Corian® products up for auction

installation ‘the vitamin bar’ by james irvine for ‘de-Lighted by Corian®’ exhibition, milan, april 2003. photo miro zagnoli ©

at : la galerie de pierre bergè & associes, brussels from: september 12 to september 30, 2008

pierre bergé & associés will auction a selection of installations and designs created for DuPont international events

and exhibitions promoting DuPont™ Corian®. 40 objects were created by designers internationally to celebrate

Corian® 40th anniversary. the list of selected works include fourteen architectural shapes by sottsass associati, upperworld hotel, battersea power station by ron arad, a desk and a bench designed by zaha hadid for z. island.

read more: http://www.pba-auctions.com http://www2.dupont.com

related: skin of corian competition

installation ‘upperworld hotel, battersea power station’, designed by ron arad, 2004 edition for biennale di architettura di venezia. photo leo torri ©

some of the fourteen architectural shapes in DuPont™ Corian® by sottsass associati, displayed in exhibition ‘exercises in another material ‘ 2000, at the museum of contemporary art of chicago, and in milan in 2001.

top left ‘table hub’ by werner aisslinger, top right ‘om’ by jeffrey bernett, bottom left ‘gold-grain’ by david rockwell, bottom right ‘tic tac toe’ by harry allen.