Videographer Andrew Reed stopped by

Written By Robin Wade

  Videographer Andrew Reed stopped by this morning 

Videographer Andrew Reed stopped by

Andrew Reed, the Phil Campbell resident thats making a movie about the I'm with Phil fund raising campaign, stopped by this morning to document the next step in the table making process.  One of his first questions was "what makes me different than other furniture makers".  Since I don't really know much about how "normal" furniture is made, I really didn't have a good answer for him.  But I think, as we starting carting this big log around from the trailer to the sawmill, he kinda started figuring it out on his own.

He'll be back by Thursday morning to get a bit more.  Relishing in traversing through life from back to front as possible, I'm going to try to remember to interview him, and blog his plans and dreams for his movie. Side note;  Not sure why, but it seems that almost every photographer or videographer I meet, seems so much more confident, better looking, younger, and better speaker than me (the interviewee). 

Videographer Andrew Reed stopped by

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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