Like other years, this year's tree is 62 ft. tall and a white pine. It takes about 3 weeks for a crew of 8 to decorate the tree, which has over a thousand ornaments and over 4,000 bulbs, plus 125 red Macy's stars and 125 snowflakes. Be sure to visit the tree at Lenox Square during the holiday season and help carry on this time-honored tradition!
Anyway, times were not always rosy for Louis. Things were so bad that he had to stop production of certain Tiffany lamps and dramatically slash the prices of his other stained Floor lamps he had in stock... because times were changing... interior decor of American homes were changing, and Tiffany lamps didn't seem to have a place in these changing times. So he dropped the price of his lamps to shift the remain lamps he had in stock.
The back light to this model gives consistent levels of light across the screen, even into the corners which are as bright as the center. The matte screen of this model also works very well under bright portfolio lamps and lighting condition where it can maintain color and black levels well, without a loss of degradation. As with all LCD sets, there will be a loss of quality when sitting at an angle to the screen, but over all viewing still gives it a quality picture.
Twenty-five years later in 1958, the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York staged a Tiffany Retrospective which included some of Tiffany's light fixtures. This was followed by an Art Nouveau exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art which included a Wisteria lamp. This reignited the same fervor for Tiffany's art that occurred in 1900.
In the Havemeyer mansion, there were only two known Tiffany table lamps. These had patterned mosaic shades on top, with bronze Japanese bases-in the form of a basket with lizards wrapped around. Here, and with the Queen Anne's lace design of the Tiffany chandelier in the music room, we find the second great aesthetic influence in his life, that of nature. Though he always had some geometrically patterned and historically influenced work, nature would steadily become the dominate form in Tiffany lights.
