The Palace Hotel San Francisco

Written By Robin Wade

The Palace Hotel San FranciscoThe Palace Hotel San Francisco

To say that our accommodations are unusually luxurious for this Alabama couple is an understatement.  Linda and I arrived at the Palace Hotel around 8:00 last night, and really haven't had a chance to take it all in. Wonderful to visit the grand dame clearly from another time. 

I think it's been 15 years or so since I've visited SF, and don't remember dates and details of her history.  Wondering if this hotel might have survived the late 1800's fire?  -- Will have to check it out. 

Will try to get some better pics before we check out Sunday.

The Palace Hotel San Francisco

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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