Maxwell in High Point's IHFC sponsored by WITHIT

Written By Robin Wade

Maxwell in High Point's IHFC sponsored by WITHITMaxwell in High Point's IHFC sponsored by WITHIT

Apartment Therapy's Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan shared wonderful (and inspiring) creative words of wisdom to a room full of (hardly surprisingly) mostly women at 7:30 this morning.  It was a totally packed audience.  He had every gal that I saw on the edge of their seats.

Maxwell has been working on this for the past year or so.  Ten things you need to know.

It was a wonderful talk.  I video'd a bit of it, but the wifi is sooooo slooooow in here.  Hopeing to be able to upload tonight from the hotel.

Maxwell in High Point's IHFC sponsored by WITHIT

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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