Furniture Design of Plastic Century
XX century has brought many useful inventions and discoveries for mankind, which we use and will use more than one century. But it is worth noting that no invention of the past century has not changed the world around us so strongly, as did the plastic. Actually, the beginning of the experiments on the creation of synthesized polymers was started in the XIX century. And the invention of cinema, we owe this experiment, since the early days of film, movies were shot on celluloid film. And already in 1907, was patented Bakelite – the world’s first fully synthetic material.
About the fact that what an important role in the development and change of the world lead the plastic, can be understood by knowing only the fact that the whole of 2007 at London’s Science Museum exhibition “Plasticity – 100 years of manufacturing plastic”. Today, a hundred years later, the plastic is experiencing a rebirth. But recently the adjective “plastic” was used to emphasize the negative attitude to the subject, it is ranked with the words “mass” and, hence, the “cheap”. However, this is not how much has not affected the attitude of designers to plastic, which are more often turned to it. This is not surprising, because the plastic is a material of high-tech. It may be different either bright, or pale, catchy, something modest, something opaque, then transparent.
It is worth mentioning with respect to the latter, that is transparent plastic. Today it is the most relevant and popular, as in the trendy, and in furniture design. It’s simple, the clear plastic fully complies with the 80-m, which is now once again relevant, it is nothing to hide, pleases all the colors of the rainbow aniline. After a few centuries, and, perhaps much earlier, before the historians of this would be a very understandable, but, nevertheless, it’s a difficult question: what name is most succinctly fits the passed XX century? On this question we, who lived in it (still) a big part of life there is very short and concise answer. “If you, dear anthropologists decide to call the XX century plastic, you’re absolutely right”.
