PLASTIC HOME (Apr, 1946)
PLASTIC HOME
HERE is the “Plexiglas Dream Suite,” designed to show peace-time uses for the clear plastic which has done such an efficient job decorating the noses and turrets of our fighting planes. The rooms are small in size for efficient air conditioning, but do away with that “closed in” feeling by the use of sweeping plastic walls with draw curtains for privacy. The four-color murals have a three-dimensional effect, achieved by superimposing four sheets of Plexiglas etched in separate colors and design elements. Bookshelves supply just enough indirect illumination. Drawers and shelves have plastic accessories.
Just wait until they build the “House of the Future” in Disneyland. They had a heck of time demolishing it years later.
Comment by Tracy B — November 24, 2009 @ 3:02 pm
I’m really glad more efficient air conditioning won out over tiny glass rooms. Living in a giant ant farm was never on my list of things to do.
Comment by Eamonn — November 24, 2009 @ 3:20 pm
It looks like something that would be used the Twilight Zone episode where a man bet that he could keep quiet for a year and his buddys shut him up in a glass room so he could be watched 24/7.
Comment by KHarn — November 28, 2009 @ 9:34 pm
KHarn: The Silence
Comment by Firebrand38 — November 28, 2009 @ 9:37 pm
Tour the Plexiglass Dream Suite in living color!
http://www.archive.org/details/LookingA1947
Comment by DrewE — November 30, 2009 @ 2:32 pm