Louis Comfort Tiffany & His Lamps

Louis Comfort Tiffany is an American designer and artist who had pioneered the art of Stained Glass Lamp making. His innovation, the Stained Glass Lamps, came to be known worldwide as Tiffany Lamps, now an unavoidable decorative piece in many homes/hotels. Tiffany’s name is also closely associated with the Art Nouveau/Aesthetic movements.

The late 1800s and early 1900s witnessed new inventions and techniques in lamp making such as the patented translucent “milky” glass known as opalescent glass – by John La Farge – and stained glass lamps or the Tiffany Decorative Lamps by Louis Tiffany. In a sense, his technology was not entirely novel. He just used a technology that was totally confined to window pane decoration for centuries to the making of lamp shades. But the credit is still bestowed upon Tiffany because trying to migrate window pane technology to lamp shades, with every work being hand done, was quite an effort in itself. Also, then he had to create a market for the new lamps, which none was aware of existing then.

Louis Tiffany used thin copper foils to tape individual glass pieces, which are then soldered together to form the glass pane. In the old window pane technology, but there lead was used as the substance to hold the glass pieces together. Tiffany showed that by substituting lead with copper not only makes the glass weighs less, but also copper’s malleability ensures that finer lines and hence complex designs can be weaved in more easily to the stained glass shades or big and complex window panes used in churches.

In the days of Tiffany, the lamp shades were entirely handmade. Now, with the advent of technology and automation, nearly every process that goes on behind the scene of Tiffany Lamp making has become automatic, with minimal human interference. Also, copper foils and colored glass has given way to more costly and cheaper substances. In fact, the reality that there is Tiffany lamps that costs hundreds and thousands of dollars will itself give one an idea as to what all materials can go into the making of fancy Tiffany lamps, even though lamp makers prefer to keep such information one of their trade secrets.

But critics, who see Tiffany lamp making as an art, say that fusing, slumping, and bending of glass in modern electric home kilns has in fact made the job a lot easier, and it had taken away the element of expertise that was required in the early days, a reality that in fact reflects in the Tiffany lamp shades that are available today in the market. But, on the other side of the coin, this is also the reason why Tiffany glass lamp making, the vocation, has become so common these days. The availability of factory made cheap glass in abundance, and improved training techniques have also contributed to more people taking to Tiffany lamp making as a profitable vocation. It is profitable because, across the globe, in homes and offices, Tiffany lamps are still a sought after décor item.

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Brady Freeman is a regular contributor at Tiffany Lamps. A consumer based site that offers Tiffany wall sconces, and Water Features.

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Find Great Rawhide Lamp Shades For Rustic Lamps and Decor

Rustic lamps with rawhide lamp shades are a great choice in home lighting fixtures because they offer an easy way to create rustic charm and enhance southwestern style in a log cabin or ranch style home. While in the southwestern states, you will probably recognize the warm glow of rawhide lamp shades being used in the decorating style of many public places. Their rustic charm makes them a great choice in southwestern home decorating.

The wonderful thing about decorating with rawhide lamp shades is that they go well with rustic style accessories like drum tables, log furnishings, or antler lamps as well as with traditional style interiors. These lamp shades are also found in multi-colors that make it possible for designers to use any color pallet. If you are looking for a great way to use southwestern style in your design projects, you will like how these beautiful shades enhance rustic furniture and the way they simply bring a welcoming ambiance to your home.

When you are ready to buy rawhide lamp shades you will want to first consider the way your lamp will be used. Are they to be used on tall floor lamps to light a large space, or on small Bedside Lamps to illuminate a small corner? The shade you end up buying depends on how you plan to incorporate it in your decor. For instance, you may be illuminating a big area or just lighting a dark corner of the room.

Rawhide shades are also popular on antler chandeliers and antler lamps since they a standard for southwest home lighting fixtures. From simple Table Lamps to large wall sconces, leather lamp shades allow you to be flexible while providing great southwestern style at the same time.

The glow illuminated through the rawhide, gives your home an appealing warmth and creates a pleasant environment for your guests. The natural colors of the leather when lit by the light shining through, creates a striking and very appealing image. While it may not be the focus of your room, it will definitely add an abundance of character to your space. If you are including a lamp in your interior design, purchase a style and size that will be large enough to hold a larger size shade and one that gives off sufficient light.

Leather lamp shades are also perfect for other types of lighting like wall sconces and chandeliers. Because they are available in a variety of sizes, you will be able to find the right shade for any style lamp. Remember, when you are choosing the lighting for your home, the light from rawhide Table Lamp Shades allows you to cut the bright glare and enjoy its charm while focusing it where you need it most. Light colored rawhide, sometimes called southwestern lamp shades, will let the maximum amount of light shine through while dark rawhide shades, called western lamp shades, are more subtle, producing a deeper color when the lamp is turned on.

The thing you will like most about the leather lamp shades you purchase online, is the ability to use them on traditional or rustic style lamps and with the decor you already have. Decorative antler lamps are a wonderful choice in home lighting fixtures because of the great ambiance they produce when matched with a rustic shade. You can also consider combining rawhide shades with heavy iron lamps for the perfect western design. You will be surprised at how simply switching the shade on modern style lamp you already own, can add variety to your whole decor.

The great variety of size and color allow these lamp shades to be utilized in practically any area where you want to add southwestern character or are enhancing the room with what has been called rustic chic style. Just as appropriate in the living room, family room or den as well as bedroom or study, rawhide shades can be used in just one room or used to give a western theme throughout your entire house.

One great thing about these shades is that you can purchase a great selection of rawhide shades at discounted prices when you shop online. Rawhide will produce a true southwestern feel in your home that you and your family will enjoy for years to come. Whether transforming the decor of an entire room or simply including a few rustic accessories, you will love the way southwest design can be created with rawhide lamp shades.

About the Author

Craig Chambers is the director of Mission Del Rey and offers free tips online about buying rawhide lamp shades for rustic home decorating. For more information visit http://www.missiondelrey.com

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Purchasing a Murano Chandelier

Purchasing a chandelier of Murano glass makes incomparable style of your home: the charm, refinement and beauty of a true work of art can be enclosed in a single item of furniture.

Our chandeliers, all Murano glass made, combine the charm of the immortal works of art, the functionality of an object suited to every home, and a style all ancient and modern, perfect for all types of furniture.

The Murano glass is known worldwide for its beauty: each chandelier is handcrafted, and is the result of centuries of tradition, the ancient techniques of the man and the passion of true artists.

The design of each lamp is cured in every detail, from conception to completion, combining talent and experience.

If you are interested in buying an original Murano glass chandeliers, we suggest you to visit our Murano glass chandeliers online shop.

Our Masters developed different Murano chandeliers series, some of wich are stylistically based on classic Venetian traditions and others that results from innovative, avant-garde design concepts. The artistic skills of our Masters and their collaborators motivated them to develop and create new techniques and distinctive colours for your Murano chandeliers. The commitment has resulted in creative murano chandeliers and lighting fixtures with appealing, unique and inimitable designs that are guaranteed to enhance any area of the house and satisfy the needs of the most discerning consumers.

The classic lines of our Murano chandeliers, inspired by the finest example of eighteenth century Venetian art, propose ornate decorations that are superbly adapted to suit modern needs. Imposing and refined, the Murano chandelier is conceived as the central element of the room, reflecting brilliant plays of light and translucent hues.

Elegance and innovation are the distinguishing features of the murano chandeliers series inspired by the twentieth century. The decorations of the murano chandeliers are more essential, and include floral motifs modelled on the styles in vogue at the turn of the century.

By the start of the thirties the central Murano chandeliers became less important and were replaced by a variety of lighting sources with subtle forms that were linked to interior design. The range includes a vast variety of Ceiling Lights, wall fixtures and Table Lights that create a wonderful diffuse lighting effect and an atmosphere that only hand-crafted murano chandeliers can offer: multi-coloured or filigree, murrhine inclusions or decorated with silver or gold leaf.

Our Murano chandeliers are made according to the hightes quality standards, applying the widest range of techniques and with utmost care to the technical and performance features of all the mounting elements end electrical materials.

The Masters glassblower great expertise and experience resulted in supreme versatility in terms of design and product range of Murano chandeliers: from the most refined traditional Venetian styles to the most advanced designs and chromatic effects. That is why our Murano chandeliers are the guarantee of quality for the most demanding clientele, including contract sector customers.

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Riccardo Rossi

Murano chandeliers expert.

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Antique Lamps – Treen, Fine, Dark and Handsome

There is nothing like the polished sheen on antique wood, lovingly polished with       bee’s wax for the past hundred, or even, the past two hundred years.  Over this long period of time a rich patination is left, the fine sheen of polished wood. This patina can never be successfully reproduced and is the result of elbow grease, wax and time!

Treen is a generic name for the small to medium, functional handmade objects made of wood.  Hence treen is distinct from furniture, chairs, tables etc.

The very word is antique! and is, in fact, a Middle English word from the 13th century, when treen meant tree, or wood.  The word is still in common use to describe small objects made in hand turned wood.  Wood, of course, being the major raw material for common domestic objects with turning and carving being the key skills.

Some rare examples of treen exist from the 15th century with most antique pieces being made in the 19th century.  These were made prior to the introduction of cheap metal wares and finally, plastics.  As the 19th century progressed, the “old fashioned” treen pieces were discarded for the new wares.

The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co illustrate a very handsome, mid 19th century, English, urn shaped, fruit wood lamp.  The lamp on a short socle and standing on a circular base, the fruit wood, probably cherry wood.  The lamp fitted with a gold plated bronze cap.  This impressive lamp base with a height of 11”/ 28cm and a circumference of 21”/53cm, has been hand turned from a single length of fruit wood!  Circa 1850.  Overall height (including shade) 23″/58.5cm.

The lamp with a highly polished surface, the end result of a soft cloth and wax for the past 150 years.  The lamp is, of course highly functional, with a clean undecorated form, greatly admired by designers and collectors.

It is well worth recalling that antique pieces were made by master craftsmen and that in today’s world, hand crafted products like these have virtually disappeared.

Antique pieces not only reflect quality workmanship from an earlier time, but will increase in value, while a contemporary piece will depreciate every year.

There is a real pleasure in owning something that is unique and beautiful while remaining a useful asset to a family.  Antique pieces, such as Table Lamps, can do a lot for a modern interior, adding a much warmer element when integrated into a décor.  It is quite often a surprise to discover just how “at home” an antique piece can look in a modern interior.

The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co specialise in antique table Lamp Lighting with an on-line range of over 100 unique, antique and Vintage Lamps on view.

Lamps are shipped ready wired for the U.S, the U.K and Australia.

You are invited to visit their web site at www.antiquelampshop.com

About the Author

Maurice Robertson, principal of The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co , has had a lifetime’s association with antique porcelain and pottery,with his commercial experience spaning a period of 40 years,including as a valuer to the Australian Government’s Incentive to the Arts Scheme. His long experience with antique ceramics and glass also includes dealing with leading museums and numerous international private collections. He has extended his ceramics expertise into the quality table lamps seen on the company’s site, he is well known to local and international interior designers who have included many of his table lamps in their projects and has also supplied items of national interest to the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister.

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MILLSBERRY CHRISTMAS SALE!?

Now that the holidays are through, i would like to purchase anyone these items on sale of course*

they are on sell in the store

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A Review of the Coca Cola Products Trend

The origins of Coca Cola® date as far back as 1885, when it was first named Pemberton’s French Wine Coca. It has come a long way since then, with new cola products available all the time. If you have never heard of Coca Cola® Products and their many offerings besides soft drinks, then you are in for a real big treat.

With the many products that are offered, you are bound to find one that you like. You often will find Vintage Lamps, Neon Clocks and many unique items that will keep a collector happy for many years. You can see perfect examples of many of these at well-known bars and pubs, and wherever you may find people playing pool or poker.

One of the great products available are Vintage Tiffany Lamps that go over pool and poker tables. They are popularly available in two sizes, the long 40″ lamps ideal for illuminating that tough shot. The 16″ round style is ideal for those long poker nights with your buddies. Whichever one fits your needs to best, you won’t be disappointed.

There are some of the great features that come standard with both of these lamps. Each of these Coca Cola® Products are made from handmade stained glass panels, with Zinc channeling. Both have ten-foot power cords, with grounded three prong plugs and are UL listed. It also includes the vintage handing pull chain switches with smooth pulling action.

With these Coca Cola® Products, you don’t have to worry about hardware, and the mounting brackets are provided, as well as three full feet of hanging chain. These are all packaged and ready to ship with great care, and prices are very reasonable, considering all the work that went in to make these as authentic as possible. These would be not only a great addition to your collection, but provide years of use and the center of conversation.

But these are not the only vintage products available. Another unique item that is a must have for any collector has got to be the Deluxe Coca Cola® Neon clock. This clock is a whopping 14″ in diameter and 3″ deep. It features not one but two neon lights, and inner bright white rings to light up the workings as well as a bright red outer light.

Some of the other features of these Coca Cola® Products include a high-grade glass cover, protecting the delicate lights and hands. The clock workings have highly accurate quartz movement as well. This clock will last for years, and even comes with a one-year warranty. With just a pull of the chain, you have your choice of a steady glow, or even flashing neon! What a great way to add some nostalgia to your décor.

But that’s not all! There are many other products available. If vintage pool products are what you’re after, there is a billiard ball rack, and well as a pool cue rack. The pool cue wall rack is a two-piece unit, officially licensed by the company. It has an oak veneer finish with a 10″ diameter full color logo and can accommodate up to eight cues. The pool Table rack is also an officially licensed product and is regulation size. Both of these would be a wonderful addition in any pool fanatic’s home.

If darts are more to your fancy, then there is a great product for you as well. They have a vintage dart cabinet that is also an officially licensed product. It is a large 22″ X 25″ unit made from solid wood with a medium finish. Not only is there a large full color logo on the outside of the cabinet, but also two smaller ones about each scoreboard.

That’s right, I did say scoreboard. Not only do you get the cabinet with this Coca Cola® Product, but a regulation-sized board, two sets of three darts, and all the mounting hardware included. The nice part is that it can be purchased for just around a hundred dollars, what more could you want?

All of these fine vintage Coca Cola® products and more can easily be found online. When purchasing any of these, make sure that each item has the Company Logo and not some cheap knock off. You won’t get the same quality, and it certainly won’t have the same value.

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Let Brian Garvin & Jeff West teach you more about Coca Cola Products and Coca Cola Vintage items at Poker Stars Direct today.

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How to find Best Deals on Furniture

Our home’s interior surroundings reflect our preferences in style, color, aesthetic, and lifestyle. We envelop ourselves with the things we love, and that which makes us feel comfortable and relaxed. Perceptive stylists know how to delve into someone’s style personality to create rooms that are, at the same time, relaxing and invigorating. Alone with the Sunday paper, casually entertaining 2 guests, or lavishly entertaining 20, we all want a comfortable and attractive place to come home to and enjoy family and friends. Time has developed many different furniture styles.

If you are planning your first decorating journey or you’re latest re-decorating, you can find modern indoor furniture or outdoor patio furniture to suite your finely tuned taste. The variety of choices is amazing; whether you are looking for dining room furniture, living room furniture, or a contemporary look for your bedroom. Online, you will find wholesale designer furniture for your needs and at your price preferred point.

When buying furniture hasty decisions can leave you spending a lot of money, only to be overcome by buyer’s remorse as soon as your eagerly awaited purchase is delivered. That can leave you with two unpleasant choices: the hassle of returning or exchanging your furniture, or learning to live with it even though it doesn’t feel right.

When choosing furniture for your home, remember to consider the decorating theme your using throughout your entire house. You’ll find that your own personality will shine through as you choose the best furniture, tables, Lamps and rugs for your home.

How you use space in decorating can make all the difference. Interior space is defined by walls, floors, ceilings, doors, windows, and any other architectural features. When decorating an interior you design in space, very much like an artist composing a painting on canvas.

Shopping for furniture these days is much different than it was a few years ago. With the internet so readily available, it is much easier to shop for and compare furniture prices online. When you are looking for any other type of furniture for your home, you should go online to see the selection.  You can often have the item shipped to you right away and it will end up costing you a lot less money. Select from only the best furniture representatives who offer quality, elegance, quick delivery to your home and, of course, great prices! The purpose of this is not only to save money, but also get best deals available on markets. If you’re not sure about what’s on offer then you can always use the internet to see if there are any independent reviews that might offer pointers.

The thought of buying quality furniture online may seem strange but it can be a great approach, particularly if you’ve already been able to see the item of furniture in question. Take a flexible approach and you’ll find that there are some great deals on solid furniture.

It all depends on how much you care to put into your new furniture, considering both your money and your time.

Visit SaleAndDiscount.com for grabbing best deals in the city around various categories and furniture.

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Kalpesh Ghag is a Web Developer and SEO-expert.He is maker of site SaleAndDiscount.com.You can read his blog at SaleAndDiscount Blog.

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Traditional Wholesale Wedding Gifts

Summer inevitably brings the height of wedding season, and with it the need for wedding presents. There is big business in the gift registry industry, and there is no reason wholesale retailers can’t get in on the action! With the popular trend of wedding websites, even a small wholesale retailer could offer gift registry services with or without a brick-and-mortar location. If the subject of traditional wedding gifts is baffling to you, here is a quick overview of traditional wedding gifts easily obtained at wholesale prices.

Wholesale Bedding

Let’s face it, those extra long twin sheets for the dorm bed just won’t lead to matrimonial bliss. Most couples about to wed have invested in a grown up bed with room for two. Affording extra sets of sheets might be a strain on the budget. High thread count wholesale sheet sets make great wedding gifts. If the color isn’t the perfect shade for the bride and groom, the wholesale sheets can easily transfer to a guest room bedding. However, if the wholesale sheets are of the highest thread count, the luxury will override any mismatch in color!

Wholesale sheet sets are not the only bedding items that are pricey in retail, but welcome wedding presents. Wholesale pillows, overstock comforters, and liquidated blankets work well as stock for customers with a wedding invitation in hand. The best wholesale bedding products will be shelf-pulls or company overstock, and still encased in the original packaging.

Wholesale Home Decorations

One fun activity for a new couple is decorating the shared living space. Friends and family members can help by providing the building blocks for this design. Wholesale home decorations, such as wholesale Lamps, overstock wall art, and surplus rugs can offer the deepest discounts. An easy way to develop a room style is to start with one piece as a guideline. By selecting a neutral, or specifically tailored selection, a bargain priced lamp, wall hanging, or rug could easily be the focal point to base the rest of the design.

Wholesale Dining Pieces

A clear indication of maturity is moving up from paper plates and pizza boxes. Married couples have a need for shelf-pull dish sets, and other Table setting items. Large discounts can be found on wholesale table linens, such as table cloths and napkins, and liquidated flatware. Make sure you stock at least a full six or eight person seating. Wedding guests will look to purchase complete sets of dining pieces, even if the items are offered at wholesale prices.

Wholesale Kitchen Products

The kitchen is the heart of a home. Great wedding gifts come again from sets of wholesale items. Wholesale cookware kits, with pots and pans, wholesale knife sets, and overstock or customer returned small appliances are all the rage. Why give the couple a retail priced blender, when a wholesale version is available for half the cost? Offer your customers the best variety in this category, and it won’t matter if an item is not on the official registry, if the price is right.

Wholesale wedding gifts make perfect sense for the discerning wedding patron. Wholesale wedding presents allow a customer to stretch the dollar, and purchase perhaps a nicer gift than what is affordable at retail prices. By providing wedding gift registry services on your website, or in store, you offer a wholesale solution to a costly growing problem. Consumer goods keep rising in price, and married couples are asking for more and more. With wholesale wedding gifts, everyone is happy. The customer spent less, the bride and groom receive a quality gift, and your cash register drawer is a little heavier.

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