Sunday's tour of the Rosenbaum - Frank Lloyd Wright home

Written By Robin Wade

Sunday's tour of the Rosenbaum - Frank Lloyd Wright home

Our new friends, Beth and Frank Young, and family drove up from Birmingham for a wonderful visit, lunch, and a tour of the studio.  (Beth is an amazing, quite published conservation photographer who's work is mezmerrizing).  Frank was interested in seeing our local Frank Lloyd Wright home, and we were so fortunate that it was open.  Since I haven't seen it in a few years, I was more than game.

Well, I'm still floored by it all. It must be true that We can't appreciate what is right in front of us if we are looking off into the distance.  Well, can say that I now see the light.  And what a wonderful gem of a light it is.

The Rosenbaum Home must have just been too accessable.  Mom and Stanley Rosenbaum were friends and worked together in the English Department at UNA (I guess it was Florence State Teacher's College at the time).  My best friend growing up lived right down the street.  And I must have walked/biked/loitered past it hundreds of times as a kid.  And from time to time, there'd be parties there, or we'd drop by (with parents) on occasion.

Sunday's tour of the Rosenbaum - Frank Lloyd Wright home

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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