During the nineteenth century, great palm houses were built around the world. These fantastical greenhouses were designed as much to showcase the new building materials – steel and glass that had become available to architects and builders, as they were to house specimens.

They were whimsical, transparent, crystalline conservatories often attached to a formal manor home, and they provided their occupants the opportunity to bask in light and congeniality. Cast iron, steel and glass were the materials that made them possible and this custom, steel conservatory greenhouse is no exception.

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