office progress

Jul 12

Friday afternoon we got caught up on some table work, and snuck in some much needed work on our office cubicle. Here we are attaching the corrugated coroplast translucent plastic to the exterior. This side wall has two layers of plastic with approximately an inch of air pocket between. That air space should provide a little more insulation. We'll see. Getting quite anxious to build the sliding doors and finishing up this project in the next week or two.

local scene

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

office progress

gulf benefit

We weren't in the blackberries!