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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

For a long time, Ken Landauer made furniture for the 1 percent: one-of-a-kind, bespoke pieces with price tags to match. Then Occupy Wall Street happened, and the Brooklyn-based artist and woodworker ...

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 It was originally made from ...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 ...

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 ...

Now anyone can do the work to take ownership of their neighborhood. All it takes is effort and this kit from the Better Block Project. On a single weekend in 2010, a group of neighbors went to a ...

During the George Floyd marches last year, businesses boarded up. This year, hundreds of those boards will be displayed in exhibitions in Minneapolis, New York and Chicago. Tanda Francis in her studio ...