What fun
Wanted to share an update to the update. All four of the super discounted benches sold. These were all below our cost. Just wanted to have fun and celebrate the Holidays with our customers. Congrats to the four of you that got such a great deal.
We'll run the credit card stuff through in the morning, and announe the "winners".
But, keep in mind that we still have 6 left still at a crazy cheap price of $400. Also, everythig in stock is still on sale through Christmas. You can find the items we have in stock, dimensions and sale prices on our home page - right hand side - "IN STOCK".
Also, be sure to check the blog throughout the day - each day till Christmas for the Daily Steal (I mean Deal).
the sale - update
Just talked to Linda. She also sold the $100 bench and the $200 bench. We'll figure this out tomorrow.
But for now the $300 and $400 benches are available!
When you email your credit card info, be sure to specify your max bid - up to $500.
Whew!
I've never seen email come in at anywhere near this kind of clip before!
we are getting slammed
The first bench, the $100 one sold to Steve Murray. We have it sold lots of times over. But we just had one of these (at $100).
But as of this second, as far as I know, the second is available. Just email me @
robinwadefurniture@mac.com with credit card saying it's for the $200 one or might be safer to say your max bid (up to $500 for this sale)
Congrats Steve!
Sorry we havne't been able to answer all the phone calls.
And yes, shipping is additional.
This is fun!
robin
ShawLiving Atlanta and Las Vegas Showroom furniture editions
ShawLiving Atlanta and Las Vegas Showroom furniture editions
We've been supplying the ShawLiving Showrooms for each market for a year or so now. And, in preparation for the upcoming shows, Kevin Corrao, their showroom designer, stopped by today. We confirmed a wonderful new organic table along with a couple more benches for the Las Vegas showroom, and loaded his car up with two more benches (the heavy sassafras and walnut) for their Atlanta 12,000 sq. foot showroom. The benches will be replacing one of the focal points of the previous Atlanta showroom, the cracked, stitched walnut bench, which will be moving to their New York showroom.
ShawLiving Atlanta and Las Vegas Showroom furniture editions
Wake up sleepy head! We have a Daily Deal Today!
Wake up sleepy head! We have a Daily Deal Today!
Below is the content of one of the articles in todays special holiday edition of the monoLOG. If you aren't receiving our monthly newsletter - the monoLOG, you can sign up from our home page (top right side - "sign up here").
Wake up sleepy head! Let's see who's had their coffee this morning! Today's Monday, December 12, Daily Deal is our
Solid Walnut 40" bench, regularly $900. We made ten of these just for this sale so that we could offer you an amazing deal! Today, the first bench sold will be priced at $100, the second at $200, the third at $300, and the fourth at $400. The remaining six 40" Solid Walnut benches will be sold for $500 each (remember they are normally $900!).
Just like most of our furniture, this little bench is crafted of solid, locally harvested wood. We started with the walnut log, "flitch cut" it into slabs, debark the edges with a draw knife, and stack it to dry for a few years. Once the lumber is air dry, then kiln dryed, we design each piece into a functional work of art. Each one has a hand rubbed oil finish—no stain. All the amazing colors of the bench are the natural colors of the walnut tree. Oh, and one more thing you might notice: They are exhibiting "honest" fabricating techniques. Because of the substantial weight of the legs, we use massive 6-inch-long timberframe screws to attach them. And, as we've been doing lately, we aren't hiding these beautiful screws. They are there, we are proud of them, and we aren't going to try and keep them under wraps. Be sure to let us know what you think.
Wake up sleepy head! We have a Daily Deal Today!
Friday's Daily Deal SOLD THURSDAY
Friday's Daily Deal SOLD THURSDAY
Oops, planning our Holiday sale, it didn't occur that we'd get almost immediate response and orders. To begin with, sorry about Selling the Friday's Deal on Thursday. We all just got excited and in the spirit, and it just happened.
That shouldn't happen again, because I'll try to make a point of not announcing the Daily Deal until "the day", ok. But also, keep in mind that like most of our furniture, these are one of a kind, and we only have one. So, just to clarify, the Daily Deal is for only one table. So, if you want to take advantage of it, you'll need to move faster than I am this morning.
One more thing; To make up for the mix-up yesterday, we are going to announce a second Daily Deal today. It'll be sometime today, and announced right here. So, just check back often.
Friday's Daily Deal SOLD THURSDAY
No gifts for Alabama teacher's this year
No gifts for Alabama teacher's this year
It seems that we (Alabama) is writing these jokes for late night comededy. With any luck the immigration law will drift away. Today's morning news is that Alabama teacher's won't be allowed to accept Holiday gifts this year. -- I used to wonder why Alabama got such a bad wrap around the world. It's becoming more and more clear that we deserve every bit of it.
No gifts for Alabama teacher's this year
Our sale was just published
Our sale was just published
We just published the our sale in our monoLOG monthly newsletter, and have already sold our first Daily Deal - Mattie low table. Paul Apostolou, and architect in Pittsburg called within minutes/seconds of announcing the sale. Paul was sitting in an airport, read our newsletter on his cell phone, and must have instantly called to place the order. Congratulations Paul. I believe you just purchesed the least expensive RWF piece in history. And it's a beauty!
Our sale was just published
A mind blowing tour of HudsonAlpha Friday
A mind blowing tour of HudsonAlpha Friday
Linda and I were treated to a mind bloging tour of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville Friday. I knew almost nothing about the institute other than lots of very smart folks doing really good work in a really beautiful modern buildings "over there". Well, I was right I guess, but my understanding needed only to be magnified/multiplied significantly.
Holly Ralston, HudsonAlpha's Communications Director tried her best to explain what the heck's going on over there. Here's a summary:
1) Beautiful modern, architecture quite conducive to creative "thinking" and "doing"
2) It's full of folks doing amazing work. I understand almost nothing about it. But I heard words like genomes, aneuploidy, dna - ok, that's about all I retained here. And that's because of;
3) The amazing good these guys are doing. They are doing research to - well - make the world a better place. Cancer research, alternate fuel research! Wow. I really had no idea this was going on right down the road in Linda's hometown of
A mind blowing tour of HudsonAlpha Friday
oak & walnut desk for Shaw's Las Vegas Showroom
oak & walnut desk for Shaw's Las Vegas Showroom
This oak and walnut desk / table will be showcased in ShawLiving's Las Vegas Showroom in January. It's almost ready for our hand rubbed oil finish. We'll be sure to take pics before it gets out of here.
oak & walnut desk for Shaw's Las Vegas Showroom
cracked walnut bench
cracked walnut bench
cracked walnut bench
Saturday's photoshoot
Saturday's photoshoot
Kyle Buchanan and his lovely family dropped by Saturday to talk furniture. Unfortunately, all I wanted to do was a photoshoot of his beautiful daughter.
Kyle, stop back by, I promise to talk furniture next time!
Saturday's photoshoot
Richard Branson says screw Business as usual
Richard Branson says screw Business as usual
Wonderful to see evidence that you can mix business and pleasure and good and succeed at all three.
I look forward to learning more from Richard and others.
Richard Branson says screw Business as usual
low tables in stock - finally!!
low tables in stock - finally!!
Gosh, I'm not sure that I have an answer to why this took so long. Just didn't have it at the top of my priority list I guess. Well, over the last couple of weeks, we've been lugging all our tables around, separating by type, and photographing them all. The really wonderful improvement in the photography area of the project, is that I didn't have to take each photo into Photoshop for silhouetting. Just got the lighting right, placed each table on a white backdrop, inhanced most images in Iphoto, and here we go. Next will be dimensions, pricing and a password protected page for wholesale pricing.
low tables in stock - finally!!
cloudForce 2011 New York - began two minutes ago
cloudForce 2011 New York - began two minutes ago
How does a tiny, southern, sustainable, American made, furniture maker build a national brand in this economy? It has a lot to do with technology. And I'm really curious about today's announcements at CloudForce New York. The improvements and announcements of new products and integrations of amazing products benefiting small business today is quite amazing. Small business is a wonderful place to be today. -- Ok, it's not all perfect - but there is soooo much that is.
cloudForce 2011 New York - began two minutes ago
I had forgotten about this walnut lumber fire
I had forgotten about this walnut lumber fire
Originally, I was working with these very cool Amish guys up in Ethridge Tennessee. They began doing the sawmill work. Then it progressed to debarking the lumber with draw knives, and eventually tried to teach them to build modern furniture. Well, I this is a reasonable example of this "Amish connection" not working.
I remember driving up to the Amish sawmill, pulling up and seeing stacks of my lumber near a big fire pit. I walked closer to see that a lot of the lumber was smoldering, with black totally charred evidence throughout the stack of lumber.
But the really cool thing is, now years later with it all dry and out of the kiln, that I'm hoping that the "evidence" of the history of this lumber - fire and all - might just make it to a few finished pieces. Within the next few weeks, I'm hoping to work on a few of these "charred" walnut slabs to see just what becomes of them.
I had forgotten about this walnut lumber fire
big maple tree losing it's leaves
big maple tree losing it's leaves
I love this big maple tree that sits in our front yard. And every Fall, I fall for it all over again. Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful big maple tree's brillant leaf fall each - fall??
big maple tree losing it's leaves
walnut bench sale?
walnut bench sale
There have been rumors around here of a very big walnut bench sale. I can't confirm anything (this month), but I did take this pic last week, and there were quite a few walnut benches in process - and it doesn't look like they are sold. If what I've been hearing about the prices is true, they won't be lasting long. If you are interested might want to check back in sometime around December 1??
walnut bench sale
I finally made the Sioux City Journal
I finally made the Sioux City Journal
Not exactly sure just how this happened, but I finally made the Sioux City Journal!!! Our recent showing at the High Point Market, was taxing (in various was) to say the least. Made lots of new friends and contacts, and through it all, a few reporters, bloggers, HGTV folks, among others stopped by. Some asked questions, took notes, and lots took pics.
I'm thinking this might have come from a couple of gals from NY that have been on the Furniture Market scene for some time. Haven't had a chance to go through all the cards to confirm names/etc. But it looks like this might have made the AP/or ?? similar circuit (I'm kinda behind on all this media stuff).
But we certainly appreciate this and all press we can get. Thank you to ???
I finally made the Sioux City Journal
one table for Phil Campbell
one table for Phil Campbell
I know this doesn't look like much, but with a little time and care, I'm got big plans for these two stacks of wood? Our neighboring community of Phil Campbell was devastated by the tornadoes of the Spring. I've joined the amazing "I'm with Phil" campaign in an effort to do what I think I do best - to help. And I've committed to making and donating a table to this worthwhile cause.
This was a tree that was still standing after the tornado. It was right outside the door of the city hall. It was standing, but after the tornado, it didn't have a single limb, and certainly wouldn't have been able to survive.
The Oprah network sent a film crew and a couple of producers down to Phil Campbell to interview (several of the "Phil's) along with the Mayor and some of the remaining residents of the city.
I believe it is scheduled to air on February. Let's hope so. Although the Phil's have raised enough money for one Habitat for Humanity home for the city, I think that leaves around 99 more to do. Whew. Oprah seems to do a lot of miracles, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed about one more.
Oh, back to the table. This may look like a lot of lumber. But there are maybe only a couple of slabs intact. (There had been a lot of stress damage to the tree.) But the great thing is that, for this effort, we only need one table anyway. In the small stack, really impossible to see in this pic, there are some amazingly interesting organic pieces that, somehow, may find a second life as a table for good in a year or so.
Brooklyn Phil is reminding me to video document the progress of the table making effort. We've got some video of the milling of the lumber. And I plan to get more footage as we proceed.