The fork in the road - and I took it

Written By Robin Wade

fork in the roadHave you ever been on vacation, enjoying yourself immensely, but taken a wrong turn?  A wrong, totally unplanned, unintended direction, totally off the very exacting gps coordinates (or printed itenerary from  Google Maps) that you had all so perfectly laid out?

But, once you got over your original panic and brief sense of failure, you look around and find a magical little spot on this earth that you may have never ever known about.  Well, a couple of months ago, another fork (in our ever beautifully winding road) presented itself, and we've been immersed in the new direction ever since.

So glad you have joined us for at least a bit of the ride so far.  But stay tuned, buckle up, you will never guess what's waiting for us - just down the road a piece.

The fork in the road - and I took it

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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