Stopped back by Frank's for needed inspiration

Written By Robin Wade

Stopped back by Frank Lloyd Wright home for needed inspiration      

We've been designing/building three pieces for the 2012 New American Home showhouse in Winter Park Florida.  The coffee table is complete and looking great.  The top to the dining table is quite unique and complete as well.  I thought I had the legs all ready, that is until I placed them under the table.  They looked great, but just a little too organic for this modern home. 

So, I stopped back by the beautiful Frank Lloyd Wright/Rosenbaum museum home just down the street for a little more inspiration for this project.  And I think it did the trick. 

In addition to finding a new direction for the legs of the dining table, I also came away with just how much of a wooden boat this beautiful example of Unisonian design ebbs (and also flows).  Low ceilings, narrow hallways, narrow doors, and small rooms all make it seem quite boaty.  But a wonderful boaty at that.

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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