Editor’s Letter
Point of origin The ‘river table’ is arguably the biggest woodworking trend of our generation. In simple terms, you take two slabs of live-edged timber and create an infill between them. Social media is awash with videos of brightly coloured resin pours as well as furniture where glass has been cut to fit curves. But once an idea or a design becomes popular, its point of origin may be lost – all of sudden that design becomes ‘generic’ and supposedly common property. When US furniture designer maker Greg Klassen decided to trademark his River Table design it became a hot button topic. He was decried for it, and yet how should designers and artists safeguard their intellectual property? Is it even possible in a digital world fuelled by downloads and ‘shares’? ‘For a…
