no Faith, Martina or Gwinneth, but . . .

Written By Robin Wade

I think every exhibitor (of the 150 up here) but me saw Faith, Gwinneth and Martina strolling the isles yesterday.  Gwinneth's doing a movie here, working on a singing career, staying with Faith and Tim blah blah blah.  But Ryan Gainey (and his perky entourage) hung out for a while with us last night at the booth.  He's one of the featured speakers here at the show, and invited us to do a showing in Atlanta this Spring.  Ryan, if you are serious, I'm game.

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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