A Slab of Time - a timber slab dining table

Written By Robin Wade

A Slab of Time - a timber slab dining table

lisa martin, Greenville Texas​


One day a squall
With vengeance blew
Swift carnival
Within his view
With mythic strength
Toppled an oak
And dropped its length
As rumbling broke
The anxious skies
Eight years the tree
Napped on its flank
Eternity
And sun it drank
Its marbled grains
And girdled rings
Were magically stained
Recording things
For mankind’s eyes
Recalling the storms
With primitive tools
The artisan performs
The golden rule
To honor the tree
As he desires
His own life to be
When he expires
One day resurrected
Through love reborn
Through Carpenter’s toil
Reclaimed, not forlorn,
Anointed with oil
Not fuel for fire
Not pulp for man’s fables
But splendor inspired
An exceptional table
A slab now perfected

A Slab of Time - a timber slab dining table​

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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