when sample chips look like a painting...

top: photo of an employee of the eastman plastics company working with the "color library" of "tenite butyrite, tenite acetate, and tenite polyethylene", from a 1950's catalog. the catalog claims eastman manufactured these plastics in over 39,000 different colors. the catalog design is a stunner, looking very much like the work of lester beall...

bottom: painting entitled "cathedral" by frantisek kupka from 1912.