It seemed somehow unfinished, the kitchen not quite right, the doors either poorly fitting or missing, the varnished cabinets made of thin wood, the floors creaky and uneven.

NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones

Interior walls that look like hardwood paneling are in fact made of paper-thin wood veneer on top of Nomex honeycomb, a lightweight paper-and-resin material normally found in jet airplanes.

FORBES: Mine's Lighter

Tapio Wirkkala's wafer-thin laminated wood bowls and fluid, flaring glass, and the objects of art and manufacture of Timo Sarpaneva, Kaj Franck and other Finnish architects and artisans prove once again that the intrinsic quality of materials reduced to their most basic, sensuous essence, shaped by the creative imagination of an artist, beats all the kitsch in the world.

WSJ: Finnish Master Alvar Aalto | By Ada Louise Huxtable

Fowler hit a thin 3-wood that never got more than shoulder-high and barely reached the first fairway.

NPR: A Monday Finish Turned Into A Monday Start

Chicago Deep Dish Pizza: New York or Neapolitan style pizza does not ship well, but deep dish travels magnificently, losing very little in translation, and since the best deep dish pizza, unlike the best thin crust pizza, does not require a special ultra-hot coal or wood burning oven, it lends itself to heating at home.

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