Rustic Lucite?

nice image from California Home & Design. love that lucite thrown in with the modern-rustic.

Habitually Chic: I Heart Gilles Mendel

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Habitually Chic: I Heart Gilles Mendel:

"A little while back, I saw two small photos of bachelor Gilles Mendel's apartment and was dying to see more. Luckily for me, the October 2007 issue of Elle Decor has a whole spread dedicated to the designer and CEO of J. Mendel, his family's company that was founded in 1870. Talk about chic!"

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Gilles' friend and interior designer Alan Tanksley had a hand in creating the "tailored and pared down environment" for the man who is not quite a minimalist but who also doesn't want be bombarded with excessive visual clutter after he leaves the office.

Habitually Chic: Give Me Libertine or Give Me Death!

"An English Regency dresser is flanked by 18th-century chairs and topped off with a Lucite and chrome flea market lamp. "

Habitually Chic: Give Me Libertine or Give Me Death!:

This is an excerpt from an insightfully observant article analyzing Johnson Hartig's Home Decor sensibilities today and 5 years ago.

That Amazing Lucite Coffee Table on the Cover of Domino Magazine

We've had a million calls asking us if we could provide lusting lucite lovers with a table like the one on the cover of Domino Magazine this month.

Yes we can.

aaron r thomas

These spaces by Cindy Greene and Johnson Hartig of Libertine exemplify the liberating, rebellious, happy-chic side of transitional style.

Charles Hollis Jones Furniture : Kelly Lynch and Mitch Glazer Residence, designed by John Lautner

Lynch, Glazer Residence

Trust Your Style: February 2006

Trust Your Style: February 2006:

"Decorating Delight I've got redecorating on the brain and this photo from Graham and Green had a bunch of stuff I've been wanting, including the bubble stem lamp, the lucite chair, mirrored 30s furniture, and the retro radio."

Hotel Biba - Palm Beach - by Barbara Hulanicki

Hotel Biba - Palm Beach

Clearly cool By Leah Hennen: "Plastic Furnishings are the Bomb"

After reading all about it, you’ll be able to see clearly that Lucite and other clear plastic furnishings are a great design choice.

Whoever thought that plastic could be so luxurious? Though long associated with disco-era excess, clear Lucite is back in a big way–and today’s offerings couldn’t look chicer or more sophisticated. The appeal is easy to see (even if the material may not be): Sinuous pieces alternately rivet your attention and dissolve from view, bulky furniture becomes fluid and ethereal, objects appear to float on air. What’s more, “Lucite works with everything,” says Barbara Hulanicki (BarbaraHulanickiDesign.com), a Miami interior designer who’s used the material extensively. “It has a ghostlike quality that doesn’t disturb the rhythm of the room or the style you’re mixing it in with.” Indeed, clear plastic furnishings–whether they’re made from Lucite, acrylic, or polycarbonate–are surprisingly versatile, complementing everything from sleek ultramodern spaces to over-the-top nouveau-Baroque decor. The material’s frequent absence of color is a bonus, too, allowing it to harmonize with subdued neutrals, zingy brights and every hue in between. Whether you want to add a touch of retro-fabulous glam to your decor or appreciate acrylic’s ability to subtract visual clutter from a more minimalist setting, plastic furnishings are the bomb.

Decorating : Playing With Plastic : Home & Garden Television

Playing With Plastic : Home & Garden Television:
"Playing With Plastic 4 steps to decorating with plastic in your own home. (Continued) By Lean Hennen Special to HGTV.com

4. Remember: All things in moderation. Overdone, 'Lucite can look a bit ‘Seventies drug dealer,’ ' Hulanicki admits. So unless that’s the vibe you’re actually going for, use acrylic as an accent, not the main attraction. One piece of acrylic furniture or a couple of accessories per room is all you need to add a touch of sexy, see-through style. A little Lucite, after all, goes a long way."

Playing With Plastic : Home & Garden Television

Playing With Plastic : Home & Garden Television:
"Playing With Plastic 4 steps to decorating with plastic in your own home. (Continued ) By Lean Hennen Special to HGTV.com

3. Get eclectic. Play with style juxtapositions, too: Soften a stark, modern space with acrylic furniture or lighting that’s molded into ornate, neo-Baroque forms – a common update on the more straightforward styles of yesteryear. Or add wit to a traditional room by incorporating a bit of space-age swank. 'Take a beautiful antique table, for instance, and modernize it with acrylic chairs,' Becker suggests."

Decorating : Other : Playing With Plastic : Home & Garden Television

PHOTO Lucite and resin table custom-designed by Form Architecture Interiors.

Playing With Plastic : Home & Garden Television:
"Playing With Plastic 4 steps to decorating with plastic in your own home. (Continued) By Lean Hennen Special to HGTV.com



2. Mix it up. A Lucite lamp looks classy (and classic) on a glass table, but it’s also fun to juxtapose the diaphanous material against a heavier or rougher surface. 'Lucite works as a gorgeous contrast to upholstered, wood, or solid pieces,' says Brent Leonard of New York City’s Form Architecture Interiors (FormArch.com), which often uses Lucite in its projects."

Decorating : Playing With Plastic : Home & Garden Television

PHOTO Lucite pendant custom-designed by Form Architecture Interiors.

Playing With Plastic : Home & Garden Television:

4 steps to decorating with plastic in your own home. By Lean Hennen Special to HGTV.com

1. Add space and sparkle. Since the eye travels right through it, acrylic 'blends with its surroundings and imparts a sense of spaciousness and lightness,' says Holly Becker, a Boston interior designer and author of the popular blog decor8 (decor8.blogspot.com). An acrylic table in an entryway, for instance, provides a surface for display and storage but takes up zero visual space. Likewise, an acrylic chair tucked under a white-painted table creates a stylish but visually unobtrusive home workspace. And while glass reflects light, acrylic actually carries it, 'allowing light to dance in a space,' Becker says, and making the material seem lit from within."

Welcome to the Transitional Style Blog: Decorating with Lucite

image from Decorating Spaces: April 2006

Transitional furniture is a Contemporary style that blends modern ideas with traditional lines to create a unique 20th century style. Lucite / Acrylic Furniture is such a fresh fun way to use traditional forms in an ultra contemporary material.
This blog will highlight some of my favorite Acrylic Designs -old and new- from my vault of tear-sheets and from my obsessive tweaky current research. I hope you find these postings entertaining and educational.

I feel that words are over-rated and pictures provide so much more than hyped-up explanations: consequently, you will find most of these posts will probably be image heavy.