No matter my age, the best moments in life are playtime. While creating unique accent lamps, time stops and I’m gone. It’s just plain fun. In this product category, child images frolic with abstractions and I’ve just let my funny bone do the driving.
Play Time Glass Lamp – A Doodle Turned Into Fire-Lit Art
Our Playtime glass lamps are where free-form creativity meets disciplined craftsmanship. Often inspired by the subconscious sketches found in the margins of old notebooks, these lamps capture the restless energy of imagination let loose. We created these pieces for collectors who appreciate glass as both art and attitude, something bold enough to start conversations and personal enough never to feel mass-produced.
Our Bow String lamp features a vivid firecracker-red glass body, layered with a high-gloss finish that amplifies depth and light. Around the center band, the glass remains transparent, allowing illumination to pass through and animate every detail. What you see isn’t decoration, it’s storytelling in molten form.
Play Time glass lamp series – Where Art, Humor, and Craft Collide
The Play Time glass lamp series was created as a celebration of movement, sound, and instinct. Bow Strig follows a suggested musical clef that wanders freely across the surface, forming a doodle-like roadmap. The black lines aren’t painted, they’re created using scorched horse tail hairs, fused into the glass to create organic wiggles that feel alive.
We treat every lamp in this series as a one-of-a-kind object. No molds. No shortcuts. The result is a sculptural accent lamp that shifts character depending on the lighting and viewing angle. When flood-lit, the lamp projects prismatic tones and layered shadows, revealing new details with each rotation. This is why collectors love displaying it as a rotating diorama.
Why does the design feel so raw and expressive?
The heart of Bow Strin is controlled chaos. This lamp is spontaneous and random, like a thought scribbled before it disappears. The Raku-inspired glasswork, powder-glaze elements, and violin-bow horse hair textures combine to create a tactile, almost rebellious surface. This isn’t décor meant to blend in; it’s meant to stand its ground.
Play Time Glass Lamp Series are the Perfect Addition to Your Home.
The Play Time custom glass lamp series represents our love for experimental techniques and storytelling through glass. Bow String, Peeling Paint and Splitting Particles use scorched horse tail hairs. They are woven directly onto the surface, creating organic, unpredictable patterns that resemble notebook doodles or sound waves frozen in time.
This series is crafted using advanced powder glazing and Raku-influenced techniques. The results create prismatic color displays when illuminated. When viewed under flood lighting, the lamp reveals projected imagery that changes with rotation. It engages the viewer when either illuminate, under artificial light, or in full sun.
What makes this lamp feel truly one of a kind?
Because the Playtime glass lamp can never be duplicated.
No two lamps emerge from the same path. Clear glass hairlines scatter illumination. The glaze reacts uniquely. Even the way light refracts through the transparent band varies. This is intentional. We let art happen.
Sized at 4 x 10 inches, this table lamp works as an accent lamp, a sculptural centerpiece, or a unique gift for anyone who appreciates original craftsmanship.
FAQS
1. What is the Play Time glass lamp, and what makes it different from other accent lamps?
The Play Time glass lamps are handcrafted art glass accent lamp designed with a more playful, expressive visual style. Unlike traditional decorative lamps, Schilling Glass lamps emphasize bold color movement, light interaction, and artistic spontaneity. Each is a standout piece of artisanal decorative lighting.
2. What defines the Play Time glass lamp series?
The Play Time glass lamp series are defined by its vibrant color layering, dramatic graphic patterns, and light-driven visual depth. Each lamp is handcrafted, resulting in unique variations that appeal to art and design enthusiasts who value originality over uniformity.
3. Can I order a Play Time custom glass lamp?
Yes, a Play Time custom glass lamp can be commissioned to reflect specific colors, moods, or artistic themes. They are a strong choice for buyers who want personalized artisanal decorative lighting tailored to their sense of the aesthetic.
4. Are Play Time glass lamps meant for lighting or decoration?
Play Time glass lamps are decorative accent lamps first. They provide ambient illumination while their primary purpose is to function as art glass décor. They provide atmosphere and visual interest, rather than task lighting.
5. Where do Play Time art glass lamps work best in home décor?
Play Time art glass lamps work best in multiple settings: a center display piece in your
living room, creative studio, bedroom, home office. Any display area where artistic lighting can act as a focal point. They are especially effective in modern, eclectic, or curated interiors.
6. Where can I buy authentic Play Time glass lamps online?
Authentic Play Time glass lamps are available directly through the Schilling Glass Play Time collection, ensuring originality, craftsmanship, and direct access to artist-created designs.
A doodle, following a suggested musical clef, wanders all over this lamp. Ever look at the back of a high school notebook? The good ones are filled with doodles. These are a mental escape from all that dead air in the classroom. This doodle tableau becomes a roadmap for a scatter of woven of scorched horse tail hairs. They create the wiggly black lines .
All of this is depicted against a fire cracker red. It’s transparent around the middle band and finished with a high gloss top layer. My wife says she’d pay someone to get it out of our house. But they’d have to fight me.
Shown amongst my other photos for this piece, is one by Ms. Camille Martin, TA based artist, poet, photographer. I discovered her work displayed by the “Peeling Paint Appreciation Society.” Like Alice in Wonderland down the rabbit hole, my imagination just tumbled into this image. I applied my typical guidelines; first simplify, then exaggerate. In my accent lamp glass media, the image has no edges. It just flows.
Two colors encircle this accent lamp. The black is labeled “Illusion Midnight”. The orange is a 50/50 mix of “Cosmic Sassy” and “Spanish Fly”. The curved streaks are clear glass. The wiggly black lines are scorched horse tail hair.
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There’s a technique developed in raku pottery where they create vibrant wriggles of black lines. They use horse tail hairs. Just what I need to depict nuclear fission where subatomic debris flies off in all directions. Sketched on a glossy, vivid blue and silver glazed surface, I’ve combined this technique with dry powder coating. On this table lamp, a composition of transparent circles is connected with random lines. Circles and patterns transpose on each other as the lamp is rotated.
A lamp with an image that relates to an individual sports athletic event: A friend challenged me. A group of sky divers floated into my imagination. Now the fun started. On the face of my lamp, they fall through a particolored hole in the sky. Below, on the back face of my lamp, is a landing zone. Agricultural fields bounded by dark hills on the left and on the horizon, a slender river.
This art glass lamp has seven different layers of powder coated glaze.
On this unique glass art lamp I reveal the energy source that makes frogs suddenly leap and croak ’till dawn. When kids fly around, frogs snatch them out of air like bugs. So frogs are bulging with the exuberance of kids at play. Bight orange eyes bulge above the frog’s body which is splashed in colors of tan, lime and forest green.
Who would come up with this? At Bonita Canyon grade school, awards are given for art and my seven year old took a prize. The composition on Cat Full of Fish is a re-rendering. I used seven separate layers of powder glaze. One for each color. All the fish are in clear glass. Below a deep blue rim filled of clear glass bubbles, now the cat appears inside an aquarium, staring out at us.
The playful projections of a disco mirror ball inspired Delicious. Bands of firecracker red and silver flow through a scramble of colored dots and clear glass eyelets. Gazing through the eyelets reveals the silvery inner surface. This lamp embodies the spirit of dancing lights.
A handcrafted glass creation that projects the joy, surprise, and elation of a kid’s birthday party. Dots frolic around the top and bottom. Colors are subtle gold, firecracker red and clear glass. This lamp celebrates playfulness.
This powder coated lamp, a new art medium on glass, is inspired by the Italian opera character Harlequin His role is that of a light-hearted, nimble servant. The harlequin is a composition of dots and squares in lime green, orange, and clear glass. These shapes collide, bringing mirth to center stage.
Italo Calvino’s whimsical novel Invisible Cities inspired this design. An inky blue sea captures reflections from twin moons. A pale blue sky with clear glass stars and meteors expands above a pair of identical mountains. This lamp projects surrealistic images of an alien planet.
No matter my age, the best moments in life are playtime. While creating unique accent lamps, time stops and I’m gone. It’s just plain fun. In this product category, child images frolic with abstractions and I’ve just let my funny bone do the driving.
Play Time Glass Lamp – A Doodle Turned Into Fire-Lit Art
Our Playtime glass lamps are where free-form creativity meets disciplined craftsmanship. Often inspired by the subconscious sketches found in the margins of old notebooks, these lamps capture the restless energy of imagination let loose. We created these pieces for collectors who appreciate glass as both art and attitude, something bold enough to start conversations and personal enough never to feel mass-produced.
Our Bow String lamp features a vivid firecracker-red glass body, layered with a high-gloss finish that amplifies depth and light. Around the center band, the glass remains transparent, allowing illumination to pass through and animate every detail. What you see isn’t decoration, it’s storytelling in molten form.
Play Time glass lamp series – Where Art, Humor, and Craft Collide
The Play Time glass lamp series was created as a celebration of movement, sound, and instinct. Bow Strig follows a suggested musical clef that wanders freely across the surface, forming a doodle-like roadmap. The black lines aren’t painted, they’re created using scorched horse tail hairs, fused into the glass to create organic wiggles that feel alive.
We treat every lamp in this series as a one-of-a-kind object. No molds. No shortcuts. The result is a sculptural accent lamp that shifts character depending on the lighting and viewing angle. When flood-lit, the lamp projects prismatic tones and layered shadows, revealing new details with each rotation. This is why collectors love displaying it as a rotating diorama.
Why does the design feel so raw and expressive?
The heart of Bow Strin is controlled chaos. This lamp is spontaneous and random, like a thought scribbled before it disappears. The Raku-inspired glasswork, powder-glaze elements, and violin-bow horse hair textures combine to create a tactile, almost rebellious surface. This isn’t décor meant to blend in; it’s meant to stand its ground.
Play Time Glass Lamp Series are the Perfect Addition to Your Home.
The Play Time custom glass lamp series represents our love for experimental techniques and storytelling through glass. Bow String, Peeling Paint and Splitting Particles use scorched horse tail hairs. They are woven directly onto the surface, creating organic, unpredictable patterns that resemble notebook doodles or sound waves frozen in time.
This series is crafted using advanced powder glazing and Raku-influenced techniques. The results create prismatic color displays when illuminated. When viewed under flood lighting, the lamp reveals projected imagery that changes with rotation. It engages the viewer when either illuminate, under artificial light, or in full sun.
What makes this lamp feel truly one of a kind?
Because the Playtime glass lamp can never be duplicated.
No two lamps emerge from the same path. Clear glass hairlines scatter illumination. The glaze reacts uniquely. Even the way light refracts through the transparent band varies. This is intentional. We let art happen.
Sized at 4 x 10 inches, this table lamp works as an accent lamp, a sculptural centerpiece, or a unique gift for anyone who appreciates original craftsmanship.
FAQS
1. What is the Play Time glass lamp, and what makes it different from other accent lamps?
The Play Time glass lamps are handcrafted art glass accent lamp designed with a more playful, expressive visual style. Unlike traditional decorative lamps, Schilling Glass lamps emphasize bold color movement, light interaction, and artistic spontaneity. Each is a standout piece of artisanal decorative lighting.
2. What defines the Play Time glass lamp series?
The Play Time glass lamp series are defined by its vibrant color layering, dramatic graphic patterns, and light-driven visual depth. Each lamp is handcrafted, resulting in unique variations that appeal to art and design enthusiasts who value originality over uniformity.
3. Can I order a Play Time custom glass lamp?
Yes, a Play Time custom glass lamp can be commissioned to reflect specific colors, moods, or artistic themes. They are a strong choice for buyers who want personalized artisanal decorative lighting tailored to their sense of the aesthetic.
4. Are Play Time glass lamps meant for lighting or decoration?
Play Time glass lamps are decorative accent lamps first. They provide ambient illumination while their primary purpose is to function as art glass décor. They provide atmosphere and visual interest, rather than task lighting.
5. Where do Play Time art glass lamps work best in home décor?
Play Time art glass lamps work best in multiple settings: a center display piece in your
living room, creative studio, bedroom, home office. Any display area where artistic lighting can act as a focal point. They are especially effective in modern, eclectic, or curated interiors.
6. Where can I buy authentic Play Time glass lamps online?
Authentic Play Time glass lamps are available directly through the Schilling Glass Play Time collection, ensuring originality, craftsmanship, and direct access to artist-created designs.
