Plastic Furniture
Early 20th Century American Industrial Plastic Furniture
Rubber
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Plastic Furniture
Chrome
Early 20th Century German Bauhaus Plastic Furniture
Brass, Chrome, Steel
Early 20th Century Industrial Plastic Furniture
Metal, Nickel
Early 20th Century Japanese Plastic Furniture
Fabric, Acrylic
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Plastic Furniture
Chrome
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Plastic Furniture
Lucite, Wood, Paper
1920s American Chippendale Vintage Plastic Furniture
Fabric, Foam, Mahogany
1910s American Industrial Vintage Plastic Furniture
Steel
New and Vintage Plastic Furniture and Decor
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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