Interiors From Spain

Written By Robin Wade

Interiors from SpainIt was great seeing lots of American designers during Design Week, but Design Week and ICFF are clearly international venues.  The most significant presence from a country was by far from Spain.  They leased massive floor space, and supplied many of Spain's best modern designer's with room for each of their showings.  Quite impressive.  It was also interesting that they seemingly had the same large presence with big sleek, modern booth at the HDexpo in Las Vegas.  What the heck is Spain up to?  I don't know, but their modern furnishings are quite impressive.

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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