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By Holzman and Rogers families
This piece combines our family tradition of creating stained glass art with our love of flowers.
This piece combines our family tradition of creating stained glass art with our love of flowers.
Sonia Rogers has volunteered at the Gardens at Laker Merritt since 9/2022 and in the "Diva Bed" rose garden since 2024ish. The Diva Bed highlights roses named after famous women. This installation of Roses by Lamp Light is also an ode to women glass artisens called the Tiffany Girls. This article highlights that many of the well known lamps, including the dragonfly seen here, was designed by Clara Driscoll, longtime head of the Women’s Glass Cutting Department at Louis Comfort Tiffany’s company.
Read the full story here: These Women Were the Real Geniuses Behind the Iconic Tiffany Lamps A chic light fixture reveals how female designers remade the Tiffany brand—and went largely uncredited for nearly a century.
Lamp team: Sonia Rogers, Shannon Rogers, Dave Holzman, Tema Holzman, Lynn Holzman and assitance from best friend Taylor Fisher who is like family.
Lamp design:
Lamp design:
The process of making the lamps follows many of the same steps we use with stained glass. We created a patern, cut out tissue paper and cellophane to create the design, and then "soldered" each piece together with electrical tape. Dave Holzman taught daughter Sonia how to do stained glass in the family garage/studio.
The process of making the lamps follows many of the same steps we use with stained glass. We created a patern, cut out tissue paper and cellophane to create the design, and then "soldered" each piece together with electrical tape. Dave Holzman taught daughter Sonia how to do stained glass in the family garage/studio.
Intial trial to see which materials best captured the look of glass
Was gifted a unused lamp off a local Buy Nothing group
Created the design in the classic Tiffany lamp style
Lamp base construction:
Lamp base construction:
Shannon Rogers put his artistic mind to work to map out and construct a cardboard base.
Companion lamps:
Companion lamps:
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