Vintage turtle lucite tray with silver metal frame, 1980

The rectangular tray features a modernist design and is made from lucite and silver-plated metal frame. The lucite it has been designed to resemble tortoise shell, which was a popular material in the Eighties. It's in very good conditions. Lucite is a type of acrylic material that was first developed in the 1930s. It became popular for use in furniture and decorative objects in the 1960s and 1970s, and remained a popular choice in the 1980s. Vintage home decor items like this tray are often valued by collectors for their aesthetic and historical significance. This tray it was intended for use as a serving tray or decorative piece in a modernist or contemporary interior design scheme. Overall, this tray is an example of the modernist design aesthetic which emphasized clean lines, simple shapes, and the use of new materials and technologies. Reference : 281143