‘Plywood,’ suggests Christopher Wilk in the introduction to his fascinating publication ‘is a material that is widely known yet, remarkably, little understood.’ To celebrate and honor Wilk’s extraordinarily intriguing exhibition Plywood: Material of the Modern World, which was recently closed and which I have visited at the V&A this summer, today’s session in the program Collecting Design: History, Collections Highlights was devoted to this single material, or process I should say, which has come to shape design vocabulary in the postwar years.