Walnut Oil

Aug 7

Walnut Oil

walnut tree leaf - cypress creek, alabama

Robin Wade furniture pieces have always exhibited the beauty of walnut wood. So when Robin asked us to honor this amazing tree, we made sure to celebrate every bit of it--from leaf buds to root tips. Walnuts have become so ubiquitous in our diets that we barely
give a thought about the amazing plants that they are. But I got the opportunity to discover a spectacular and often overlooked component of walnuts: their oil. Walnut oil is uniquely versatile among plant oils, not only because it’s an ancestral part of human diet, but its role in our lives spans such distance in time and geography. So I welcome you to take a look at my article about Walnut Oil in our newly constructed page dedicated just to the Walnut--you might be surprised.

Best
wishes,
--Nancy

Walnut Oil

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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Walnut Oil

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