acrylic and metal furnishings. Hollis Jones left Hudson-Rissman in 1972 and has since headed his own eponymous firm specializing in custom furniture commissions.

Hollis Jones’ innovative work has been commissioned by the Hotel Le Mondrian, Bijan Fragrances, Bank of America, Hyatt Regency Hotels and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, among many others. John Lautner, the renowned architect, was so impressed with the designs that he often referred his clients to Hollis Jones to design their furniture and accessories. Hollis Jones’ prestigious roster of private clents has included Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Dean Martin, Diana Ross, Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Sylvester Stallone, John H. Johnson, H. Ross Perot, Tennessee Williams, and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, to name a few.

In his 40 years as a designer, Hollis Jones’ exploration of acrylics and metal have won him numerous awards and earned him international recognition. The Los Angeles Times refers to Hollis Jones as a “pioneer in acrylic design” and Dona Meilach, author of Creating Modern Furniture (Crown Publishers, 1975) considers him a "master designer" and "literally a virtuoso in the application of plastic sheet to contemporary furniture design."

In the early 1970s Hollis Jones’ “Edison Lamp,” made of Lucite® and metal and using Edison bulbs, won an award in the California Design 11 competition, was honored for “Brilliance in Design” by the German Government, and was placed in the Pasadena Museum of Modern Art (now the Norton Simon Museum), along with his folding tables and étagère. In 1976, Hollis Jones received an award from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for his “Metric Line” tables. In 1992, he accepted the Carl Beam Sculpture Award from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. In 2001, key pieces of his body of work were featured as part of Christie’s “Innovators of Twentieth Century Style” sale.

Hollis Jones is still designing in Los Angeles, California.

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Born in Bloomington, Indiana in 1945, Charles Hollis Jones started designing at the age of eight years old. At that time, his passion was designing cars. Later, as a teenager, he began designing cabinets, lamps and tables for his father’s house-pattern business and, for the first time, was able to translate his designs from paper to finished product.

In 1961, at age 16, Hollis Jones founded CHJ Designs and began designing department store furniture and accessories – small tables, mirrors, waste baskets and display cabinets. Bullocks Department Store was the first to order his work. Two years later, in 1963, Hollis Jones moved to Los Angeles and began working for Hudson-Rissman, an esteemed furniture accessory showroom. Within six months, he was appointed chief designer and began creating his signature