17 / Forest Scene
At the far end of the room above the stone fireplace in the Cascade Dining Room, is a relief carving Forest Scene by Portland artist, Erich Lamade. This low-relief carving is embraced by the surrounding dining room’s tables and arched-back wooden chairs made from local Douglas fir trees. Notice the arch backs of the dining chairs, resembling the signature Cascade architecture theme. Some cylindrical light fixtures resembling Indian drums are painted burnt red and yellow ochre in a zigzag fashion and are suspended from the Cascade Dining room’s ceiling by an iron rod.
The sub-floor entrance settles the eye past the entrance’s two distinctive coyote head ornamental wrought-iron gates made by blacksmith O.B. Dawson. Other elements of the gates include vertical and horizontal panels of zigzags, semi-circles and stair steps. The bolt is a rattlesnake shape. Fourteen handwoven draperies inside the dining room are true to the spirit of the originals of the 1930s and feature the era’s bright colors and horizontal stripes.
Carved wood panel, Forest Scene, by Erich Lamade, 1938
Wrought iron gates, Coyote Head Gates, by O.B. Dawson, WPA master blacksmith, 1937
Re-created woven drapes by Comprehensive Educational Training Act (CETA) textile workshop artists, 1975-79
LOCATION: CASCADE DINING ROOM- MAIN LOBBY (East)
WOOD- IRON- TEXTILES