The Lake Placid Adirondack Store, Part 2

I was on my way home from the farm but had stopped in Lake Placid to take a photo tour of The Adirondack Store. I found it colorful, exciting and suited my tastes exactly. Of course it didn't suit my wallet at all, but looking is always more fun than buying anyway. This elegant dining table was set with burl bowls and bear candlesticks:

And for your sitting room, a moose antler chandelier, deer antler wall sconces, birch bark furniture and framed Adirondack prints. A stuffed pheasant completed the rustic great camp motif:

A lively bedroom set for your ski slope loving children:

And a bookshelf with the uprights made of deer antlers and the shelves made of rough cut slabs. A birch bark bowl set on a shelf and a birch bark mirror above made it clear that this was an Adirondack style room:

More Adirondack furnishings. I was particularly fond of the moose antler lamp and the baby bear poster:

I was stopped in my tracks by this coonskin (and, I presume, other skins as well) throw. It was magnificent but I figured it would be pricey:

So I took a closer look at the price tag. No, I don't think I'll be buying one to adorn my bed any time soon:

The place was bright, colorful, fun and full of surprises:

Did you notice the stuffed porcupine on the door frame in the previous picture? Well, here's a close-up:

As you can see, this was a place of wonderment and whimsy:

I was just about to leave when I spotted this huge, carved wooden chandelier. It was magnificent:

And a deer antler chandelier. But I'd left the farm many hours ago and only reached Lake Placid. I had many miles left before I reached home. So I thanked the store personnel and exited to resume my journey back to Albany:

The Lake Placid Adirondack Store, Part 1

The dogs and I were on our way home from a weekend at the farm when I decided to stop in Lake Placid and take a photo tour of The Adirondack Store, another vendor of Adirondack themed gifts and home furnishings:

But before I entered the main building, I headed over to the cabin next door to have a look inside:

They had lovely stools made of limbs and the cross-sections of logs. If one assumes they had more than just what was displayed here, this could surely have been called a stool sample:

I'm a sucker for log and wicker furniture but will have to be satisfied with just looking. For one thing, I simply can't afford such things and even if I could, my large "herd" of dogs and cats would destroy them forthwith:

Inside the main building I asked for permission to take photos and was told to feel free but to "leave us out of them." My first stop was a stuffed beaver sitting at a well set dinner table. A formal dinner party should always include a beaver:

Wow! Now, that's just lovely. I suppose it wouldn't be very comfortable without cushions, though:

A moose antler floor lamp for your parlor:

And a coffee table made from a glass covered mini-canoe:

Easy chairs made to order with a whole wall of fabric samples from which to choose:

This living room setting actually reminded me of my uncle's home in LaGrande, Oregon when I was a kid. I guess the western theme is very similar to the Adirondack theme:

A stone fireplace for evenings together after a day of skiing:

China and crystal with which to set an Adirondack dinner table. This was a colorful and fascinating world, so much so that I was unable to limit my photos to just one post. So I'll post more pictures from The Adirondack Store in Lake Placid tomorrow: