working out the leg detail for the 2012 New American Dining Table

Written By Robin Wade

working out the leg detail for the 2012 New American Dining Tableworking out the leg detail for the 2012 New American Dining Table

Gosh, I've my ideas have been across the galaxy and back with the design of the dining table for the 2012 New American Home that will be open for all to see in February. I think the second visit to the Rosenbaum/Frank Lloyd Wright home helped me zero in on what I believe will be close to the final iteration of the leg detail.

The entire project's beautiful new modern aesthetic, has inspired a new direction for this Alabama furniture maker.  Although continuing to use locally sourced, sustainable, organic timber, these furniture designs clearly lean more modern than is typical around this studio. 

With upcoming deadlines for photo shoots, etc, we are going to have to zero in on something, and get going soon.  Might just have something that's moved out of this digitial 3d and into an actual real 3d dining table (the kind that you can actually sit down to with friends and enjoy a meal).

working out the leg detail for the 2012 New American Dining Table

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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