Church Shade tree - now award winning low table
Hand-crafted from and named for a 220-year-old oak tree in a local church yard, the St. Luke’s low table (8’x 52”x 17”) features what Robin calls, “magical organic shaping” that occurs dramatically with oak. While each St. Luke’s low table is an original, the large tree supplied a number of slabs for crafting similar pieces. This table will be featured at the new Museum of Alabama’s opening in Montgomery, late August.
Church shade tree to table
Hand-crafted from and named for a 220-year-old oak tree in a local church yard, the St. Luke’s low table (8’x 52”x 17”) features what Robin calls, “magical organic shaping” that occurs dramatically with oak. While each St. Luke’s low table is an original, the large tree supplied a number of slabs for crafting similar pieces. This table was featured at the new Museum of Alabama’s opening in Montgomery, late August 2010.
- 1780 - An acorn sprouts
- 2006 - Tree taken down
- 2009 - Lumber air- and kiln-dried
- February 2010 - Lumber planed and ready for a second life as a piece of organic furniture
- Today - Oak wood slabs are in the process of becoming one-of-a-kind modern organic pieces under the deft hand of furniture artist Robin Wade