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Tiffany lamps provide splendid home lighting as well as art work for homes.   Indeed, lighting home interiors with Tiffany lamps can add a special decor to the living space. Louis Comfort Tiffany founded Tiffany Studios in New York where the Tiffany lamps were made during the late 1800′s and the beginning of the 1900′s.

Original Tiffany lamps were designed and made by hand using many pieces of high quality stained glass.  Designs tended to depict geometric shapes and motifs of nature.  Today, genuine Tiffany lamps are considered antiques and sell for many thousands of dollars.

Luckily for common consumers, Tiffany reproduction lamps are available for purchase at prices many consumers are able to afford.   The well made Tiffany reproduction lamps aim to replicate the original designs and quality, using high quality stained glass and materials.

Also available to consumers are Tiffany style lamps that are not made with quality.  For example, some Tiffany style lamps use plastics in place of high quality stained glass.  For consumers who compare a Tiffany reproduction lamp that has high quality stained glass with a Tiffany style lamp that uses plastic instead of high quality stained glass, the difference is quite noticeable.  In fact, the two are not really comparable.

Nonetheless, both high quality Tiffany reproduction lamps and poor quality Tiffany style lamps are available to consumers for habitat lighting, and as such, consumers may wish to be well informed about Tiffany style lamps prior to purchasing one.

Luckily, the Internet provides information about Tiffany lamps, including pictures of styles that are available for purchase.  However, even though the Internet may be a good place to commence shopping for a Tiffany style lamp, shopping for a lamp in person allows consumers the option to closely examine the quality and detail of  the lamps prior to purchasing one.

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Tiffany style lamps are inspired by the original Tiffany lamp designs created by Louis Comfort Tiffany in the late  1800′s and beginning of the 1900′s.  Original Tiffany lamps had a bronze base topped with an intricate shade created from high quality stained glass pieces. It was Tiffany’s intent to create a lamp that was a functional work of art for lighting home interiors.

The work of Tiffany was showcased at notable locations, such as the White House.  Tiffany lamps represent elegance and sophistication in illumination. Regardless if an antique look or a modern style is required, well crafted  Tiffany style lamps offer the possibility to accent any décor with style to provide home lighting.

Tiffany style lamps come in different varieties. Table and floor lamps may enhance rooms in homes. Elegant antique hanging Tiffany style lamps can compliment a room with ease. These lamps offer an excellent choice of colors and themes that match many interior design styles.

Moreover,Tiffany style lamps may provide a lovely glow that illuminate a room in a charming manner. The stained glass of well crafted Tiffany lamp shades offer many design possibilities.

While original Tiffany lamps still exist and are sold for many thousands of dollars, well crafted reproductions of Tiffany lamps can easily be purchased online or in home lighting stores.  Genuine Tiffany style lamps are quality reproductions inspired by  original Tiffany lamp designs and as such,  they are crafted with premium materials.

A Tiffany style lamp can be located at a reputable replica distributor online. Excellent prices can be found for quality Tiffany style lamps on the Internet, often at a savings that exceed typical prices.

A well crafted Tiffany style lamp can accent any home, while providing habitat lighting.  However, these lamps should be chosen carefully for quality,  as not all Tiffany style lamps offer the same level of workmanship.  Nonetheless, if consumers pay attention to the quality of the Tiffany style lamp, a stunning beauty may be purchased that may illuminate a home for years to come.

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The name Tiffany is at times associated with the well known jewelry business, Tiffany and Company.  What some people may not realize is that the founder of Tiffany and Company was the father of Louis Comfort Tiffany, well known in the stained glass world.  This brief article presents information about the Tiffany lamps created by Tiffany Studios in New York, and the stained glass lamps resembling Tiffany lamps subsequently created elsewhere.

The lamps created by Tiffany Studios at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century are indeed pieces of art.  These Tiffany lamps did not only provide home lighting and illumination for establishments, they also provided unique artwork for homes using the finest type of art glass.

Louis Tiffany was known to use  the discarded pieces of high quality stained glass he used when designing  home interiors, to create hand made lamp shades.  The intricate lamp shades designed by Tiffany Studios had natural and geometric themes, including flowers, dragonflies, peacock feathers, rectangles, squares, and ovals, among other designs.

Thus, the themes of the Tiffany lamp shade leaned toward nature and geometric shapes.  The high quality lamps produced by Tiffany Studios is illustrated when one considers the seven following factors describing how the Tiffany lamps were made:

1. High quality stained glass was used to make Tiffany lamp shades.

2. The glass was  hand cut to the precision of the design for which the stained glass pieces were going to be used.

3. The lamp was hand made.

4. Copper foil solution was applied to the ends of each individual piece of  glass to bond the pieces of stained glass together.

5.  All the pieces of stained glass that were used to make Tiffany lamp shades were soldered together by hand.

6.  The glass was polished by hand.

7. High quality bronze was used for the base of the Tiffany lamp.

Some readers may ask, what is the difference between an original Tiffany lamp produced by Tiffany Studios, a Tiffany reproduction lamp, and a Tiffany style lamp?  Well, to start, the seven factors mentioned above help distinguish the high quality Tiffany lamps from the low quality Tiffany lamps.

Moreover, the original Tiffany lamps are antiques and were produced by Tiffany Studios at the end of the 1800′s and beginning of the 1900′s.   These Tiffany lamps sell for many thousands of dollars.

By comparison, Tiffany reproduction lamps are reproductions of  original Tiffany lamps.  In other words,  genuine Tiffany reproduction lamps are designed to look just like an original Tiffany lamp.  High quality materials and workmanship are used.  However, Tiffany reproduction lamps sell for many thousands of dollars less  than the Tiffany lamps made at the Tiffany Studio during the late 1800′s and early 1900′s.

In contrast, lamps that are sold as Tiffany style lamps are often machine made with poor quality materials, such as plastic pieces.  While this practice may be  done in an attempt to imitate the glass pieces of the well made lamps, there is really no comparison in quality.  However, because these lamps are not made by hand and with high quality materials, these lamps tend to cost significantly less than Tiffany reproduction lamps.

Another category of lamp that falls under the Tiffany style lamp is one that uses higher quality materials than the lamps that have plastic materials.  However, these higher quality lamps have differences in design when compared with original Tiffany lamps and Tiffany reproduction lamps.

It may also be helpful for consumers to know that not all stained glass lamps are Tiffany lamps.  One distinguishing  aspect of  a Tiffany lamp is that it tends to have hundreds of pieces of glass in its design, and as previously noted, is of high quality.

Given all the choices in purchase options of Tiffany reproduction lamps and Tiffany style lamps available to consumers for lighting home interiors, consumers may wish to be well informed about the differences mentioned above, before purchasing a Tiffany reproduction or a Tiffany style lamp. Original Tiffany lamps are beyond the purchase possibilities for most consumers, given the many thousands of dollars for which an original Tiffany lamp sells. However, as mentioned above, other options to provide habitat lighting with the Tiffany inspired style are available.

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