Apr 5 2010
DuPont will showcase the innovative interior design project, "Smart-ologic Corian Living" at the Milan Design Week 2010 in April.
Images and design by Karim Rashid Inc. for “Smart-ologic Corian® Living,” all rights reserved.
"Smart-ologic Corian Living" is a smart, environmentally-sustainable home concept designed by Karim Rashid, one of the world's most prolific and multi-awarded designers, based on the superior design versatility and renowned sensorial qualities of DuPont Corian advanced surfacing material.
All the areas of the home - kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living room, garden - will be creatively interpreted by Karim and populated by a variety of smart home design solutions where DuPont Corian techno-surface will be the key player and the connecting element.
The exhibition also is showcasing an interpretation by Karim of DuPont Energain panel system for energy consumption reduction, DuPont Tyvek building membrane and the new photovoltaic module marketed in Europe by DuPont Building Innovations.
"The 'Smart-ologic Corian Living' project gave me the opportunity to design a modular holistic house concept, a metaphor for how materials, technologies, housing, furnishings and space can work together to evoke an increased sense of experience, positively affect our psyche and bring us a better contemporary life, a better living and also enable us to reduce the environmental footprint of our daily decisions and actions," Karim said.
According to Jean-Yves Bach, DuPont Building Innovations regional business director for Europe, Middle East and Africa, "The futuristic home living concept that will be shown at the Milan Design Week is a combined showcase of distinctly appealing designs from world-class designer Karim Rashid and DuPont's environmentally sustainable building materials and solutions. We expect the 'Smart-ologic Corian Living' to generate widespread interest because of its capability to suggest ideas, concepts and solutions that address a variety of technical and environmental challenges in interior design, while offering the genuinely imaginative and inspired creations of a design star like Karim."
In this project, the world-class design genius of Karim Rashid is complemented by the world-class skills of DuPont in materials design. Exploiting exceptional know-how in materials science, biology, chemistry and manufacturing technologies, DuPont science and technology teams have designed and engineered a futuristic type of DuPont Corian made with environmentally sustainable bio-sourced components and with recycled content and also a new "futuristic concept" of DuPont Zodiaq quartz surface incorporating bio-based ingredients.