The Peacock Room Lounge is seen on Feb. 7, 2017, at the Historic Davenport Hotel in Spokane. Artist Susan Kim designed and cut nearly 6,000 pieces to create the stained-glass ceiling mosaic. (Tyler Tjomsland / The Spokesman-Review)
Artist Susan Kim, seen in her Spokane Valley studio in 2002, was commissioned to rebuild a stained-glass window for the Davenport Hotel. (The Spokesman-Review photo archive)
John Willmann, Brian Young and Randy Scholes lift a panel of a giant stained-glass mosaic into the ceiling of the Peacock Room Lounge at the Historic Davenport Hotel in 2002. The artist, Susan Kim, said the 12-by-28-foot mosaic comprised 5,970 pieces, “give or take a few.” (The Spokesman-Review photo archive)
Artist Susan Kim watches as a crew installs panels of stained glass in the ceiling of the Peacock Room Lounge at the Historic Davenport Hotel in 2002. She designed and cut nearly 6,000 pieces of glass to create the 21 panels of the peacock mosaic. (The Spokesman-Review photo archive)
Artist Susan Kim wipes down a section of stained glass on June 14, 2007, that now hangs on the ceiling of the renovated Fox Theater in downtown Spokane. Kim spent four months working on the restoration of the Fox, mending glass pieces for the theater’s giant starburst and sunburst light fixtures, as well as several art deco pieces on the exterior of the building. (The Spokesman-Review photo archive)
Artist Susan Kim wipes down a section of stained glass on June 14, 2007, that now hangs on the ceiling of the renovated Fox Theater in downtown Spokane. Kim spent four months working on the restoration of the Fox, mending glass pieces for the theater’s giant starburst and sunburst light fixtures, as well as several art deco pieces on the exterior of the building. (The Spokesman-Review photo archive)
Artist Susan Kim photographs stained-glass windows that she repaired at the Davenport Hotel in 2002. (The Spokesman-Review photo archive)
A large stained-glass panel depicting the Monroe Street Bridge, by artist Susan Kim, decorates a wall of the lobby bar at the Davenport Grand Hotel, shown Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)
Susan Kim, a celebrated stained-glass artist whose intricate works adorn the Davenport hotels and numerous churches in the Spokane area, died this month at age 51.
Kim’s works include the nearly 6,000-piece ceiling mosaic in the Peacock Room Lounge at the Historic Davenport Hotel, which draws the attention of any visitor who stops in for a drink.