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at the place where the first panel was glued up by hand in 1905.

It was one of ten (panels of nine other species were made) placed on display at the World's Fair. Autzen, son of the co-owner, was in charge of the 1905 exhibit, which was considered little more than an amusing specialty at the time. Inquiries about the new material rvere made later and orders followed the inquiries. Sales to door manufacturers gave the industry its start.

Although more than 40 billion feet of fir plywood has been made since 1905, the first panel has been preserved. Three years ago, when the panel began to show signs of deterioration, the Douglas Fir Plywood Association financed its complete refinishing.

In the Forestry building, a huge loghouse, are some of the Pacific Northwest's most valuable relics of pioneer days in the forest products industries, including most of the original panels.

Plywood Industry Unveils Pace-Setting Design Ideas

An unprecedented collection of design ideas-many of them highly unorthodox and possibly controversial-was unveiled June 2O in Portland by western fir plywood manufacturers at the industry's Golden Jubilee. The work of five top-flight western architectural and design firms, the ideas were shown in a breathtaking visual exposition consisting of a series of high style architectural and display settings rivaling in artistry anything ever attempted in the building materials field.

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Designed by Chris Choate, Los Angeles architect, under the direction of Joseph Weston, field promotion director for the DFPA, the exposition in the Portland Armory included things that ranged from an abstract garden totem pole to several startling new concepts in home design and construction. There was an indoor-outdoor barbeque and kitchen area rvorthy of a 20th century mansion, a whole series of neat architectural tricks for remodeling, a series of outstanding ideas for incorporating architectural lighting with ornamentation of room interiors, an island builtin with an oriental approach tailored to American ideas of better living, and an out-of-this-world bridge display demonstrating an entirely new concept in design with plywood called Mok6.

Said W. E. Difford, managing director of DFPA, "We are tremendously excited by the possibilities developed by the architects who played a part in this program. Some of the ideas are so advanced that they may well be quite controversial. Others should challenge the design talents of professionals in the field."

The Exposition, which was arranged in a controlled traffrc pattern incorporating major settings, was organized in three sections-one intended to sum up the importance of the industry today, the other to exhibit the Golden Ideas developed for the industry by the architectural firms employed for that purpose, and the third to suggest uses and markets which will play an important role in the plywood industry of the future.

Ceiling soffits in the setting were of several kinds. One was a repetitive pattern in Mok6, a new design concept in

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