Featured Home: Peter Alton
Peter began a career as an antiques dealer in December of '96. For six
months he collected and dealt in your average normal boring old antiques
and collectibles. One day he was shopping and found a white plasic
"mushroom" chair (the one shown below, with the Weltron 2001 8 track deck). He
fell in love with it instantly and made it his goal to find more like it.
Peter discovered that things like that are pretty hard to find, so along the
way he got some great looking non designer 50s furniture. Although it wasn't
exactly what he wanted, it filled the empty spaces in his home.
Gradually over the next year and a half, his collection grew and he soon had
enough plastic artifacts to more than fill his home. "My collection keeps
growing and growing and my living space seems to get smaller and smaller
every day," he says.
The pieces he would most like to add to his collection are a
vintage Eero Aarnio Ball Chair, a double molar settee and molar chair by
Wendell Castle and a Keracolor Television.
Some of his favorite pieces are a GRP pedistal chair by Eero Aarnio
produced by Asko, Finland and a wonderful orange Bacco bar by Sergio
Mazza produced by Artemide, Italy.
His goal for the future is to start space age plastics design museum
which he hopes to open soon. It will be a permanent collection open to the
public with the purpose of promoting and educating people about the
great plastic designs of the 60s and early 70s. You can email Peter to say hi!
