USGBC's Kathleen Kirkpatrick

For Edgar Posting
Written By Robin Wade
Kathleen Touring the Rosenbaum Home.

Kathleen Touring the Rosenbaum Home.

It was great to meet Kathleen - our Alabama state director of the huge USGBC.  Their nationwide green work primarily in the architecture and construction industries in US are renowned.  We are discussing a custom Shoals Creativity Tour for the summer.  Friday afternoon we toured my studio, then Saturday we hit the our other primary tour stops;  The Frank Lloyd Wright Rosenbaum House Museum, the Florence Tourism Center, the Music photo wall tour at the Marriott and more.  

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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