The growing popularity of using antique heart pine—removed from turn-of-the-century mills, warehouses, and barns—in new construction or architectural renovations is the most recent effort of many architects, interior designers, and homeowners to utilize sustainable tree and lumber sources. 

Robin Wade Furniture was lucky enough to source heart pine (top right) from a late 1800s, Columbia, Tennessee, grain mill. These structural supports are short, thick

blocks that were buried in the ground, used to level corners of the building. “We are just sanding and leaving these beams in their full form,” wood artist Robin Wade says. “As the Frank tables (bottom right), they are almost their original size. They started thick and short and we are making the best use of them.”

Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream.  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart