After a year of icehouse rehab, it’s been rewarding to add art and artifacts to showcase in this new space. Yesterday Susan and I returned from another creative collab with Nico Sardet at Furchgott Sourdiffe, mostly transforming and framing vintage artifacts that will be displayed in the icehouse.
The warmly sepia-tinged photograph above captures the bathhouse that stood on Rosslyn’s waterfront once upon a time.
This historic photograph was gifted to me by Essex neighbor and friend Todd Goff some years ago, and it stands as one of relatively few visual records documenting this iteration of Rosslyn’s waterfront.
(Source: Rosslyn Bathhouse)
Soon it will be matted and framed behind museum glass to illustrate a no longer extant prequel to the lakeshore as we know it today.
This second image is one of two promotional posters, crumbling with age, but still capturing some of the enthusiasm of for water sports more than half a century ago.
The Essex Regatta, a still legendary Sherwood Inn event in the 1950s and 1960s, is the heralded summer celebration featured in the… promotional posters.
(Source: Artifacts & Ephemera: Regattas & Ferries)
Soon these time capsules will adorn the interior of the icehouse. Can’t wait to share finished design and decor shots!
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