I remember having a conversation with an equally design-enthusiastic friend a while back about amber glass accents. She loved them, but me? Not so much. Synonymous with the 70s, I felt like it instantly dated an interior. Well, now that style is trendy again, and amber glass is all over H&M Home's latest vases, so I guess the joke's on me.
Amber glass was originally used for more practical purposes. The warm brownish-orange tint blocked out UV, so it worked to protect the contents of medicine containers, beer bottles, and apothecary jars. Then in the 70s, as the design world started to shift away from the shiny, Space Age chrome accents of the 60s towards colors and materials that felt warmer and more earth-connected, amber glass became hugely popular again.
