Aaron Bailey founded the Edge Gallery in 2010. The gallery features his handcrafted furniture, made from sustainably harvested wood and salvaged metal. Originally from Brevard, Bailey got into furniture making in high school and has been dabbling in the art ever since 1998.  He took art classes in college and then right after college began doing a lot of tree work which, he said, lead to getting a lot of interesting trees, a chainsaw mill, and milling up lumber. He started building small cabins in various locations and eventually tarted making furniture for said cabins. He always refers to his becoming a furniture maker as a “natural progression.” Bailey likes to take already existing structures and change the reality that they exist in. When asked about what inspires him, Bailey said, “Depending on the piece, most of the time the inspiration comes from the piece of wood I’m using, or the piece of metal, and, usually, I’ll just let it do either what it’s suggesting or what it can do.” This is obvious in the way his pieces always seems to curve with the grain, or the metal shows clearly what it was originally. For example, he has some very charming vintage school chairs which he has breathed new life into by keeping the metal base untouched and then trading out the plastic seat and back for smooth wooden ones. He has also cleverly transformed a set of vintage radiators into table legs. Bailey explained, “I don’t have the capability of casting iron into radiators or anything so the fact that that’s already been done for me is a perk - I get to play with it.” Bailey tries to preserve the effort that has already been taken to create things like radiators and school chairs. You can see more of Bailey’s work here.