PMMA (Polymethyl Methacrylate, aka acrylic)
When plastics were first commercialized though mass-production, one of the really special, exciting and unique qualities that must have captured people’s imaginations was not only the idea that you could mould a material into virtually any shape but that you could even make it look like glass. This must have offered designers a great new tool to create luxuriously clear products that could capture the imagination of consumers. Today, transparency is still a visual quality that very much suggests high value. One of the clearest and most widely available clear materials is polymethyl methacrylate.
It’s also a material with many incarnations, one of which is in a household name, Perspex, which is a sheet ...
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