solid walnut daybed

Written By Robin Wade

Walnut daybed

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Walnut daybed

We just completed the hand rubbed oil finish on this walnut daybed and brought it into the gallery area of the studio for some photography.  I performed just a bit of silhouette work in photoshop and here it is.  This is the first of several planned iterations of this daybed.  The next couple in line will use the same base design.  We should have plenty of time to complete a couple more, and select which will be featured in our booth in High Point.  Unfortunately, it didn't get completed in time for the upcoming Atlanta or Las Vegas markets.

Oh, if it looks like we just tucked a sheet in around the mattress on the pic on the right, that's because that's all we did.  Just wanted to show how it should look with a standard 11" thick mattress.  I don't do fabric.  Not that I'm against it really, just have my hands full with wood.

Walnut daybed

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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