natural edge oak desk

Written By Robin Wade

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This natural edge oak desk also arrived fresh out finishing room this morning.  This one's a real beauty, flaunting nothing but natural throughout.  The

natural oak desk

beautiful natural edges of the local oak tree are clearly apparent from leg to leg.  Another - somewhat natural element is the fairly common "blue streak" down one leg.  So many of our larger oak trees spent their previous

lives shading a residence.  And, as we human types seem to have to do, metal of all sorts seems to find its way into the back yard trees.  This blue streak is a flag to our sawyers milling the logs to be careful - that there is metal close by (usually just above the metal stain). 

Just another unique, one of a kind

somewhat natural table.

38" x 58" x 30" tall

natural edge oak desk

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.
robinwadefurniture.com
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