Making Tiffany Lamps

Step-by-step color photos illustrate the entire lamp-making process, from cutting the pattern and selecting glass to assembling tiles and soldering a shade. How-to techniques and construction secrets from one of the country's top Tiffany lamp artists. Features never-before-published secrets for creating an authentic patina and includes large-scale images of 30 finished lamps as well as close-ups of shade details.

• Step-by-step color photos illustrate the entire lamp-making process, from cutting the pattern and selecting glass to assembling tiles and soldering a shade • How-to techniques and construction secrets from one of the country's top Tiffany lamp artists • Features never-before-published secrets for creating an authentic patina and includes large-scale images of 30 finished lamps as well as close-ups of shade details An authentic reproduction Tiffany lamp can be a handmade heirloom handed down through generations. This unique how-to book describes in detail how to create an authentic reproduction, one of the most exciting and challenging projects the stained-glass artist can tackle.

How to make simple stained glass lamps.

Tiffany Studios produced thousands of lamps in hundreds of designs, although many of the designs were closely related. Examine how the forms, patterns, and motifs were changed and adapted in authentic Tiffany lamps made between 1900 and 1918. By closely looking at many varied designs of Tiffany shades, a deeper understanding of their quality and beauty is made possible.

"First published in the United States of America in 2005 by The Vendome Press"--T.p. verso.

Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) is celebrated today as one of the most influential creative designers of the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls presents the celebrated works of Tiffany Studios in an entirely new context, focusing on the "Tiffany Girls", the 27 women who laboured behind the scenes to create the masterpieces now inextricably linked to the Tiffany name. Recently discovered correspondence written by Ohio-born Clara Driscoll, head of the so-called "Women's Glass Cutting Department" at Tiffany Studios, reveals in convincing and vivid detail how it was in fact Driscoll who generated designs for such masterpieces as the famous Wisteria, Dragonfly and Peony goods. At the heart of the book are over 50 Tiffany lamps, windows, ceramics, enamels and mosaics, supplemented by a wide array of related documents and archival photographs.

Make beautiful Tiffany-inspired lampshades with 11 designs: poppy, magnolia, floral repeat, woodbine, dragonfly, 6 more. Printed on sturdy template stock. Complete step-by-step instructions. Easy enough for beginners.

This is the first book devoted to Tiffany lamps in more than 20 years. Experts in the field have made a selection of exceptional lamps-many of which have rarely been seen or published-and each one has been newly photographed with the latest photographic techniques to reveal in extraordinary detail the artistic quality and high craftsmanship of these masterpieces of decorative art. Martin Eidelberg and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen have contributed essays on the history of the lamps, enlarging our understanding of Louis Comfort Tiffany's achievement. They have also drawn upon a host of previously unpublished photographs, paintings, and watercolors by Tiffany and other artists in his employ, as well as on working drawings and studio photographs, to evoke the lost gardens and interiors of Tiffany's country estate, Laurelton Hall, that so inspired him. They outline the development and manufacture of the Tiffany lamp from freehand sketch to the finished form, as well as the chief decorative themes in Tiffany's glass masterpieces and their relation to the work of other fin de sihcle glassmakers. In this book, light, color, and the inspiration of nature co-mingle to produce a deliciously sensuous experience.