burley cherry console table just out of finishing room

Written By Robin Wade

burley cherry console table just out of finishing room

Now here's a first - at least for me.  Glad I've got a pic, because I really don't know how to describe this one.  It's a cherry console table, and in the top is the opening to a little cave.  We just used our hands, a metal brush, a little sandpaper flapper on the end of a drill, to get up and inside the little cavern to get it cleaned out.  Much like we've seem to be making lately, this one has a flowing grain leg on one side and more traditional leg on the other.

burley cherry console table just out of finishing room

 

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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