Century Studios Gift Certificates

Not sure what to pick out at Century Studios for that certain someone on your list? Century Studios offers Gift Certificates!

Gift Certificates are available year round, can be purchased in any amount, and may be used on any in stock or custom made stained glass or for anything in our showroom. Call or stop by our studio/showroom today to purchase!

Holiday Hours

CENTURY STUDIOS
HOLIDAY HOURS

Now through December 23

Tuesday through Friday 10 - 6
Saturday 10 - 4
Sunday 12 - 4
Closed Mondays

1816 St. Clair Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota 55105
651-699-4838

Spider Lamp & New Pots

We recently completed a 15" Spider lamp for a client in Canada. This design features cast bronze spider "legs" and the vent cap represents the body of the spider.

Unlike real spiders, Tiffany Studios only designed the Spider shade with six legs rather than eight.













Bur Oak Pottery sent us a few new pieces, including two rare "Wally Birds". Each piece of Bur Oak stoneware pottery is individually hand made, and the final salt glaze firing is done in a wood-fired kiln. Here is a sampling of some of the new pieces:

Two Wally Birds, an Amused Bird and an Owl










A Horned Dragon Vase











A couple of Raven Vases









Three vases - Bonzai Lidded Jar, Oak Leaf Bowl, and Lizard Vase

Holiday Time

Well, here it is now November already, with Thanksgiving & Christmas just around the corner. This means that Century Studios is decked out for the holidays with a tempting selection of lamps, stained glass suncatchers, pottery, blown glass, and lots of holiday decorations for the tree.

True to form for this time of year, just as we got the Christmas decorations up, the Twin Cities was hit with a whopper of a snowfall - our first snow this winter, and it was over 10" in some areas. While this gives everything festive holiday look, it did make getting around a little tricky this past weekend.



The restaurant space next to us has now opened as Scusi, an Italian restaurant and wine bar. Round off your stop at Century Studios with a nosh and a glass of wine next door! Scusi opens at 4pm every day and on weekends they are also open from 9am to 2pm.

18" Peony

This week we completed an 18" Peony lamp for a local client. The client had asked us to create a shade that was full of color and personality. The challenge on a shade of this type is to put strong color into it, but to still have the colors blend. With its rich red flowers and the amber/green/red background, the completed shade has a warm glow. The blue/green borders give this piece the extra excitement our client was looking for.

The shade is pictured on the Ribbed base. The bottom of the lamp base mimics the shape of the shade, making it a perfect combination. The base rests on five balls, and the ribbed surface provides a subtle three dimensional quality to the metalwork.

Tobacco Leaf Base

In our last posting, we showed the 14" Dragonfly shade on a base that has not appeared in our showroom before - the Tobacco Leaf base. Created in our studio from molds taken off a Tiffany Studios' original example, this base has an interesting shape and wonderful detailing. The Tobacco Leaf base works well with any 12" or 14" shade.

New Lamps

For our recent show at the end of September, we created a number of new shades and bases, some of which are now on display in our showroom, available for purchase.

The 14" Dragonfly shade is the smallest of the Tiffany dragonfly designs. This design is perfect for showcasing vibrant color, and it makes a wonderful accent lamp. The jewels in the background of the shade were made by Century Studios, using molds taken from original Tiffany jewels. This exciting dragonfly was created in a fiery red/orange/yellow glass. It is pictured on the Tobacco Leaf base which was made in our studio using molds taken off an original Tiffany Studios' base.

Another dragonfly design created for our show is the 16" Dragonfly shade, pictured on the Swamp Flower base. The red-eyed dragonflies skim the surface of this shimmering shade with its cool, watery tones of blue and green. The Swamp Flower base works equally well with 14" shades.

The Chinese base supports our third shade, the 12" Apple Blossom. This surface of this reproduction four-sided base is incised with a stylized Chinese dragon motif which adorns the desk set pieces created by Tiffany Studios. This petite shade features flower centers that are hand chipped from thick pieces of golden yellow glass, giving the shade a jewel-like appearance.