FAQ

On any given shade, you can open its Specifications tab and find a listing for "finish."

This refers to the way a shade is manufactured, or a treatment (like etching) that it receives after manufacturing.

Here are some descriptions to help clarify what you see:

• Etched glass (aka frosted glass) has a "foggy" sort of appearance that reduces glare and softens light.

• Shiny Opal is a translucent, glossy milk-white glass that produces an evenly diffused glow which also helps mask the bulb inside the shade. Very popular, and common to painted shades and schoolhouse-style shades.

• Satin Opal is etched to further soften and diffuse an opal shade's light.

• Cased glass gets its name from fused layers of different glass. Usually, colored glass is outside and white glass is inside, to help cast bright light downward. Commonly used on cone shades.

• Art glass is hand-rolled, translucent layers of molten colored glass. Art glass shades cast an incomparable warm and intimate glow, as seen in lantern-style lighting and on handmade Tiffany-style shades.

• Tinted glass adds rich and subtle color to the light from frosted shades.