You see, those were the 'sweet spot' times in our industry when art glass manufacturers were exploring, inventing and rediscovering all manner of interesting glasses such as Drapery, Ring Mottles, various iridescence, Fractures and Fracture/Streamers- of which many were the invention of Tiffany Studios back about a hundred years ago.
And we carried it all.
Heck, we even had our whole east wall full of lamp patterns and molds. We held full eight week classes just on lamp construction. Stocked well over 300 lamp bases at all times.
How things have changed.
We can blame the Chinese, which might be true only in that they now provide a reasonable product at a ridiculously low price (the morality of how those prices are achieved are a discussion best left for another day) which has devalued the efforts of our customers who now are making a lamp worth a tenth of what they used to be.
One thing that hasn't changed though, is the genius of Louis Tiffany, and the legacy of his work and its effect on our industry today.
He deserves to be better known. Check here for a great resource.
Further to the genius of Tiffany, Mikey is currently working on posting a couple of hundred pictures of the Tiffany Windows of Navy Pier in Chicago. A taste below-
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