Source: Photograph by Eric Laignel, New York Times
Seeking to promote the benefits of corian, DuPont has recently opened three corian design studios, one in New York, one in Milan, and one most recently in Philadelphia. The studio in Philadelphia, designed by Harry Allen. The 2,500 sf studio features a conference room table that appears to seemlessly stretch through a glass wall and window shades made of corian with etched images of city scene outside on them. The studio is located in the somewhat mysterious Marketplace Design Center – a haven for local interior designers to buy upmarket goods straight from the manufacturer. DuPont, headquarted in Wilmington, Delaware, chose Philadelphia because of its proximity to its hometown and because of its numerous design practices. It will be interesting to see Corian in a number of different applications, including exterior work such as its use in the Seeko’o Hotel in Bourdeaux, France.
