Adirondack pieces are acclaimed to be among the finest the
rustic style has to offer. Other rustic forms tend to be rough, even crude
in comparison.
Adirondack rustics in the city are a wish. Simplicity and
primitiveness are a passage to the solitude of the woods to a summer
vacation, to a family retreat, to a campfire’s warmth.
Adirondack rustics are historic fusion, oriental traditions,
Victorian elegance, craftsman details, French sophistication. English
refinement. All these elements aid in the ability for rustics to blend into
any decorative backdrop.
Adirondack rustics celebrate nature, John Burroughs at
Woodchuck Lodge and Slabsides, Ralph Waldo Emerson at Walden Pond. Abraham
Lincoln’s log cabin. The great camps and the hermit’s hut of John Rondeau.
Adirondack Rustics "offer a respite from the monotonous
lines and hard artificial surfaces of machine made furnishings. The ills of
urban life were no different in the 1850's or 1900's than today: too much
confusion, hurry, indifference, hazard, pretense. These stresses it is
believed, were due to people having removed themselves from nature.” Craig Gilborn
Rustics touch the soul at the most personal level. They
evoke primitive feelings and emotions that stir us, calm us, connect us with
ourselves. It is not just furniture... it is life.
