Adding task lighting such as a lamp at the desk or a Tiffany table lamp next to their favorite reading chair can make life much more pleasant. By using our smaller Tiffany lamps as task lighting in those favorite little areas of your home you can make them much more enjoyable for spending your time.

When Charles passed away, Louis began working more at Tiffany & Co where he began designing his own fine jewelry. Instead of concentrating on jewelry for the American elite, Louis began thinking of jewelry affordable to the common man.
Whether you look at his stained glass panels or his fine handmade lamps Tiffany was a expert at bringing high quality items to more than just the elite. Tiffany was much more than an artist he was also one of the first industrial designers.

Jewelry designed by Louis Tiffany used stones that matched the colors he used in his beautiful stained glass works. These pieces featured gemstones from all over the US that wear the centerpiece in affordable jewelry that could be purchased and worn by the common man. Over the years this Tiffany art jewelry has been lost in the shadows of his other fine works but in recent years they have come back into the limelight.

Before there were ever any of his Tiffany lamps or beautiful stained glass panels, Louis Comfort Tiffany was first and foremost a painter. At the age of 17 Tiffany left school to study art with George Innes in New York. In a very short two years one of his paintings was accepted into the Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design. Over the next 30 years his paintings, mostly watercolors but some oils as well, were seen in some of the top galleries in such cities as Philadelphia, Chicago, and Paris.

For the art lover looking to see one of the paintings done by Tiffany over the years, these are tougher to find than his antique Tiffany lamps. Only about a third of the paintings he ever did ended up in museums around the world. The rest of his beautiful landscapes and garden images are in private collections.

Tiffany’s skill as a painter is a large part of the reason his stained glass panels were such a success. The beautiful images he was able to capture on canvas transferred over beautifully to glass to create an art form that is now practiced by thousands of glass artisans in their studios.

From these small pieces of stained glass Tiffany was able to create the gorgeous tiffany table lamps and floor lamps which are now such major collectible items that they fetch extremely high prices in auction houses whenever they go on sale. Plus there is a thriving market for stained glass lamps, which are still made by hand and sold using the patterns, and designs that Tiffany created during his career.

Instead the Tiffany studio employed many artists and other talented people to create the pieces Tiffany envisioned. This freed up the man behind the elegant stained glass to follow his artistic vision and continually improve upon and create beautiful pieces of fine art glass, which became the thing to have in your home at the time. Of course Tiffany did keep his hands on the daily operations and oversaw every single detail on the art glass panels and lamps, which carried his studios name.

Though considered art his glass works were always aimed at the collector who wanted only the best to display in their home, as Tiffany himself did. Tiffany is now famous for being both an artist of beautiful works as well as an industrial designer that made and shipped thousands of glass art pieces all over the world.

So many homes only have one lighting fixture or one strip of track lights hanging from their ceiling and this seems adequate, but it really can be lacking in the warm and inviting feel. If you are not in love with your home due to the lack of warm lighting consider adding some beautiful Tiffany lamps to the rooms you spend the most time to increase the amount of light that is available in it.

For the living room add a Tiffany floor lamp next to your favorite chair to read by. These lamps take up very little space and add so much lighting while adding that beauty only stained glass can add.

Also consider adding Tiffany table lamps to end tables or buffets to increase the lighting in corners or more illumination to the center of the room down close to where it is more useful unlike more tract lights high on the ceiling.

Just placing a few Tiffany lamps around any room can add so much lighting to your life. Plus as a added bonus these lamps can be moved around at any time to get the lighting exactly where you need it, when you need it.