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After doing almost nothing around here except make/design the 2012 New American Furniture,  we spent a few hours outside, slabbing some of the tornado downed Phil Campbell log.  Not sure exactly what all we ended up with, but I have a feeling it might just what we need to direct the design of the Phil Campbell table that we'll be making - then auctioning off for our neighborhing community.

This town is going to need a lot more help than this little table is going to provide.  Thank goodness for all the Phil Campbell's around the world that have congregated their support and amazing influence. 

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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.
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