What is a table-river?

Those who pay great attention to the decor of the room, as a rule, use the most non-standard and original ways of decorating rooms. Serial store furniture does not meet the needs of people with creative thinking, so the owners of apartments who want their housing to be unique, are often looking for unique design items of their kind.

Wooden furniture, created by modern technology, no doubt, will surprise guests. These unusual, but at the same time beautiful things include a table called "glass river". What is a table-river, few know, and it is this fact that makes these pieces of furniture so special.

This item received an unusual name due to an insert made of glass or filled with epoxy resin in the center of the tabletop. Visually, the table resembles a mountain gorge, in the hollow of which a river flows.It turns out incredibly beautiful effect that instantly conquers the hearts of all who first see the masterpiece creation.

In the classic version of the table-river is weighty unit, created from natural wood with glass inset in the center. Glass can be colored or transparent. Sometimes the glass insert is replaced with a mirror. The highlight of the product - insert a small width with jagged edges.

Practically in every house you can see a coffee table or a writing table, each one has an interesting design, the main function of which is to “liven up” living space. But no table can be compared with an amazing table made from karagach (a type of elm) or from a slab (cut of a tree trunk, the edges of which in the finished product remain untouched) with built-in blue ponds.

The first creator of the amazing product was the furniture designer. Greg Klassen (USA). The material for his creation was the waste of sawmills and construction sites, wood with various damages, which could not be used due to a serious defect in the furniture industry. In the hands of a skilled wizard, all the seemingly inconspicuous elements that they wanted to get rid of were quickly turned into a real treasure.

At first, the tables were rather uncomplicated, but when Greg made a complex glass pattern in wood, ideally imitating the incorrigible natural lack of wood, the man received the same voluminous rivers with ornate banks and crystal clear waters. Each table created by Greg is a unique and original piece, and there is no second such in the world.

Of course, the designer thing is not cheap. But due to the fact that the master never hid the technique of producing original furniture items, table-river became the common property. If desired, each person can do the original thing.

Original riverbed tables come in a wide variety of configurations: rectangular, square, oval, round, made from glued wood or from a whole trunk.

The core, if the table is made of the trunk, is carefully removed and “installed” in the resulting opening a blue glass that follows the contour of the unevenness of the trunk.

The table-river is a new trend in the world of furniture production, and it is called Live edge. Products created in this direction, give a sense of intimacy with nature, therefore, among people living in the modern realities of megacities, they are very popular. Many designers and lovers of unusual interiors are delighted with tables that imitate a piece of wildlife.

As mentioned earlier, for the manufacture of an unusual table is often used wood with various flaws that are considered a marriage in industrial production, but skilled craftsmen with experience and unlimited imagination can turn flaws into advantages.

In order to preserve all the natural features of a natural material in an unchanged form, each trunk, slab or saw cut is carefully processed by hand with the help of a manual woodworking machine - the Fraser. Then the core is gently removed, and in its place is embedded blue or clear glass, repeating the contour of all the irregularities of the tree trunk. The end result is a true deep-water lake.

There are several options for the execution of the table with the river:

• Glass fits into the groove, which is pre-cut under the glass insert.Fastening produce transparent glue.
• The glass is inserted into the groove that has formed naturally.

The insert in the barrel is made of epoxy. Learn more about how to make your own table-river, you will learn from the following video.

All furniture items made in the style of Live edge, almost perfect. Disadvantages can only be if the table was made with technological violations. That is, the cons belong not to the product, but to its manufacturer.

Especially difficult to work with resin. During the production process, air bubbles may appear (poorly made fill), which are unacceptable in the finished product, this is considered a marriage. But unscrupulous performers may try to hide this fact.

The second drawback is the inability to correct the error. The fabrication of a river table using epoxy resin occurs in several stages. First, the first layer of thickener is poured, additional decorative drawings are made on the resin, then all the artwork is filled with the second layer, and if something goes wrong, it is impossible to correct the frozen resin that was mistaken.This moment significantly affects the pricing policy, therefore, epoxy resin products are very expensive. Every wrong step is spoiled stuff.

Transparency does not tolerate any errors. For this reason, tables with imitation of the flow of water are created in conditions of absolute purity.

The table, the table top of which is filled with liquid glass, epoxy, treated and decorated with metal, phosphorus or another original method is a new approach to the production of exclusive interior items. A dozen years ago no one could even talk about such methods of processing timber, and most importantly, suppose that, from the raw material that was defective, at first glance, there could be amazing furniture that would decorate any room.

Original tables made from materials of natural origin can make "Revolution" in the interior. Created from solid wood and glass, polymer or resin, table-rivers create the illusion of being in a forest, a medieval castle, somewhere far from modern life.

Coffee and coffee tables from the slabs, rolling table - all this is a real find for interior designers. Such products will fit perfectly in style. Country, Provence, Loft, - everywhere where natural texture is necessary and appropriate.

A special place in the list of interesting ideas took tables from hemp. Processed or intact, filled with polymer, resin, with an insert of transparent, white glass or colored, each stump is a work of art, an object created by nature and brought to perfection by human hands. Such a creation must certainly stand in the center of the room so that it can be observed from different parts of the room.

It doesn't matter what materials were used during the production of the table-river and how it turned out as a result, wooden tables are always popular. Some of them are more functional, but all Live edge creations are incredibly beautiful and elegant.