868 Lighting
Why is lighting important?
868 Meadow reaches toward a design style that embraces the early century ideas of Louis Comfort Tiffany, the mid-century ideas of the rocker light switch and the 21st century idea that lighting should be healthy and low cost.
868 Living Room light fixture
Living Room Light Fixture
The 868 Living Room has a Tiffany Replica light fixture made with Tiffany Glassworks glass using an Odyssey mold patented by Tiffany Studios. This light fixture is a replica of the one which hung in Laurelton Hall Louis C. Tiffany's home on Long Island. However instead of the lead which use to keep the glass together a copper/zinc banding is used and actually cleanses the air. New Tiffany replica's utilize the patented molds which allow glass artists to use the pattern. Tiffany replicas also utilize the Tiffany glass studios in upstate new York so that the glass they are using is the same patent as the originals. Each Tiffany Replica is unique in that the glass artist chooses the coloration and the selection of the glass. In this wonderful living room fixture the glass artist has chosen an ombre effect to the glass with semi transparent jewels at each corner. The effect is a warm light that also provides enough light to read by.
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Dining Area Light Fixture
The Tiffany Replica light fixture in the Dining Area is made with Tiffany Glassworks glass using an Odyssey mold patented by Tiffany Studios. This is another fixture in 868 which is inspired by a fixture Tiffany installed in his home on Long Island. Instead of the lead which use to keep the glass together during Tiffany's time, there is a copper/zinc banding used and it actually cleanses the air. The art deco accents along the edges were quite popular during the turn of the last century and have become even more popular during the turn of our current century. The flattened circles look like illuminated pebbles and show off the colorations of 868 Meadow
The Southern Bedroom Light Fixture
The wonderful display of harmoniously colored squares shows an homage to art deco while being completely modern. The Tiffany Replica light fixture in the Southern Bedroom is made with Tiffany Glassworks glass using an Odyssey mold patented by Tiffany Studios. This light fixture is a replica of one which Louis C. Tiffany patented listing Clara Driscoll as a co-designer. Clara Driscoll was an unknown glassworks designer for Tiffany who came to light in 2006 after letters were found by one of her ancestors. Mixed in with the letters (some from Tiffany congratulating her on another "winning design") were newspaper clippings of the awards Clara won and the recognition Tiffany sought for her during a time period when women did not receive such support. The original fixture Driscoll designed was of a more muted shades but when the light fixture is turned off one can begin to see the Driscoll part of the plan. Beautiful either on or off, a high quality fixture can be first seen in how different it looks between being lit and unlit as this one shows.
Northern Bedroom Light Fixture
The Tiffany Replica light fixture in the Northern Bedroom is made with Tiffany Glassworks glass using an Odyssey mold patented by Tiffany Studios. This light fixture looks like a light beige patch of stones when it is off and is wonderfully colored brown hued stones when lit. This light fixture is the closet to the goal of Tiffany in his work with lighting since he wanted to "express nature in light" he felt nature should be the direct inspiration for his work with light and so sought to create objects which used natural light, shapes and forms. Tiffany was newly respected in the late 20th Century as part of an exhbition mounted by the Metropolitan museum of Art called In Pursuit of Beauty which is a quote from Tiffany who was explaining what he felt his life's goal should be.
Hallway Light Fixture
The light fixture found in the hallway is called a modified globe chandelier. It has over 200 separate quartz crystals faceted to reflect the light in a marvelous way. The contemporary curling brass structure mimics the round quartz in a fantastical way.
Notes for Lighting Page
Some information was obtained from the following sources:
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Overlooked No More: Clara Driscoll, Designer of Visions in Glass for Tiffany
By Elaine Louie New York Times Published Feb. 23, 2023
She oversaw the Tiffany girls, a group of glass cutters and artisans who created elaborate, colorful lamps that are still in demand.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/obituaries/clara-driscoll-overlooked.html
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https://www.metmuseum.org/articles/pursuit-of-beauty-aesthetic-movement
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https://angelsferrerb.wordpress.com/2017/04/14/louis-comfort-tiffany-the-pursuit-for-beauty-inspired-by-nature/
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http://mosaicshades.com/ody2005/index.html
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