7 / Barlow Room & the Calendar of Mountain Sports
The right hallway from the front entrance leads you to the Barlow Room, a popular family game, meeting space and comfort spot that was once the Ski Grille food cafeteria. Wooden carved gates with large native-inspired decor curtains open toward some stairs and down to the room’s several linoleum wall mural panels. Hinges, hardware, plates and handles of these doors were made by Dave Thompson.
Note: An ADA accessible elevator entrance is located at the back left corner of the room. Follow the lower lobby hallway, turn right and proceed along the stone hallway. The ADA entrance is to the right.
“The Calendar of Mountain Sports,” linoleum wall murals were carved and painted by Douglas Lynch. Regional forester, Thomas Sherrard, as well as Lynch’s wife, Alexandra, his art instructor and other friends served as models for the mural. Lynch also painted two folkloric murals for the arched walls at the back of the room.
Wood carvings, such as a canoe light fixture and some crossed-ski wall decorations, a ping-pong table and shuffleboard game give the room a playful mood. Above the shuffleboard game, RLK and Company’s founder, Richard L Kohnstamm, shines in a photograph with his son, friends and ski instructor, Pepi Gabl.
Wall murals- oil and shellac on carved linoleum, The Calendar of Mountain Sports, by David Lynch, 1937. (South Wall - Fly Fishing, Spring Walk, Angler & Fly Box; West Wall - Packhorses, Family Camping, Camping & Wildflowers, Cabin & Cooking; North Wall - Dinner Table, Dancers, Toboggan, Photographer; East Wall - Winter.)
Door Iron works by Dave Thompson, 1986
LOCATION: FRONT ENTRANCE GROUND FLOOR LOBBY (RIGHT HALLWAY)
WOOD - IRON - TEXTILES - LIGHTING FIXTURES