custom walnut timber shelves

Written By Robin Wade

custom walnut timber shelvesCustom Walnut timber shelves

Last week we completed two low tables, refinished a dining table, and finally completed this custom walnut timber shelves unit.  This can be made to the customer or designer's specs.  Typically, the vertical pair is cut square (much like most of our tables) and the horizontal shelves left with natural edges. 

The walnut shelves are particularly stunning, with the contrasting, almost white, sapwood natural edges.

 

Custom walnut timber shelves

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
Previous

Modern organic oak slab bench
Next

sassafras - getting her feet wet