Antique Adirondack Style Painting Frame. 

Condition: Commensurate with age. 

Overall Size: 24 x 28 x 2 in. 

Sight Size: 20 1/4 x 24 in. 

Adirondack style refers to the rugged architectural and furniture style generally associated with the Great Camps within the Adirondack Mountains area in New York. The builders of these camps used native building materials and sited their buildings within an irregular wooded landscape. These camps for the wealthy were built to provide a primitive, rustic appearance while avoiding the problems of in-shipping materials from elsewhere. Elements such as whole, split, or peeled logs, bark, roots, and burls, along with native granite fieldstone, were used to build interior and exterior components. Massive fireplaces and chimneys built of cut stone are also common within the Great Camp architecture. The use of native building materials was not only for promoting a natural appearance, but also to avoid the expense of transporting conventional building materials into a remote location, and spilled over into the furnishings of these locations in everything from doorknobs to picture frames. The style drew upon Swiss chalet architecture, which had been introduced to America by Andrew Jackson Downing around 1850. Log construction was popularized by Downing's protégé, Calvert Vaux, in his pattern book “Villas and Cottages” in 1857. Downing’s design principles emphasized utility, structural expression, and conformity to natural surroundings. The building form was influenced by Stick style, but using log framing instead of dimensional lumber to express the structural system of the buildings. Interior decorations such as rustic and Mission Style furniture, mounted trophies of fish and game, Japanese fans and screens, and the displaying of Native American artifacts were also influenced by these design ideas.

Commensurate with age.