Find many varieties of an authentic brown lucite available at 1stDibs. Each brown lucite for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using
plastic,
lucite and
metal. Find 2798 options for an antique or vintage brown lucite now, or shop our selection of 172 modern versions for a more contemporary example of this long-cherished piece. There are many kinds of the brown lucite you’re looking for, from those produced as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. A brown lucite is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in
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Vladimir Kagan,
Christian Dior and
Charles Hollis Jones are often thought to be among the most beautiful.
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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