oak & walnut root coffee table

Written By Robin Wade

oak & walnut root coffee tableoak & walnut root coffee table

The oak root came from an ole friend's farm a couple of years ago. To see a pic of us slabbing the walnut root back in Feb '09, click here.  I'm haven't yet found the pics of the day we Louis Bartmess invited us out to his farm and fished the big old root off of his property and onto the trailer. 

When I was a kid, when I wasn't in the creek, or in school, I was on the tennis courts.  "Mr. Bartmess" was also a regular, and it was really fun to have more fun with him on this latest venture.

oak & walnut root coffee table

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

walnut scraps dining table
Next

Modern organic oak slab bench