studio / gallery / office / photo room drawing

Written By Robin Wade

Here's a drawing of the studio remodel we are working on.  The back area will be my and Linda's shared office.  It will have two six foot sliding doors.  Planning to make them from translucent corrugated plastic and walnut.  The barn door hardware is ordered from Tractor Supply.  During my last remodel, I learned to use the barn door rail system with wheels made of rubber.  The metal wheels in our closet at home sounds like a massive thunder storm every time we open the door.

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.
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