Vintage Plastic Model Kits
1980s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Plastic, Paper
1980s Portuguese Post-Modern Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Fabric, Plastic
Late 20th Century Unknown Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Fabric, Glass, Plastic, Wood
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19th Century American Classical Vintage Plastic Model Kits
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Porcelain
Early 20th Century Impressionist Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Oil
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Teak
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Aluminum
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plastic Model Kits
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1980s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Paper
1920s Folk Art Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Wood
1990s American Modern Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Copper
1930s Modern Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Linocut
1930s Modern Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Linocut
1960s Italian Minimalist Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Aluminum
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Mid-20th Century English Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Plastic
1970s Italian Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Metal
1970s Italian Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Wire
1980s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Plastic, Paper
1970s French Vintage Plastic Model Kits
Materials: plastic Furniture
Arguably the world’s most ubiquitous man-made material, plastic has impacted nearly every industry. In contemporary spaces, new and vintage plastic furniture is quite popular and its use pairs well with a range of design styles.
From the Italian lighting artisans at Fontana Arte to venturesome Scandinavian modernists such as Verner Panton, who created groundbreaking interiors as much as he did seating — see his revolutionary Panton chair — to contemporary multidisciplinary artists like Faye Toogood, furniture designers have been pushing the boundaries of plastic forever.
When The Graduate's Mr. McGuire proclaimed, “There’s a great future in plastics,” it was more than a laugh line. The iconic quote is an allusion both to society’s reliance on and its love affair with plastic. Before the material became an integral part of our lives — used in everything from clothing to storage to beauty and beyond — people relied on earthly elements for manufacturing, a process as time-consuming as it was costly.
Soon after American inventor John Wesley Hyatt created celluloid, which could mimic luxury products like tortoiseshell and ivory, production hit fever pitch, and the floodgates opened for others to explore plastic’s full potential. The material altered the history of design — mid-century modern legends Charles and Ray Eames, Joe Colombo and Eero Saarinen regularly experimented with plastics in the development of tables and chairs, and today plastic furnishings and decorative objects are seen as often indoors as they are outside.
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