UNA's Sculpture class Furniture critique

Written By Robin Wade

I've enjoyed working with the newest of Chiong Chen's hires in the art department this year.  Aaron Tennessee Benson is quite amazing, talented, immersed.  Aaron's sculpture/certamics students used some of our cut-offs for the assignment of making a piece of functional furniture.  Intriguing to see just what the students came up with, their description of their objectives, where they hit and missed, then Aaron's critique. 

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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