Hardwood Slab Furniture

by Lindsey Thomas

​Hardwood Slab Furniture

​Hardwood Slab Furniture

Last week at Robin Wade Furniture is all about slab furniture—one of Robin's specialties! Slab furniture typically focuses on the wood's natural shape and beauty, much like this coffee table made by Robin. Slab furniture has an earthy, rustic appeal to it that works in a variety of styles and rooms; it easily fits into the most modern of homes, but also in the most traditional because of its innate beauty. Usually, slab furniture are pieces like dining and coffee tables, but if one searches around, they can also find chairs and benches made out of slabs. Here at Robin Wade, tables are the specialty, and the shown coffee table, in my opinion, is one of Robin's best pieces. This particular coffee table is quite large, thick, and sturdy. This coffee table is warm, it's friendly, it's even stylish and just a little bit off-beat. This piece is one-of-a-kind, just like all of Robin's hand-made furniture.

Hardwood Slab Furniture

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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