V&A exhibition charts the rise and fall of humble plywood
The social history of plywood ? as an innovator in the furniture and transport industries, and a maligned everyday material ? is explored in a new exhibition at London's V&A museum, which opens this weekend.
Curated by Elizabeth Bisley and Christopher Wilk, Plywood: Material of the Modern World provides a potted history of plywood through over 120 objects, ranging from the body of a plane to door handles.
Starting in the 1850s and progressing to present day, the exhibition acts as a timeline of the material's development and reputation.
"The exhibition offers a history of technology, it offers a history of the uses of plywood, but also a history of a way a public perception and fluctuating reputation of a material can actually affect how it's used," said Wilk at a press preview of the exhibition. "People have forgotten the remarkable way that plywood was used."
"The use of plywood, just like the use of other materials, is not just a matter of science and technology," added Wilk.
"The decision to abandon wood in aircraft really in total was revived by de Havilland, the designer of the remarkable Mosquito ? the highest flying, fastest aircraft in the second world war ? because military leaders in Britain, Germany and the United States decided that metal was a material that fit their view of their airforces as future-looking," he said.
The show is divided into sections by three significant milestones in the production of ...
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