This week in the slow studio

Written By Robin Wade

We have several projects going this week.  Although nothing complete yet.

 

 

An extra large supercool oak and walnut desk in process.  One leg of the desk will be flowing grain design, useing the same slab for the leg.

The other leg will be solid walnut.  Really a duplicate of our modern walnut console table, just a little shorter.  Really a very similar design that we showed at the NAHB show home in Winter Park in Feb.

 

 

Finally getting back to this credenza for Sheena, a top notch interior designer in High Point, for a client in Sarasota.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the modern solid walnut legs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finishing the sassafras benches for Phil Campbell Alabama's city park.

 

 

 

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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