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Archive for September, 2010

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Sundays 8/7c on ABC

On one of those 100 degree 100% humidity days last summer, my daughter and I visited Baltimore to join the awesome crew for Extreme Makeover’s Maryland Project. The sizzling temperatures did not slow down any of the film crew, designers, TV hosts or volunteer workers at all! It was a miraculous display of teamwork and sweat! Only I couldn’t figure out why the celebrities never looked like they were melting— a special breed? With a film crew in one corner, my daughter & I painting a stairwell in another corner, designers frantically adding last minute touches, and volunteers bringing in more merchandise, the basement room came together in record time! They REALLY do complete those huge projects in a week! It all worked like clockwork with nobody even getting upset! We are honored to have provided the lighting for the project. Watch Extreme Makeover, Home Edition this Sunday 8/7c on ABC to seen the completed project!

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Featured on Made by Girl

Special Thanks to Jen over at Made by Girl for blogging about our Golden Chain Porcelain Table Lamp, Mini Art Glass Table Lamp, New Modern Spindle Table Lamp, and several of our table lamp shades. We can’t wait to see the finished bedroom and let us know if you need any help picking out lighting!
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Tiffany on Display

We have a world-class art museum right here in Richmond, Va. and I was so excited when the Tiffany Color & Light exhibition came this summer. During my musical stroll through the galleries, I was awed by the dimensional aspects of Tiffany Glassworks: the depth of colors; the breadth of glass types; the layering techniques used; and the 3-D effects of the stained glass windows. Louis Tiffany’s trademark magnolia stained-glass window exhibits all of these!

Rainbow-like iridescence, golden luster (known as Favrile), and lava-like cypronite glass are just some of his specialties. Inspired by nature, Louis Tiffany developed ways to make glass look like feathers, draperies, confetti, water, jewels (cabochon), granite, lava, ice, and more. One of his famed “Tiffany girls”, Claire Driscoll, designed many of the well-known classic lamps such as the Wisteria and the Dragonfly stained glass lamps. The mark that Tiffany and his glass-making studios made on the stained glass industry remains a strong influence today, over 100 years later!

To read more about Tiffany Studios, click here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Studios

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts:
http://www.vmfa.state.va.us

Shop our Tiffany style lamps:

tl09127mu-01Dragonfly Tiffany Table Lamp

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Wisteria Tiffany Table Lamp