Michael Nichols/National Geographic Showing

Written By Robin Wade
Mike Nichols hometown visit and showing this week. 

Mike Nichols hometown visit and showing this week. 

I've been enjoying National Geographic (primarily the phototography) as long as i can remember.  Growing up, the bookshelf wall in the living room was full of decades of back issues of the beautiful bright yellow National Geo.  We thoroughly enjoyed the showing of Mike NIchols friday afternoon.  Locals have been trying to entice Michael for year's to stop back by to share some of his adventurous life with us all.   

With the launch of his new book and lecture tour the stars aligned and we finally brought this local back for a few days.  Nichols has been the Editor at Large at National Geographic since 2008. 

I look forward to attending the "Earth to Sky" lecture and book tour/book signing at Norton Auditorium this upcoming weekend. 

That's UNA's super pro photographer Shannon Wells taking a few pics of our Amy and Gina.  Barbra Broach of Kennedy Douglas Art Center taking in a  preview.  Forgot to mention that the location is the much awaited downtown market that has been under remodel for quite a while.  I really like the way they move.  Slow, but just right.  

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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