March 2009
Furniture designers Charles and Ray Eames created furniture out of inexpensive materials such as plastic, resin and plywood.
The Eames chair, still popular today, is composed of three curved plywood shells.
The shells are made up of seven thin layers of wood veneer.
They are then glued together and shaped under heat and pressure.
The original version of the Eames chair used Brazilian rosewood veneers and was constructed of five layers of plywood.
That is one example of something good that came out of bad times.
As the saying goes, "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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