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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Acrylic
Vintage 1970s French Space Age Shelves
Chrome
People Also Browsed
Vintage 1970s American Space Age Beds and Bed Frames
Stainless Steel
Vintage 1980s American Modern Sectional Sofas
Fabric
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Oak, Plywood
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Textile, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sofas
Metal
2010s Dutch Lounge Chairs
Textile
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Bedroom Sets
Leather, Wood
Vintage 1960s Italian Corner Chairs
Crystal, Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Organic Modern Center Tables
Travertine
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Chaise Longues
Chrome
2010s Italian Modern Beds and Bed Frames
Chrome
Vintage 1980s North American Post-Modern Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Aluminum
Vintage 1970s Italian Space Age Cupboards
Fiberglass
Vintage 1980s Italian Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Wood
Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Dry Bars
Steel, Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Night Stands
Plaster
Recent Sales
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Metal
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.
Find vintage plastic lounge chairs, outdoor furniture, lighting and more on 1stDibs.