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Sometime in the early 1980’s a man sits on the floor of his garage trying to put together two sections of a lampshade. His hands are desperately preoccupied with the task of soldering the pieces together while he tries to hold the two sections together with nothing less than his feet. The man: Scott Riggs; the shade: Scott’s first Tiffany reproduction lamp. “I felt like a little monkey,” remembers Riggs with a chuckle, after several unsuccessful attempts to get the piece together properly and several burns to his feet, Riggs ended the night throwing both the shade and the soldering iron across the room at the garage door. - Read More
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