amazing table featured on cover of may's Architectural Digest

may architectural digest coverI love just about everything about this room that's featured on the cover of Architectural Digest this month.  To begin with, it features an amazing Minguren walnut table made by the master George Nakashima.  Absolutely beautiful.  But what I appreciate is how architect Mark Ferguson and interior designer Delphine Krakoff have featured this amazing piece along with an eclectic beautiful mix. 

It clearly is not my personal style, which lately I've been calling new age mid century modern, but it works so well.  There's walnut and sycamore.  There are Arbus arm chairs, Holly Hunt fabrics.  There's Louis XIV and art deco, and so much more.  Wonderful example of just another way to showcase a wonderful natural, American made, (and let's not forget sustainable) "work of art" in a beautiful setting. 

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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