You can own a great piece of functional local art - on a chair! North Conway's Adirondack Chair project is in full swing! Dubbed the Art-a-Rondack chairs, some forty chairs have been painted by local artists and are on display at their sponsoring business throughout the Mount Washington Valley.Some of our favorites are right in North Conway Village - Top left, Wine Thyme boasts this fun chair all pre-relaxed!
The Met Coffeehouse features a coffee-themed chair by Dianne Mello-
certainly one of the Valley's most celebrated artists. The chair has mosaic tiles arms and the seat features a painting of our local Conway Daily Sun, detailed down to the coffee stains!
certainly one of the Valley's most celebrated artists. The chair has mosaic tiles arms and the seat features a painting of our local Conway Daily Sun, detailed down to the coffee stains! A second Chair by Dianne Mello is on display at the Framed Art Superstore - in case you haven't made the 
connection yet, Dianne is the artist who's work is featured in the famous collection of local vintage style ski posters! Here is her first vintage advertising style artwork for summer in the valley, painted on an art-a-rondack chair! Watch for our first summer vintage ad poster with similar art!
connection yet, Dianne is the artist who's work is featured in the famous collection of local vintage style ski posters! Here is her first vintage advertising style artwork for summer in the valley, painted on an art-a-rondack chair! Watch for our first summer vintage ad poster with similar art!Also at the Framed Art Superstore, is this great waterfall 
painted chair by Sally Dinsmore - another accomplished and in-demand local artist known around the valley for decades - having owned her own gallery and frame shop for over twenty years.
painted chair by Sally Dinsmore - another accomplished and in-demand local artist known around the valley for decades - having owned her own gallery and frame shop for over twenty years.
Behind the Met, (between the Met and Ben & Jerry's) you will find the Fields of Ambrosia shop. Where the sponsoring business owner is also an artist! Here is one of two great chairs sure to draw attention. A final must-see chair (at the Eastern Slope Inn) is painted by world-renown artist and North Conway resident Grant Hacking. this chair actually features three Grant Hacking original landscapes, so you could
be one of very few people in the world who can make the claim of owning three Hacking originals!
be one of very few people in the world who can make the claim of owning three Hacking originals!
The Framed Art Superstore carries limited edition reproductions of some of Grant's local work. You can bid on the chairs all summer at the sponsoring business, online or by phone with the chamber of commerce - for a complete list of all the chairs, and the latest from the Mount Washington Valley Chamber of commerce, visit their website. www.mtwashingtonvalley.org.
More than just beauty, art serves a function in our homes. The art we choose can make us feel more energetic, or relaxed, more hopeful or ambitious .
