The clients arrived at the studio one afternoon — drawn in by a telephone book listing, or the studio itself as they drove past. They owned Carter & Company, a California-based firm specializing in hand-printed historic wall paper reproductions for museums, historic sites, and preservationists. They brought with them a section of wallpaper from the dining room of the Byers-Evans historic house in Denver, Colorado. The request: could the pattern be recreated in stained glass?

The design is dense Art Nouveau — large blooms in deep crimson and rose pink rising through swirling foliage and curling amber scroll-work, framed in soft pink with amber corner accents. Translating a flat printed pattern into a medium of transmitted light meant making every color decision fresh. The foliage became Uroboros green: a rippled art glass shot through with amber and purple, a short run that was never produced again once it was gone. The clients came to the supplier to choose the glass together. The panel was built to hang in any window of their choosing