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Jackson Lake Lodge picture window
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileWyoming
above Willow Flats in Grand Teton National Park, looking west to Mount Moran

Jackson Lake Lodge picture window

— — the window that frames the mountain.

— Where it lives

Not only on a wall.

A small tile on the nightstand catching the morning. A larger one above the fire. Yours, wherever you spend the slow hours.
— On the nightstand, a 6-inch on a walnut stand
— Among the books, a 6-inch leaning into the spines
— Beside the kettle, a 12-inch propped
— Down a quiet hall, an 18-inch floating off the wall
— Above the fire, the 24-inch in a walnut surround
— a note from the studio

“The lobby of Jackson Lake Lodge holds a sixty-foot wall of glass that opens west across Willow Flats to Mount Moran. The lodge was built in 1955 for John D. Rockefeller Jr.; the architect set the picture window to the view, not the room. People come in, set their bags down, and stop talking for a minute.

from the studio
Jackson Lake Lodge picture window
— bring it home

Jackson Lake Lodge picture window, 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.

What kind of piece?
One tile — square or rectangle.
How big?
the popular one — counter, shelf, nightstand
6 × 6 in · 15 cm · 1.6 lb
Surface finish
A clear glossy finish — the artwork reads as if under resin. Ideal for show-pieces and framed wall art.
How it sits
A hidden cleat — sits ¼″ proud of the wall.
$58
Hand-finished and shipped from our studio at the foot of the Smokies. On your wall in about ten days.
— size
6 × 6 in
15 cm
— weighs
1.6 lb
solid in the hand
— surface
ceramic, hand-finished
art rests beneath a thin glossy finish
— from
Knoxville, TN
our family studio, at the foot of the Smokies
— start a Coaster Set

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.

— about Jackson Lake Lodge picture window

The place, in three passes.

A little of what's known, in case you fall down the rabbit hole — or want to go see it yourself.
— the place

Jackson Lake Lodge sits on a bluff above Willow Flats in the northern half of Grand Teton National Park, on US 89 between Colter Bay and Moran Junction. Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood designed it for John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Grand Teton Lodge Company and it opened in 1955. The structure is built largely of concrete cast to look like timber, intended to weather without competing with the mountains. The main attraction is the second-floor lobby, where a sixty-foot picture window opens west toward Mount Moran across the broad Willow Flats meadow.

— the visit

The lodge operates seasonally, typically from mid-May through early October. It holds 385 guest rooms, most in detached cottages around the main building, and reservations open more than a year in advance for peak summer dates. The lobby is open to non-guests; many visitors come simply to stand at the picture window or watch for moose grazing in Willow Flats below. The Mural Room serves dinner with the same view. Wildlife on the flats is most active in the first hour after dawn and the last hour before dusk.

— the light

The west-facing window catches afternoon and evening light on the Teton Range, with Mount Moran taking the brunt of the alpenglow as the sun drops behind it. Through summer the light holds in the sky until close to ten o'clock at this latitude. Shoulder-season afternoons bring weather across Willow Flats: a thunderhead can build over Mount Moran in twenty minutes, sit briefly, and pass. The window faces almost due west, so the line of light moves predictably across the meadow from spring through fall.

— where
United States · Teton County, Wyoming
— within
Grand Teton National Park
— elevation
2,073 m · 6,802 ft
— position
43.8790° N · 110.5850° W
— the neighborhood

What's nearby.

A handful of named places within an hour's walk or short drive. Some we've already painted; some we will.
8 km W
Mount Moran
peak
1 km W
Willow Flats
wetland meadow
5 km SE
Oxbow Bend
river bend
8 km NW
Colter Bay
lakeside village
4 km E
Snake River
river
N
Jackson Lake Lodge picture window
Mount Moran
Willow Flats
Oxbow Bend
Colter Bay
Snake River
— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about Jackson Lake Lodge picture window — and about bringing the piece home.
— about the place

The lodge opened in 1955, built for John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Grand Teton Lodge Company and designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood, who also designed Bryce Canyon Lodge and the Ahwahnee at Yosemite.

The main lobby window is a sixty-foot wall of glass on the west side of the second-floor great room. It opens onto Willow Flats with Mount Moran directly across, framing one of the most photographed views in the park.

Gilbert Stanley Underwood, the architect behind Bryce Canyon Lodge, Zion Lodge, and the Ahwahnee. At Jackson Lake he used concrete poured to mimic timber, intended to weather without standing out against the Tetons behind it.

The wide marshy meadow that drops away from the lodge bluff to the west. The flats hold a tributary of the Snake River and are a regular feeding ground for moose, elk, beaver, and a heavy summer bird population.

Yes. The lobby and the picture window are open to anyone during operating season, generally mid-May through early October. The Mural Room and Pioneer Grill are open to walk-in diners as well.

Mount Moran, 12,605 feet, sits directly west across Willow Flats. Its broad flat summit and the Skillet Glacier on its east face are the dominant elements in the lodge view.

— about the piece in your home

It carries particularly well for customers who honeymooned there, who took family to the lodge, or who remember the moment they walked into the lobby and saw the window. The view is what people bring home in their head.

The piece reads as mountain-modern with a strong horizontal line. It works in great rooms with timber or stone, in lake-house interiors, and in midcentury rooms that can hold the lodge's own 1950s lineage.

Yes. The picture-window composition gives a great room another deep horizon to work against, and it does so without leaning into the kitsch end of the lodge look.

A single Large covers most sofas. For a longer console or a statement wall, a four-tile Mural extends the picture-window line; a nine-tile Mural treats the whole wall as the lobby view.

Yes, in the Dura Satin or Matte finish. Both are scratch-resistant and handle steam and splash well. Reserve the Glossy finish for framed pieces away from direct water.

A soft microfibre cloth, slightly damp with water. Skip household cleaners and abrasives. The colour lives in the ceramic surface, not on top of it, so it will not wear off over time.

Yes. Every piece is original to Wender Studios in Knoxville, Tennessee. Reid Wender chooses each place that enters the atlas; nothing is licensed in or resold from third parties.

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