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Ortiz straddles the divide, using pops of bright solids in chairs or yellow see through tabletops in the same home as clear Lucite chandeliers, and shaped legs holding up other pieces.Lucite is great, he said, for combining periods in home furnishings. "We mix it with antiques so it doesn't compete."Ultimately sleek and modern, the designers said, the acrylic in name and sensibility has traveled far from the '50s, considered its heyday, straight through to the '70s, a period followed by several years of sagging interest revived by a new generation of designers."As a sculptor in addition to a designer, I was attracted to the endless possibilities of using Lucite to create new jewelry shapes a loose fitting bangle or cuff that wraps around the wrist, a solid Lucite ball on a long chain," said Isaac Manevitz, creator of the Ben Amun jewelry line."When I started my brand in the early '80s, Lucite helped pave the way for outrageous fashion jewelry that was more fun than the smaller diamonds that had been so popular in previous decades," he said.In suburban Chicago, Wendy Piersall has the bug for vintage, inspired in part by a grandmother who passed down a tortoise colored Lucite bag."My father's mother was incredibly fashionable, with impeccable taste," she said. "It's really one of my favorite pieces of all time. You just can't find stuff like that anymore."In the '50s home, after the war and its rationing were over, all things "modern, fresh and clean" were appealing, and Lucite swept in, said Chris Robinson, business manager for Lucite International, a Memphis, Tenn. based division of Mitsubishi Chemicals."It was cool to have clear Lucite cutlery. It was in everything," he said. "Back then it was expensive stuff and arty stuff, so the fancy people were getting it. They were looking for things that weren't metal, like the things their parents had. Lucite was a material that no one had seen before."Lucinda Loya is always well accessorized's closet melds fashion and fun.Each dress, cuff and pair of shoes represents her ability to creatively blend innovative styles by such designers as Martin Margiela with the classic an Herms silk scarf, a Birkin bag or an