What comes to mind when you year the term "Tiffany lamp"? If your vision fills with pictures of elegant lamps, or flawless tables, or stained glass shades, your thinking of the right things. But did you know that a lot of different people make Tiffany lamps, but they are not all equal. When you looking to purchase a Tiffany lamp, it’s extremely important to know the difference in quality you will get.
First off, the most valuable type of Tiffany lamps you can find are the originals that where made in the late 1800′s and early 1900′s by Tiffany Studios in New York. The Founder of Tiffany Studios was Louis comfort Tiffany had a great way with glass metal and wood, and improved his talents which where impaired by the European Art Mouveau moment. His designs where based around the free flowing curves of nature. His lamps where extremely popular in the early 1900′s, but went into decline when the Art Modern movement came along.
His death in 1933 was another blow to the Tiffany lamp company. By the 1950′s Tiffany’s designs were starting to come back into fashion after been featured in Museums and private collections, they were honoured as complete work of art’s. Today you can find Tiffany original’s going up for sale for as much as 800k and even more if there is something really special about it.
What you need to look for when buying a replica Tiffany lamp, is the quality of the piece itself, Good replica lamps are solid in design, and solid in marterials, the really bad ones are made from plastic and glue, and not even good enough to be thrown into a bin. The good lamps are made from copper, flawless stained glass, and other related high quality materials.
If you find a Tiffany lamp at a price to good to be true, it is because it’s a good looking, but cheap knockoff. You can however make sure you are getting a good quality official Tiffany lamp if you go through authorized dealers of the manufactures like Meyda Tiffany and Dale Tiffany.
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