The private glass conservatory of Gabriel Stone’s Hudson Valley estate was an architectural masterpiece of curved thermal glass, black steel ribbing, and radiant teakwood decking. Perched on the edge of a high granite bluff seventy miles north of Manhattan, the conservatory hovered directly over the churning blue waters of the Hudson River. Outside, a gentle, fragrant May rain tapped against the glass dome, while weeping willows and flowering dogwoods swayed…
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