TUBULAR GLASS AND BRASS STIFFEL-STYLE TABLE LAMP

A tall slender Stiffel-style table lamp with a cylindrical glass body, brass fittings, and a curved pyramidal black metal base. Paired with a lined off-white silk shade. The STIFFEL LAMP COMPANY was founded in 1932 by Ted Stiffel (1899–1971) in Chicago, Illinois. Stiffel's ambition was to manufacture portable light fixtures that were intelligently designed and accessibly priced. His dedication to excellence would soom establish the firm as the industry's quality leader. Raised in Memphis, Stiffel initially pursued a music career. After discharge from service in World War I, he worked for Western Electric in Chicago and then for the lighting firm, Nellie J. Kaplan Co. His own firm began operations by supplying lamps to regional department stores. By the 1940s it owned a factory large enough to produce the volume required for national distribution. STIFFEL was eventually competing with the likes of Frederick Cooper. Its output was celebrated both for its splendid design and the precise c