ICFF Energy

Written By Robin Wade

ICFF ENERGYWay behind on blog posts.  I'm now 2/3rds through my first week of my "2011 Table Talk Tour", and have lots to share, but I'm afraid it's going to have to be delayed till I get to Las Vegas and get some pool time in.

There's more energy and excitement at Design Week NY, than I've seen in years!  So many new products, great designs, and even more important - positive energy than I've felt since 2007. 

The only negative I can come up with is the weather, and only two Starbucks kiosks in the entire Javits Center.  Neither seems to be slowing anybody down. 

Yes, it's actually getting to be fun again!  The pic to the left was a beautiful display of lighting from a company from Spain.  I'll get the name a credit these over the top creative folks from across the sea.

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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