Modern building and insulating materials are a "game changer" when it comes to constructing a solid replacement roof over your existing conservatory.
Due to the technological advancement in producing lightweight components it is now possible to improve your old inefficient conservatory roof, with it's noisy polycarbonate roof sheets, that makes your conservatory too hot in the summer, and too cold in the winter!
If only Henry G. Marquand would have come to Admiral, he could’ve had the real thing. As it was, he had to make do with a sketch.
This stained glass trompe l’oeil (deceives the eye) piece is now exhibited in the Museum of the City of New York.
Henry G. Marquand House Conservatory Window 1883 – 1884
Designer: Richard Morris Hunt (1827 – 1895)
Maker: Eugene Stanislas Oudinot (1827 – 1889)
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