Kartell Pedestal
Vintage 1970s Italian Space Age Stools
Plastic
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1990s Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Steel
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Pedestals and Columns
Plastic
Mid-20th Century Italian Post-Modern Pedestals
Plastic
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Plastic
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Aluminum, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Plywood
Vintage 1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Wood, Faux Leather
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Metal
Mid-20th Century French Brutalist Dining Room Chairs
Beech
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Lucite
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Steel
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Metal
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Steel
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Plastic
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Metal
Vintage 1970s Danish Space Age Stools
Faux Leather, Plastic
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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.
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