#Anvil inn jackson windows#

It took more than another decade for this contemporary take on the Western aesthetic-called “mountain modern”-to reach downtown. Its lobby featured a steel and stacked-stone fireplace and artwork made from reclaimed barn wood by local artist Ben Roth. Then Hotel Terra opened, also in Teton Village. It was completely contemporary, yet completely Jackson Hole. When it opened, I described its interior as “cowboy cosmopolitan.” Long accustomed to overstuffed, leather-upholstered, brass-tacked armchairs, I was taken with two sleek, high-backed armchairs just off the lobby that were upholstered in a brazen black-and-white cowhide and whose oversize arms were of bird’s-eye maple. Several years later came the Four Seasons Resort and Residences in Teton Village.

#Anvil inn jackson windows#

Logs and animal mounts were out and clean lines, Pacific redwood walls, and floor-to-ceiling windows were in. When Amangani opened on East Gros Ventre Butte in 1998, it was the valley’s first hotel to modernize the traditional Western aesthetic that had been dominant since dude ranches here began hosting guests in the 1920s.

By Lila Edythe Sweden-based Westerlind curates the products sold in the remodeled Anvil Hotel’s lobby mercantile. Changing with the Times The “Mountain Modern” aesthetic has arrived in downtown Jackson at new and newly remodeled hotels and motels.