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