Camnitzer remembers his astonishment on discovering that European colonials in the Caribbean, as in many places in the Southern Hemisphere also, would dress in furs at Christmas, despite the heat and humidity, to demonstrate their status. The Christmas trees, carefully labelled, are as exotic in their northern provenence to someone from the southern hemisphere as is the Palm House's little empire of sothern spices to a native of Liverpool..
Lewis Gibbs

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Camnitzer remembers his astonishment on discovering that European colonials in the Caribbean, as in many places in the Southern Hemisphere also, would dress in furs at Christmas, despite the heat and humidity, to demonstrate their status. The Christmas trees, carefully labelled, are as exotic in their northern provenence to someone from the southern hemisphere as is the Palm House's little empire of sothern spices to a native of Liverpool..
Lewis Gibbs

Completed in 1896, the Palm House was restored in 2001. Camnitzer takes the opportunity to question our habitual reading of the compass with two interventions, one on the building's exterior, the other among the seasonal plantings from the Liverpool Botanical Collection.

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Completed in 1896, the Palm House was restored in 2001. Camnitzer takes the opportunity to question our habitual reading of the compass with two interventions, one on the building's exterior, the other among the seasonal plantings from the Liverpool Botanical Collection.