With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the plexi light you’re looking for. A plexi light — often made from
plastic,
plexiglass and
metal — can elevate any home. There are 434 variations of the antique or vintage plexi light you’re looking for, while we also have 106 modern editions of this piece to choose from as well. Your living room may not be complete without a plexi light — find older editions for sale from the 19th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. A plexi light, designed in the
mid-century modern,
modern or
Scandinavian Modern style, is generally a popular piece of furniture.
Laura G Art With Heart,
Gino Sarfatti and
Angelo Mangiarotti each produced at least one beautiful plexi light that is worth considering.
A plexi light can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $3,223, while the lowest priced sells for $0 and the highest can go for as much as $2,000,000.
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.
