inside the slow studio

Apr 5

We've got lots going around here. New stuff, new people, new designs, and thank goodness for plenty of new cups of coffee.

Lot's of preparing for the upcoming High Point Market. Press Releases. Marketing books and handouts. New pieces to complete and show off.

This morning I've got to complete my first snapfish hardbound book. It'll have the standard 20 page layout. And they have a full bleed image capability. I think this will be a wonderful marketing addition in a venue where we can only show a few of our pieces. This very professional, hard bound 8.5" x 11" photobook should help convey the feel of pieceswe've made previously.

For now, all I've got are few images of what's we've been up to the last couple of weeks.

Quite soon, I'll be letting the cat out of the bag about what's been taking so much of my time lately, and possibly a new waypoint on our fulfilled, rewarding voyage.

inside the slow studio

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

inside the slow studio

inside the slow studio

inside the slow studio

Eating Alabama

Being an environmentalist sometimes gets a bad rap