A Glass Ceiling Worth Preserving at the Palace Hotel

San Francisco Magazine Jules Older Jules Older 70,000 pieces of glass suspended 41 feet in the air. If you looked up from your pan-roasted salmon during lunch at the Palace Hotel’s Garden Court, you’d see its stunning ceiling—70,000 individual pieces of glass suspended 41 feet overhead. And for six weeks this summer and fall, the view included something extra: Above the translucent glass of that storied ceiling, erected in 1909, human bodies were in motion. Too much Schramsberg Blanc de Bl...