dollars.

Tiffany lamps available in department stores are Tiffany- lamps. Tiffany -style lamps usually have a polished brass base and a decorated shade composed of many pieces of colored glass in different shapes and sizes. Some shades are random, while others have different designs.

Tiffany-style lamps are so popular that even reproduction has its own cheap knock-off made of imitation glass in the form of colored plastic. We can only imagine what Louis Tiffany would think of it, but the fact that the lamp lasts for more than a century is proof of a man who wanted to bring beauty to homes everywhere.