Stiffel Lamp Company
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Stiffel Co. is a lamp manufacturer based in Linden, New Jersey. The company was originally founded in Chicago in 1932 by Ted Stiffel.
Stiffel is based in New Jersey with a 40,000 square foot factory. In 2013, Cutting Edge acquired the rights to sell Stiffel brand lamps.[1]
History[edit]
Ted Stiffel made lamps in an art deco or minimalist aesthetics of the time. Most lamps, except for Tiffany, were intended for function over design appeal. Stiffel's lamps showed an artistic appeal. Noteworthy in the lamps made by the original Stiffel along with their brass artistic appearance is their weight.[2]
The company was acquired from American Brands in 1988 by two former E-11 Holdings executives. At the time, Stiffel employed 400.[3]
Stiffel became a subsidiary of American Brands when it added E-11 Holdings in February 1988.[4]
Stiffel created a "pole lamp," a vertical tube standing upright between the floor and ceiling of a room, and with lamp fixtures along the outside of the tube. Stiffel had secured a mechanical patent and a design patent, granted in 1957, on the pole lamp, and the lamp proved a "decided commercial success," according to the Supreme Court's opinion.
The Stiffel "pole lamp" – U.S. Design Pat. No. 180,251 Soon after Stiffel brought the pole lamp to market, the Sears, Roebuck & Co. department store put on the market copies of the lamp. Stiffel Co. brought suit against Sears, for patent infringement and for unfair competition under Illinois law, the latter claim based on Sears' allegedly causing confusion in the trade as to the source of the lamps.
Stiffel lamps are collected and sold on sites like eBay and Chairish. The trademark feature of a Stiffel lamp is a foil signature and a combination of metal and other materials in the composition of the lamp.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Cutting Edge Brings Back the Stiffel Brand". EnLIGHTenment.com. 6 February 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ↑ Laurie, Brenner. "How to Value an Antique Table Lamp". SF Gate. Hearst.
- ↑ Key, Janet (7 September 1988). "Exec Group Acquires Chicago's Stiffel Co". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
- ↑ Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co. [1]
- ↑ Jameson, Meredith. "How to Identify Marks of a Stiffel Lamp". Our Pastimes. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
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