I visited the Left Bank Gallery in Palouse, Washington. This gallery displays local artists' works adjacent to a quaint bistro in the small town of Palouse. This gallery utilizes pedestals, tables, everyday furniture, display cases, and even a safe for displaying the artwork. They also mount a lot of the painted work on the walls while the smaller sculpture and other pottery and figurines are on the table tops and cases. For artificial lighting the gallery uses what looks like hand made track lighting by stringing wire along the ceiling and the lighting fixtures which are threaded through the wire are directed to particular art pieces. There is a bigger pendant light in the center of the main room of the gallery for central overall lighting as well as a ceiling fan that also has a light. The ceiling fan can help with ventilation in the room. Additionally, there are vents and heaters in the space. Naturally lighting plays a large role in this gallery because there are many large scale windows that take up half of the walls in the space.
The observer is directed through the space by the way the tables and desks are situated. I automatically traveled through the gallery in a clockwise direction because the tables were angled in a way to imply a path in that direction from the entrance. There is also a desk where you would go to purchase the art and that automatically makes the observer think that you should end there. The environment of the interior had blue carpet and cream furniture. There is music for the mood and neutral and cool tones. There is a beautiful coeffered ceiling which gives the interior a historical feel.
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