Corbels, Brackets & Ornament · Mountain Modern & Rustic
Branching Log Brackets in the Old Faithful Inn
A wide view of the Old Faithful Inn's lobby structure, showing its branching lodgepole-pine brackets, log posts and balcony railings rising to the roof.
Design characteristics
The most memorable details of the Old Faithful Inn are its gnarled, branching brackets and railings, made from naturally twisted lodgepole pine. They turn structure into ornament. Selecting and shaping branching timber is specialist work, but the same spirit can be captured in carved or assembled brackets for a mantel, range hood or stair. Mountain interiors often use one such element as a focal point.
Classification
- Category
- Corbels, Brackets & Ornament
- Material
- Lodgepole pine
- Motifs
- Gnarled bracket, Log and timber
- Maker or designer
- Jim Peaco
- Evidence
- Documented historical object
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Architectural context
Heavy timber, log and stone, from park lodges to modern mountain houses. American West · rustic c. 1880–1940; modern 2000s onward.
