Milan Exhibits by Corian
DuPont Corian used this year’s Milan Design Week as a promotional and presentation opportunity to present its fresh new ideas through design research of the Corian material, realized through the “Fresh Light of Corian” project which we featured here.
As DuPont Corian has been recently broadening its scope of activities towards the Eastern European countries, this year architects, designers and artists from Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia displayed their respective viewpoints of the vast possibilities and potentials that Corian illumination has to offer.
You had the chance to see the fifteen or so illumination concepts as we covered the projects on our website, and you can scroll down to take a look what the final products looked like presented at the Corian exhibition which opened at the beginning of this week in Milan.
*Bevk/Perovič (Slovenija) *Marko Basarovski (Srbija)
*Randić i suradnici (HR)
*Dorotia Koziara (Poljska)
*Jaro Vetvicka (Češka)
*3LHD (HR) *Alex Adam (Rumunjska)
It should certainly be pointed out that a good part of the concepts seem more attractive and impressive in their final realized version than the mere outlines we presented at the projects’ earlier stages. Likewise, a few lamps stood out that could very well be included in the Salon’s official offer, as exceptionally high-quality and innovative design products with their excellent concept and/or form. However, on the other hand, we have to be somewhat critical and add that there were also some concepts that could hardly pass muster both conceptually and esthetically-wise at any significant up-to-date design manifestation.
*Fresh light of Corian
On that note, we have to give kudos to the organizers of this project for their initiative of giving a chance to creative personalities from Eastern Europe and including them in this long-standing project. As a suggestion for similar future projects we’d certainly propose a selector or creative producer for the event, who would be in charge of selecting artists or guiding them through the development stages as well as be entrusted with the exhibition set-up (during the most important world design manifestation) so as to avoid mediocrity making the event even more legitimate and authentic.
In addition to the “Fresh Light of Corian” exhibition, DuPont and Corian presented themselves with yet another completely different exhibition at Milan’s Design Week. In the Tortona Zone, a venue where a series of the Salon’s accompanying and off-events were held, at the “Padiglione Visconti” facility The Throne Designs Corian exhibition was set up. The project at hand was created in collaboration with Disney and inspired by the “The Throne: The Legacy” movie.
DuPont and Corian, in collaboration with a series of partners and an international team of architects raised a set simulating the movie’s interior, along with accompanying forms and object such as the kitchen, living room or vehicles from the movie, and all elements are Corian-based.
This movie that has creative personalities all over the world enthralled is actually a small masterpiece, and the visitors of the Milan Exhibition had the chance to see how the furniture, apartment and “gadgets” of the movie’s main hero would look like in the real world as designed by Corian. Click here to view more on the project, designers and architects that worked on it.
