Rooms built to keep summer through the winter
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the great houses of Europe built orangeries: long rooms of tall south-facing windows where citrus trees were carried through the cold months. Later glasshouses raised pineapples in heated pits and, at Chatsworth in the 1830s, the banana that became the Cavendish.
The Orangery at Heville & Rick takes its scents from those rooms: the blossom, the leaf, the warm glass and the damp earth of the tubs. Each season the labels carry the work of the artists the house is showing, and a share of every purchase goes to them.
