"a slow table company"

Jul 19

Our new slogan "a slow table company" was obviously derived from the mother of the slow food movement, Alice Waters. The aging of the wood is just one of the factors that allow us to so clearly qualify. There are several other qualifying factors that I look forward to "discussing" in future posts. For now, it's another beautiful Sunday afternoon. Brilliant blue sky. And I'm heading "up the creek" with my three pups to cool off and ponder on all this . . . quite . . . slowly.

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

"a slow table company"

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3" thick natural edge walnut console table in the works