18" Grape, continued

Work continues to progress on the 18" Grape lamp. The shade is composed on the light table. Colors and textures are carefully considered and artfully blended to add depth to the shade.

The 18" Grape shade has five repeated sections. After Irwin Terry completed the layout for the shade, we began to foil the pieces.

The shade begins at the top with a crown of openwork branches. We create the bronze castings using a mold that was taken off an original Tiffany Studios example.

Once the foiling was completed, Irwin began transferring the pieces onto the waxed lamp form in anticipation of soldering the shade. The crown of branches will be positioned in place on the top of the form.

 

Several Projects

We are currently working on two large shade projects for clients. The first is a 22" Dogwood shade for which Bill Campbell did the glass selection. The shade will be lighter in tone with pink and white dogwood flowers.

After completing the layout, Bill has been foiling the pieces.

The large shade form is covered in our house made sticky beeswax. The foiled pieces will be held in place by the wax in preparation for soldering.

Once the cutting and fitting of the dogwood pieces was complete and Bill began the foiling, Irwin Terry moved on to begin the glass selection for our next project, an 18" Grape. The 18" Grape is a Wisteria-style lamp.

Starting with the lush grape leaves, Irwin is composing a shade that will have a saturated color palette. As Bill completes the foiling and transfer of the dogwood lamp pieces onto the form, Irwin will be finishing the layout of the grape and will move to soldering the 22" shade.

Calamondin Orange Tree Lamp

We completed the 18" Calamondin Orange Tree lamp for our clients. This Century Studios original shade design was conceived by Bill Campbell in 2014. With 2050 individual pieces of glass, this is the most elaborate shade we create.

Infinite patience is required to cut and fit each of the tiny pieces. Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry are seen foiling one of the five section repeats of the shade.

Bill transferred the foiled pieces onto the waxed lamp form. The cast bronze branch crown at the top will be incorporated into the shade as it is being soldered together.
 

Irwin spent many hours soldering the shade. There are lead branches in high relief in the body of the shade.

When composing the layout Bilo chose a wide variety of glasses for this colorful shade. The Calamondin Orange plant both flowers and fruits simultaneously, making it a perfect subject for a stained glass shade.

The shade is mounted on the study Tree Trunk base, which was originally created by Tiffany Studios for their signature wisteria lamps. This is the second time we have made this lamp. The Calamondin Orange Tree lamp will no longer be available as we are retiring this pattern from production.