The Wade House Bowl
$175
Drawn, not photographed.
One of a kind, so this picture shows the type rather than the exact piece. Yours is measured and listed individually before it ships.
The Wade House Bowl
A hand-turned, natural-edge walnut bowl by a Wisconsin woodturner we met at a craft fair: the rim is the outside of the log, bark and all. The walnut came from a tree that fell on the Wade House property in Greenbush. There is exactly one of these.
Walnut, turned by hand, with the tree's bark left on the rim. The finish is confirmed with the maker and named here before this goes on sale. Hand wash and towel dry; never the dishwasher or a soak. The bark rim is decoration: keep water off it and lift the bowl by its body.
Measured on this bowl, across both ways and tall, and listed here before it goes on sale. The bark and grain are this tree's.
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The Story
We met him at a craft fair on the Wade House grounds, the same afternoon we met the soap maker. The wood he turns comes from trees that fall on that same property, which meant the bowl on his table and the ground under our feet had, until recently, been the same tree.
He keeps the bark. Bark only holds on wood cut while the tree is dormant, and even then it can let go as the bowl dries, which is why most turners take the rim down to smooth wood. He left it on. The result looks less like tableware and more like a cross-section of the actual tree, which is exactly what it is.
There is one of these. When it sells, the listing retires, the way one-offs do here.
