The last one hundred or so years have seen the rise to prominence a type of furniture that was hitherto unheard of.
The type of fixtures in question is, of course, that of plastic furnitures.
Today, a very considerable percentage of global fixture sale revenues originate from the sale of these plastic furniture pieces.
The manufacture and distribution of the plastic fixture has itself evolved into no less than a billion-dollar industry, employing thousands upon thousand of people all over the world.
There are some people who are considered to be amongst their respective nations' wealthiest tycoons who have made their money through nothing else other than the sale of plastic furnitures.
For the most part, this plastic fixture is synthetic.
But it is also referred to as being 'artificial.
' Its reference as being synthetic is an allusion to is chemical formulation.
This is, after all, a type of furniture that is made from a combination of chemicals that are made to coalesce to form the material with the modest (but more often than not adequate) structural strength that is characteristic of this sort of furniture.
The artistry (which makes this type of fixture to be referred to as being 'artificial') comes into play once the chemicals have coalesced to make the base material for making fixture - at which point they have to be artistically molded into the specific pieces of furniture.
As previously mentioned, there is not the slightest doubt that plastic furnitures are amongst the most popular in the world.
This leads us to the question of why that is the case.
And the answers are not that hard to fathom, as they stare at us right on our eyes, when we look at the various fixtures.
For one, they tend to be amongst the cheapest types of fixture.
Indeed, in terms of pricing, there is hardly any other type of furniture that can be compared to them.
You go shopping for furniture, and one thing you soon come to realize is that you can often get a piece of plastic furniture (say a plastic chair) at a fraction of what you would get a similar fixture item made of a different material for.
This makes fixture the furniture of choice for the budget constrained person - the person who is only interested in getting functional pieces of furniture for the amount of money they happen to have.
Yet the allure of plastic furnitures is not all in their pricing alone.
Thanks to the great malleability associated with plastic as a material (where it can be molded into almost any shape), we tend to have fixture being amongst the most beautiful sorts of fixture.
This leads us to the situation where we have people who could afford other sorts of furniture, but who are still drawn to plastic furniture due to its aesthetic appeal.
Most fixture tends to be seamless, made as it is, from a molding process.
This leaves it bereft of joints, which tends to be the points at which other sorts of fixture start to fall apart.
And this means that with proper care, plastic furniture (especially when it is not subjected to overloads), can be the most durable variety of furniture.
That too, is another factor behind the allure of plastic furnitures.