Manufacturing Tiffany lamps

Manufacturing Tiffany lamps Manufacturing Tiffany lamps
Manufacturing Tiffany lamps

The company of Louis Comfort Tiffany proposed in 1902 more than 300 models of lamps, a mode of production in series was installed, in order to produce in great quantity our manufacture in China applies the same manufacturing methods.

Whereas an old Tiffany lamp can be sold several hundreds of thousands of euros (in 1985 a lamp Tiffany it is sold with the biddings for 528.000 $ custom), the price of a reproduction is on an average from 100 to 200 €.

The stained glasses of the luminaries are manually manufactured, manufacture employs employees especially trained for manufacture and the assembly of artisanal glasses according to the method of Louis Comfort Tiffany, we follow and require a completion of perfect manufacture.

The most elaborate stained glasses require hundreds of work hours, a Tiffany lamp is composed of several hundreds of pieces of stained glasses, the parts are crimped by a ribbon of copper assembled then welded with tin.

Ci below some stages of the manufacture of our luminaries until the loading in our containers.

 

 

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Pallets various artisanal glasses used for the realization of a luminary or a Tiffany lamp


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Overall picture of the manufacture of reproductions of Tiffany luminaries

 

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Plate glass hammered and folded blue

 

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Cut out glasses of the stained glasses 


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Working of glass 


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Polishing of glass


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Setting of the stained glass, each part is crimped of a copper ribbon


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Working of the stained glass


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Welding with tin, the most delicate part, the Tiffany lamp takes form

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Checking of the assembly, of the completion, then electric system the lamp is tested.

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Tiffany lamp finished

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The luminaries are packed in paperboards to measure

 

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Preparation and packing in paperboards to measure and shock-proof for the loading in our containers.