| Many people attribute the popular stained glass | | | | 1837.However, stained glass artwork has a much |
| artwork style found in lamps, windows and other | | | | longer and relatively unknown history. Stained glass |
| items to a man named Louis Comfort Tiffany who | | | | panels have been found that are nearly 2,000 years |
| lived between 1848 and 1933. He was an American | | | | old. Single stained glass panels were discovered in the |
| artist and designer whose name is synonymous with | | | | remains of ancient Pompeii which was destroyed in a |
| the Art Nouveau era. Tiffany was a painter and | | | | volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius around 79 A.D. |
| interior decorator. He promoted the copper foil | | | | Many artifacts that were found in the ruins of |
| method of stained glass that is so popular today. He | | | | Pompeii are in museums around the world especially in |
| is widely credited for the popularity of this method | | | | Naples, Italy.Stained glass like we are familiar with |
| and it carries his name. His company made lamps, | | | | was also used in religious settings as early as 11 A.D. |
| windows, doors, jewelry, metalwork, ceramics, blown | | | | in Europe.- Jim HoyleSince 1979 Jim Hoyle has owned |
| glass mosaics, etc. Louis Comfort Tiffany founded | | | | and operated Lamp Outlet - North Carolina's Most |
| the Tiffany Glass Company in 1885 but it no longer | | | | Unique Table Lamps, Floor Lamps and Antique Lamps |
| exists. His father, Charles Lewis Tiffany, previously | | | | - Antique lamps and exclusive new unique table lamps |
| had started a jewelry store named Tiffany & Co. in | | | | and floor lamps. |