Making beautiful, affordable design available to the masses was a central tenet of mid-century modernism–one that never would’ve been possible if not for the advent of a key material: plywood. That ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Plywood is cheap. That, along with its strength, is its strength, but also, ironically, its weakness. The history of ...

You can build almost anything out of wood, and you should. Nobody wanted the Mosquito. The Royal Airforce wanted bigger, heavier planes made out of metal, not wood; the American government asked ...

Welcome to today's woodturning project! In this video I'm making a vase out of plywood and some resin. The idea was to make a ...

Conversations around design often revolve around the materials used to create a certain aesthetic. Mahogany and walnut, for instance, suggest richness and elegance. Marble offers a sense of permanence ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This simple elephant marks an important moment in the history of mass-produced furniture. It was originally made from ...

A plywood design will provide the function of a traditional wheelbarrow without the risk of rust or rot. Frustrated with store-bought wheelbarrows that rust and rot in Oregon’s wet coastal climate, I ...

ATLANTA - AraucoPly is challenging cabinetmakers, woodworkers, furniture builders, and residential carpenters to showcase their professional abilities and creative designs with AraucoPly plywood ...

One of the nice features of some bent plywood chairs is the fact that they spring up and down, so they have some give when you first sit down in them. Well, Polish designer Stanislaw Ploski has taken ...

London-based architectural practice HÛT designed and built this movable gin trolley as office furniture for its new workspace. HÛT had recently moved to a studio in Shoreditch, and built the cart to ...