History of Industrial Design Week 9 Part 1: Plywood!

[@Lantertronics]

I never expected to say "I'm riveted about the history of plywood," yet here I am, riveted about the history of plywood.

[@krissberzkalns5308]

Thank you Matthew for sharing insight into industrial design. One of the best and most insightful series of industrial design on KZbin in my opinion. No marketing agenda, just great design history! :)

[@bycarolinakobayashi]

Tacos vs potato chip is the best metaphor, and i wouldn't change a thing. It's hilarious and memorable!

[@katrussell6819]

These are good videos for non-experts who just know what they like when they see it.

[@shannonmassey2851]

Matthew, thank you for uploading these lectures for the public. As a non-design professional who is working to appreciate and understand the history of design, your lectures are a godsend. From talking to the importance of re-interpreting the narratives we've been given in the first lecture to emphasizing the pace of global innovation in this video, your content is engaging, interpretable, and worldly. John Ruskin has a passage that eloquently speaks to my feelings on this course, “To be taught to read-what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak-but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think-nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.” Cheers from Chicago and continue helping people to see the beauty and influence around them!

[@davidzacher8]

" Form is ornament" such a good quote - so concise and insightful... Thank you for these, I can not tell you how nice it is to have some Matt Bird back in my life!

[@eleonoramassaccesi6374]

I love those lessons , I will listen all of them , I am an architect but no one told me in 30 years so many details of ID

[@samslam2052]

Thank you so much for posting this and the rest of your lectures. Wonderful!

[@ainenidunaigh2370]

absolutely brilliant. I’ve watched the whole series. Thank you so very much. Fascinating about Art Deco.

[@LadyModiva]

I'm hooked to your lectures. I love especially the unedited Art Deco. Thanks for including the bloopers here!

[@cristinakaminski8998]

Your videos are much more interesting than Netflix, which, by the way, I have cancelled that subscription and now am subscribing to your channel.👍

[@lucyward7598]

Fabulous plywood lecture Matthew Bird, enjoyed every last nugget of it 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🥳

[@alexmckenna1171]

A fantastic series. I'm learning so much..

[@MrJwhdz1]

Who knew the history of plywood could be so fascinating..and that bit at the end 🤣🤣🤣

[@derekm319]

These lectures are really excellent Matthew! Thank you for sharing.

[@spaguettoltd.7933]

The Dreyfuss Hudson locomotives got me into Art Deco stuff. What a great video!!!

[@DigitalMastery]

This is EXACTLY the kind of stuff my brain loves. Thank you for making it available to the general public. I'd love to see a tour of your office or home... wherever you were recording from... I see many items that I own and many more I'd like to know about.

[@hedbox83]

Sorry to hear about the petty criticisms. Fantastic video! Subscribed, thank you very much.

[@jamesboekbinder3967]

Beautifully crafted and narrated, including the stubborn inserts and outtakes at the end. It's great to have lectures like this as an intro to work you can explore more deeply. Thanks so much!

[@agroboy0072]

In Brazil in 2011 the school chairs and tables were all made of plywood. They were very fragile, if they lasted 1 year of use it was a lot. They started to peel at the ends leaving small pieces, sometimes we spent years studying in broken chairs or missing pieces of wood, a totally unpleasant experience. Exposure to sweat and the humid and hot tropical climate favored the soaking of this material and consequently rapid wear. Regarding the aesthetics, they were pleasant and good-looking furniture, but the conversation changes when the subject is durability and rigidity. I don't want to disfavor the advances of the time over plywood, but when it comes to the present day, I realize that things haven't changed much. At this exact moment on my work table (In plywood) I notice that one of the corners is already completely swollen and crumbled. :D

[@michakowalczuk5571]

Great lecture with huge amount of cool knowledge. Thanks man! Greetings from Poland :)

[@denisbrunstein5183]

Thanks for the amazing lecture!

[@drzfinezt180]

“Form is ornament”. Very true indeed sir! Like the cabriole legs on a Rococo fateuil.

[@beseggg]

that's a pity you haven't mentioned tiny bit more of hans wegner :(

[@HistoryofID]

I agree!!!!!! Because his work didn't really explore or test plywood he didn't fit here, so I put him in a whole separate talk on Danish design. It this were more focused on furniture design, not plywood and production, he would have a staring role!

[@annaavetisian8769]

The metaphor is the best! ))

[@gbresaleking]

My grandparents had that charles ray eames wood table with rounded triangular glass top and plywood and leather lounge chair with ottoman and they got both from herman miller furniture company

[@soficeck9104]

Thank you, thank you and thank you again!

[@insanedumpling123]

Interesting! Thank you

[@deborahdavis6801]

Still loving ALL of them!!

[@faithinverity8523]

How about Fortune Cookie instead of Potato Chip; it suggests symmetry?

[@mobboss918]

Matthew, "Our Sabbath Home" "Friendship, Loyalty, Truth" and "Visit the Sick" are all credos associated with the International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF). A benevolent society much like the Elks or Masons. The benches you showed in the video we likely manufactured by The Gardner Co. for the IOOF to be used in their Fraternal lodges around the world. Show Eames Demetrios the Gardner Bench, he will find it fascinating and tell you of a tenacious bench collecting man named Park Lee Taff but not just the bench. His lust for benches compel him to capture the entire lands surrounding the seating unit. See more via Kcymaerxthaere / Bench Spotting through your own research but remember, "Eventually everything connects"

[@rickardastrom2570]

Yay, nordic design!

[@lundsweden]

Just a thought... Is the potato chip type chair similar to hyperbolic paraboloid shapes such as a saddle?

[@panganaranga]

Honorable mentions go out to Norman Cherner to maybe made the most elegant plywood chair with a nice detail wich is the changing thickness within one piece of plywood. Okay, didnˋt help, they all broke. And Egon Eiermann, who maybe made the most comfortable seat contour in the plywood chair world.

[@balisticsquirel]

If i stopped here in the history of furniture design considering materials, i would say that the next logical step should be moulded plant fiber mush. In a matrix of resin, fibers oriented in all directions would achieve more of the omni-directional strength than even plywood does. Would be more formable, as plastic has made possible. Use more of the tree than plywood. One could also tweak properties by choosing the resin content. IF we were going to continue using the natural (plant, renewable) resource that is.

[@Boguslaw47]

in 1881, Fitzland L. Wilson filed a patent in the United States for a new machine: the veneer lathe was born. It would go on to rationalise timber peeling and intensify the production of thin sheets of wood. But the real turning point occurred a few years later, in 1884. A further patent was filed in the United Kingdom by Witkowski, relating to the use of casein glue to bond sheets of wood together with the grains of adjacent layers arranged at right angles to one another. This invention paved the way for the manufacture of large industrial panels. Between the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th century, plywood began to make its mark in Russia, Finland and Central Europe. Why? Because these countries were blessed with vast quantities of easy-to-peel wood, such as spruce and birch. www.thefrenchplywood.com/a-history-of-performance/

[@kidmohair8151]

better metter fore...I don't have one, just playing with the syllables

[@davidgold5961]

28:23 I love your presentation, but at 28 minutes and 23 seconds the word FINNISH needs to have two of the letter N, not one. Also PAVILION has only one letter L.

[@HistoryofID]

THANK YOU!!!!!! Too late to fix it now, and that's the price for moving too fast trying to get these done in such a short time. But I love having the corrections noted for all!

[@brandongoon789]

I think a Pringle makes more sense than a potato chip

[@jamesboggs9982]

Taco got very confusing. Lol

[@lisad1993]

Taco vs Potato Chip maybe Wave vs Flower Petal?

[@nordfaen]

Thank YOU very much 😁