modern bench design in the works

Jul 12

As you know if you've been following my posts, after over two years of the slow natural air drying process my three and four inch natural edge walnut lumber is out of the kiln, stacked up and ready to go. We've been working on a wonderful commissioned piece, and should be through in the next week or two. So, we should start to see some of these heavy, oversized, over built pieces completed soon. Hopefully they will look as good in real life as they have in my head for almost three years.

Robin Wade

Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.

robinwadefurniture.com

modern bench design in the works

waterlox finish on this 4" thick walnut countertop

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