Hearthstone Lounge Design Details
C onceived as the hotel’s “great” room and modeled after traditional game rooms often found in turn-of-the- 20 th -century Arts and Crafts homes, the lounge is a central gathering place located off the Great Hall. Game rooms of this time often leaned toward the masculine in design and choice of materials and the Hearthstone Lounge is no exception; however, to balance the space, it does feature a collection of art pieces that represent a series of female muses that inspired the great artists of the Arts and Crafts period. Uniquely, this lounge is constructed in redwood veneers from a single tree. The tree, a redwood hundreds of feet tall that had fallen naturally, was hand-selected by the interior designer and purchased at auction in Northern California by Walt Disney Imagineers. The carved wooden art piece over the bar depicts a woman drawing a peacock on a piece of parchment. Peacock feathers were a source of inspiration to some artists who abstracted their designs into stained glass panels. Beneath the carving is an epigram, a short witty saying that focuses on a single thought. This one,“Nature is the source
of all artistic expression,” appeared in Elbert Hubbard’s 1911 book, A Thousand and One Epigrams.
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