Lucite® on Exhibit

Memphian Caryn Scheidt has been collecting designer Lucite handbags for some 20 years, unaware that the U.S. headquarters for Lucite International, which manufactures the well known brand of acrylic central to the creative design and beauty of her vintage bags was in her own back yard.

When Lucite executives heard about Mrs. Scheidt’s extensive collection of nearly 300 Lucite designer handbags, they agreed to sponsor a special exhibit of the uniquely styled bags entitled “Carry Me,” set to debut and be on display at The Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis from October through January 2010. The exhibit is expected to travel to additional U.S. cities.

“We’re very pleased and excited to be sponsoring this exhibit,” says Lucite’s Business Director, Sheet & Resins, Simon Ellis. “Lucite has a great heritage and market reputation for quality and fashion which we wanted to draw on as we bring the brand into today’s consumer products. Sponsoring this exhibit allows us to build on the beauty and design capability of Lucite from the past to get creative juices going with the design community as we launch our new Perspex® from Lucite® Frost and specialty lines.”

He adds, “Lucite has always been a key product for designers and as fashions today look back to what was great in the past and bring them back to the forefront, Lucite is seeing a resurgence in popularity at the consumer level. Jewelry, shoes and furniture again are making fashion statements, adding to the bathtubs and hot tubs [spas] that have been the mainstays for our business today.”

Today acrylic continues to weave its way into the fabric of American life through a myriad of uses ranging from industrial to commercial to health care, as well as in aesthetic applications through its Perspex from Lucite line of acrylic products in signage, interior design, architecture and retail and exhibit displays. This year marks the product line’s 75th anniversary of serving as a source of inspiration for designers.

For more information, contact Jane Nash, Lucite International, 7275 Goodlet Farms Pkwy, Cordova, TN 38016, 800-4-LUCITE, E-mail: jane.nash@lucite.com, Web: www.lucite.com.