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Written By Robin Wade

phil campbells for phil campbell alabamaPhil Campbell Alabama

This morning, Linda and I (and the pups) took the short 40 minute drive due south to the tornado devastated town of Phil Campbell.  Today the town, took a break from survival mode, and celebrated it's 100th anniversary.   The celebration took, like the town, wasn't fancy, but it was wonderful.  Lots of laughing, children, music, marching, and a whole bunch of phil C's everywhere you looked.

What a treat it was to visit with the town and many of the citizens that survived the storm.  Among those that we visited with were Mayor Mays, to councilmen, to the girl scouts, FEMA workers, rescue squad members, along with over 20 folks named Phil Campbell that arrived from all parts of globe to help.  Quite an amazing cross section that, all with a single goal to try to help.  There was an amazing positive energy in the air - It seemed like this might have been the first time many of them have been able to slow down and take a deep breath.

I didn't realize that the Mayor had been in the furniture business throughout his life.  I'm commited to doing what I can to help.  Seems like building a table from one of the downed trees and auctioning it off for the town would be appropriate.  I'm thinking that their may be others in our industry that might also want to help.  It's going to take years to get this little town back on it's feet, if it ever is able to.  Maybe something like furnishings for phil?  If you have any thoughts, please share.

I've got a good bit of video from today's remarkable event, and hope to put it together soon.  Stay tuned.

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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