Centiva in Las Vegas

Written By Robin Wade

It was great to see Centiva, a wonderful green hometown company so well respresented in Las Vegas.  They have been making beautiful high end vinyl flooring in environmentally green ways for years.  Mayor Irons has suggested a couple of times that I meet these guys - particularly Thomas Trissl.  Well, he wasn't in Las Vegas this week but his company was so well represented in a beautiful, large booth.  Really funny to have to go to Las Vegas to meet these great guys.  But I look forward to seeing Leigh Wright, their senior designer as well as John Bonney when they get back to town. 

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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