Our Process

Robin Wade Furniture would obviously make a stunning addition to your home or design project. However, there are other economic and environmentally conscious reasons to choose a walnut dining table, cherry bench, or other organic furniture piece from this southern wood artist.

The Robin Wade production process is extremely environmentally sensitive. Each piece of Robin Wade furniture begins as a hardwood tree not far from the RWF Slow Studio in Florence, Alabama. Wade is extremely conscious of sourcing every piece of wood used to build his furniture locally. In addition, trees are not taken down just for the sake of building furniture.

Not only is the wood used to build RWF pieces local, but the product itself is 100% made in Alabama at the RWF Slow Studio. In fact, each piece is made by hand, utilizing age-old wood working skills and tools alongside modern tools. To say this process takes time is an understatement - in fact, it takes years. Once a downed log is located, it is flitch-cut into organic edge lumber, retaining the sapwood. The bark is then removed by hand with a drawknife. Once the lumber has been prepped by hand, it is stacked to naturally air dry (this is where the years come in), and finally put into a kiln for the final cure.

After the wood is dry, wood artist Robin Wade begins to work his magic. He and his studio craftsmen create one-of-a-kind furniture pieces, works of art that accentuate the grain, the shape, and the beautiful imperfections that make each piece of wood uniquely gorgeous. Each piece is solid wood, finished with a hand-applied oil, and celebrates Mother Nature’s unique creations. These breathtaking works of art—a timber table, a walnut bench—are heirloom pieces, not disposable mass-market items available at big-box retailers or big-name furniture stores.

With Robin Wade Furniture, you are buying a real, 100% natural product—something created in nature and made into functional furnishings by wood artist Robin Wade. When you purchase a Robin Wade Furniture piece, there is no veneer to mask inferior products, no stain to hide a wood’s natural grain or color, no clear cutting of foreign or domestic forests, no importing to pollute the earth’s waters, no long-distance trucking to pollute our air.

Enjoy perusing Robin Wade Furniture’s sustainable, one-of-a-kind, handmade pieces of art pictured here on our website. We hope you will appreciate the natural beauty found here. Feel free to visit our gallery to see, touch, and feel the pieces, and consider bringing a little piece of Mother Nature’s bounty into your home.