Table lamp TIFFANY style, ca. 1906

Table lamp TIFFANY style, ca. 1906.
Leaded glass and bronze. Metal frame.
Electrified.
Its characteristics make us think that it may be a period copy.
Signatures and seals on the inside.
Lamp of similar characteristics reproduced with photo in the book "The lamps of Tiffany Studios" by William Feldson.
lamps of Tiffany Studios" of William Feldstein Jr. and Alastair Duncan,
1983. Harry N. Abrams Inc, New York and Thames and Hudson LTD, London,
publishers. Page 125.
Measurements: 84 cm (total height) x 55 cm (diameter).

Antique Tiffany style lamp whose characteristics make us think that it can be a period copy with its
copy with its lampshade leaded with colored crystals that give a warm atmosphere to the room.
that give a warm atmosphere to the room. Thus, the lampshade consists of
small pieces of glass cut and welded by hand, fitting into its sinuous profiles.
sinuous profiles. It is a technique that made Louis Comfort Tiffany's lamps famous, and which has given the room a warm atmosphere.
Comfort Tiffany chandeliers, giving each piece the status of a unique work of art.
In the organicist design of the piece shown here, the modernist imprint can be appreciated, being the first Tiffany lamps.
modernist imprint, the first Tiffany lamps being the backbone of the Art Nouveau movement.
Art Nouveau movement.

The first Tiffany lamps were created 100 years ago by American glass artist Louis Comfort Tiffany. Since then, hundreds of different patterns and designs have been created. Louis Comfort Tiffany was the American artist and industrial designer most associated with the Art Nouveau movement. He was a painter, interior decorator, designer of stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewelry and metalwork. Louis attended Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. His early artistic training was as a painter, studying with George Inness and Samuel Coleman in New York City and with Leon Bailly in Paris. In about 1875 he became interested in the technique of glassmaking and worked in various Brooklyn glassworks. In 1879 he partnered with Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artist. Tiffany's leadership and talent, along with his father's connections and financial resources made the business a success. Tiffany's desire to concentrate on glass as an artistic element led to the dissolution of the company in 1885, when he chose to establish his own glassmaking firm. The first Tiffany Glass Company was incorporated on December 1, 1885, and in 1900 became known as Tiffany Studios. In his factory he used opaque glass in a variety of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass, which contrasted with the method of transparent painted or enameled glass that had been the dominant methods of creating stained glass for hundreds of years in Europe. The use of stained glass for the creation of stained glass was motivated by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and its leader William Morris in England. Artist and stained glass artist John La Farge was Tiffany's main competitor in this new American style of stained glass. The two had learned the trade in the same Brooking glass shop in the late 1870s. In 1893 Tiffany built a new factory, called Tiffany Glass Furnaces, located in Corona Queens, New York. That same year his new company introduced the term favrile in conjunction with its first blown glass production. Early examples of his lamps were exhibited at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. He registered the term favrile on November 13, 1894. He then extended the use of this term to his entire production of glass, enamel and ceramics. The first commercially produced lamps date from around 1895. Much of the production of his company was the realization of stained glass for windows and the creation of lamps, although his company designed a full range of decorative objects for interiors. At its peak, his factory had more than 300 craftsmen. Tiffany used all his skills in the design of his own house in Oyster Bay, New York, Long Island, which had 84 rooms and was completed in 1904. It was later donated to his foundation for art students, along with 243,000 m² of land, but was destroyed by fire in 1957. Tiffany maintained a close relationship with the family-owned Tiffany Company.