Lakes Region (Winnipesaukee, Squam, Newfound, Sunapee) is summer-and-fall pine-clad lake country, not alpine
— — pine country with the lakes set into it.
Not only on a wall.
“Four lakes laid across the middle of the state, ringed by white pine and red oak rather than alpine rock. Winnipesaukee is the big one, twenty-one miles long, with steamers running out of Weirs Beach. Squam, just north, is the quiet one where On Golden Pond was filmed in 1981. Newfound runs deep and cold. Sunapee sits west, its own watershed, with a small ski hill above the shore. The water is dark and warm by August, the colour the loons call across in the evening. — from the studio
Lakes Region (Winnipesaukee, Squam, Newfound, Sunapee) is summer-and-fall pine-clad lake country, not alpine, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
The Lakes Region sits in central New Hampshire, between the Merrimack Valley to the south and the White Mountains to the north. Lake Winnipesaukee is the largest, roughly 72 square miles of water at about 504 feet of elevation, with 253 named islands. Squam Lake lies just north, six and a half thousand acres of quieter water held by the Squam Lakes Association since 1904. Newfound Lake, west of Plymouth, is one of the cleanest lakes in the state and reaches 183 feet deep. Lake Sunapee is the western outlier, its own watershed under Mount Sunapee.
The lakes work in two seasons. July and August are warm-water months, when the surface of Winnipesaukee runs into the high seventies and the M/S Mount Washington steamer makes its daily run out of Weirs Beach. Late September into early October turns the shoreline maples and birches over to red and yellow, and the water cools quickly. By December most of the smaller bays freeze; the official ice-out date on Winnipesaukee is tracked each year by the Mount Washington's captain and usually falls in mid-April. Winter shoreline is quiet, ice-fishing shacks, no steamer.
These are pine-shore lakes, not alpine tarns. The water is tannin-darkened from the surrounding forest rather than glacier-fed and turquoise, and the bottom drops off slowly from sand and granite cobble. Newfound is the deep, clear exception, fed by Cockermouth and Fowler Rivers and reaching 183 feet. Squam sits at 561 feet of elevation, ringed by working forest land protected by the Squam Lakes Conservation Society. The lakes drain south through the Winnipesaukee River into the Merrimack, eventually to the Atlantic at Newburyport, Massachusetts, about 110 miles away.