Inlaid Chipboard, 1962

A portable router has two handles to guide the instrument, as well as a rotating spindle containing the cutting tool.

The machine is very flexible. This flexibility enables the operator to use it almost as he would a pencil.

Having cut the pattern into the surface, the cut lines are filled with brilliantly pigmented epoxy resin, and the entire surface is then sanded flat and polished.

This gives a very tough and, in fact, almost indestructible surface, ideal for Community Centres which were expected to suffer some damage from, to say the least, robust use.