Museum furniture discussion

Sep 1

Museum furniture discussion

robin wade speaking at the Museum of Alabama grand opening Have to admit that I was more than a little nervous preparing for my 30 minute discussion to the museum and art community. I've generally been avoiding public speaking for several decades. It's the one fear that I've decided that I can get through life without overcoming.

But, by talking about a subject that I'm passionate about, once it got going, was really a piece of cake. The primary problem is that I don't think I got half way through the talk. Many more slides were not shown. Really fun to have broken through this little barrier. And, I'm actually looking forward to trying my hand at it again.

Museum furniture discussion

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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Museum furniture discussion

Museum furniture discussion

Museum furniture discussion

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