Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
The now omnipresent design use of acrylic and Lucite owes much of its enduring popularity to seasoned creative Charles Hollis Jones. Nicknamed “Mr. Lucite,” the California-based furniture designer and artist made his reputation — and contributed to a lasting legacy for a material one might not immediately consider highbrow — with chairs, tables and other furnishings in the substance scientifically known as polymethyl methacrylate. But while the connecting thread through Jones’s body of work is the presence of translucent materials, his designs are anything but one-note.
The son of an Indiana carpenter, Jones has always been fascinated with structure and reinventing expected ones in new ways. He began working with furniture manufacturers while still a teenager and came to prominence in the 1960s and ’70s, researching and experimenting with techniques to shape acrylic into unconventional forms. “If I design a T-A-B-L-E without thinking of the name, then I can pretend I’ve never seen one,” he told PIN-UP magazine. His design combinations run the gamut from Lucite, brass and glass on elegant dining tables to more unusual applications of Lucite as legs for upholstered sofas and frames for Tibetan fur chairs.
Jones’s work is as varied as his client list, which has included Frank Sinatra, Sylvester Stallone and the Kardashians. For Tennessee Williams, he created a writing chair called the Wisteria chair. Jones also collaborated several times with modernist architect John Lautner, designing furniture that seemed to disappear into its surroundings.
He resides in Los Angeles, where he still designs today.
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Acrylic
1960s American Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Bronze
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Lucite, Acrylic
Late 20th Century American Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Lucite
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Brass
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Bronze, Steel
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Lucite
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Brass
2010s Portuguese Modern Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Oak
2010s Guatemalan Modern Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Wood, Mahogany
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Glass, Wood, Fabric
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Steel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Organic Modern Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Wicker, Wood
1950s French Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Wood
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Lucite
Early 20th Century Neoclassical Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Wood, Paper
2010s Central American Modern Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Wood, Cypress
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Chrome
1960s American Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Enamel
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Brass
1970s American Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Acrylic, Lucite
1970s American Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Lucite
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Lucite, Acrylic
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Lucite, Acrylic
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Lucite
20th Century American Modern Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Metal, Nickel
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Paint, Lucite
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Charles Hollis Jones Home Accents
Steel