Three way collaboration

Written By Robin Wade

Yesterday I took this pic of this super cool catalog stand that we are building for our American made, very "green" friends over at Shaw Living.  This piece will be comfortably housed in Shaw's beautiful Atlanta showroom for the upcoming market next month.  And, it's a great example of a super smooth collaboration effort that seems to have worked flawlessly between Shaw's showroom designer Kevin C, a healthy dose of nature's natural rotting efforts and mua'.

shawliving three way organic collaborationKevin dropped by  a few weeks ago for a tour of the studio and to pick out some slabs for the project.  I kept showing him walnut and cherry, and seemed to be drawn to these beautifully organic, somewhat "spoiled" oak slabs. 

And, now that it's all coming together, I have to say his instincts were spot on. This organic, three way collaboration worked, and now every time I see another of these "organic slabs" I'm looking for the perfect place for it.  I'll be sure to take more pics when the piece is completed.

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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