Clearly a Cool Mid-Century Armchair! Modern furniture is made from a variety of materials such as wood and metal, fabrics and leather. Many of these materials are not that different from those used to manufacture more traditional style furniture. We consider the furniture to be “modern” because of the design and style. But there is one material which is definitely exclusive to modern and contemporary home furnishings and that material is Lucite. Lucite, known as acrylic glass or Plexiglass is a transparent thermoplastic originally developed in 1928 that began appearing in commercial products around 1933. …