Remembering Centennial Park

Written By Robin Wade

As I was walking from the MARTA station, I had a Centennial Park flashback of sorts.  At 1:20 a.m July 27, 1996, Linda and I were sleeping soundly after a wonderful day visiting with our friends from Guatamala who joined us to share in the Olympic spectacle.  Unfortunately, our friends, with their children were still in Centennial Park during the bombing.  Fortunately, Guillermo, Ingrid and their family were fine, but two were killed and 111 were injured.  Each morning, on the way to this amazing woodworking show (IWF) that's only held every two years in Atlanta, I've been taking MARTA to the GWCC stop, and walking thru Centennial Park to the World Congress Center - offering plenty of non woodworking priorities to ponder each morning.

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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