Cramer Children's Center - Florence Alabama

Written By Robin Wade

Cramer Children's CenterCramer Children's Center - Florence Alabama

The Cramer Children's Center had an enlightening open house yesterday afternoon.  Amazing how much good Randy Parker and his small organization are doing.  Housing almost 200 hundred last year alone.

It was just a year ago that the massive old oak that lived almost a century shading this location, was downed by the killer tornadoes that ravaged the country.  I'm happy to report that slabs from this tree are cut and have begun their slow air drying process.  With time, I'm looking forward to working to building a beautiful piece of furniture from this tree, and have promised to donate it to the center - in an effort raise funds and awareness. 

Cramer Children's Center - Florence Alabama

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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