Versatile aluminum, once worth nearly twice its weight in gold, has since become the quintessential metal of our modern lives and a mainstay of modern design. From Philippe Starck's famous spaceship citrus juicer to a chaise longue worth millions of dollars, find out more about aluminum's role in design history from California College of the Arts design professor Mara Holt Skov.

In the spirit of amplifying the Black Lives Matter movement and to avoid any appearance of having appropriated that title, our series of talks formerly called Everything Matters: Tales from the Periodic Table will now be called, simply, Tales from the Periodic Table. Please excuse the former title on videos made in the past.