China Cabinet

Remote fishing camps? Geography was no barrier to luxury. Style must be served.

he Restigouche camps in New Brunswick still maintain a lot of their original furniture purchased in New York or Montreal. Good quality semi-porcelain or ironstone is in use. At Kedgwick Lodge, there are selected examples of Tiffany sterling flatware, although plate is generally used today. This chest takes one back to the early part of the twentieth century, when the accoutrements matched the Gilded Age and, later, the style one imagines of Joseph Pulitzer II and George and Coleman Carnegie, nephews of Andrew Carnegie, all of whom frequented the river.