Does Form Really Follow Function

Written By Robin Wade

does form really follow functionAnother new friend, Ben Manning wrote an amazing piece about - well - how deep do you want to go?  Primarily focuses on creativity, and just where and how it's sourced.  This piece is so well thought out, and understood by the writer that reading it is embarrassingly emotional for me.  It delves deep if you let it, into wonderful places of understanding.

If you are an architect, an artist or designer you might really appreciate this one.  If this side of your brain (I never can remember which) isn't your cup of tea, you won't be alone their either.

Thank you Ben, and welcome aboard.

 

Here's the link to the article:  Does Form Really Follow Function

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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