The New American Home 2012

Written by Robin Wade

The new American Home 2012The New American Home 2012

I can't wait to see Phil Kean's New American Home in Winter Park during the International Bulder's Show in February.  Love his updated take on mid century masterpieces from some of the modern greats.

Phil dropped by the studio a month or two ago, and seemed to totally get what I was doing with modern natural, sustainable furniture.  It was great to get such positive feed back from someone of his stature in Architecture.

Ok, so here's today's big news.  We will be providing at least one piece of furniture in this beautiful modern sustainable home!  This is going to be fun.

The New American Home 2012

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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