With his coffee table series ‘IWA’—Japanese for ‘stone’—, Roderick Vos celebrates the hidden aesthetics of humble plywood. The stratification of this undervalued material, commonly used in construction, creates the most amazing effect when a stack of sheets is milled into an undulating silhouette. Exposing the variations in colour, suddenly large flames appear to be licking their way up the sides, meeting their counterparts in the oak-veneered top. Appearing to be sculpted by nature, like a rock that has eroded over time, ‘IWA’ is in fact a feat of human ingenuity and technology.