IHFC InterHall October 2011

Written By Robin Wade

IHFC InterHall October 2011IHFC InterHall October 2011

Made some great progress on the booth, after driving on into High Point this morning then waiting in the marshalling yard for a couple of hours for our turn at the loading dock.  I've been anxious to see how the new wall mural installed and looks.  So far so good.  Shouldn't take too long tomorrow to install the last three our four panels.  Really amazing how well the sepia tint matches the walls here.

I really like High Point.  I don't know that I've ever seen a town that's so single minded.  This little city has done almost nothing but furniture for ??? well lots of decades.  And it's good to see, that even in these economic times, there still seems to be a lot of big business going on around here. 

The booth's looking a little rough here, but we'll get it all squared away Thursday, and hopefully get an afternoon of rest before Friday's "soft opening" in Interhall.

IHFC InterHall October 2011

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
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