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DuPont Surfaces in the Media
This edition of "In The News" will bring you up to speed on the most notable commercial
news coverage and highlights. This collection of media hits includes placements in the
nation’s top trade and consumer press.
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Architectural Record
[Monthly Visitors: 250,000]
September 2009
The New York, Philadelphia and Milan DuPont™ Corian® Design
Studios are featured in this roundup news article accompanied
by a photography slide show and interview with Liz Lawson,
North America commercial marketing manager — DuPont Surfaces.
Editor Linda Lentz explains the historical presence Corian® has
had in the surfacing market, and looks to the material’s bright
future when she notes, “Today, this formable, transformable surfacing
has been adapted to accommodate a myriad of commercial and
residential applications — lighting, retail displays and exterior
cladding among them.”
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The Architect’s Newspaper
[Circulation: 10,000]
July 2009
The DuPont™ Corian® Design Studio in New York is featured
in the coveted Open Showroom section in The Architect’s
Newspaper’s July issue. The print article is accompanied by a
more comprehensive online version, which includes multiple
images of the space. Architecture firm Morris Sato Studio and
surfacing solutions provider Evans & Paul are named in the
article, which describes the space as taking Corian® “far beyond
the luxe countertops for which it is generally known,” creating a
“laboratory for architects and designers to explore [the material].”
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Healthcare Purchasing News
[Monthly Visitors: 13,000]
July 2009
The strategic partnership between Skytron and Evans & Paul
to produce SolidCare, a cutting-edge medical cabinetry made
of DuPont™ Corian®, is officially announced in this article.
The piece discusses the many advantages of Corian® in the
healthcare environment, including its non-porous and
ease-of-cleaning attributes.
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Health Facilities Management
[Circulation: 28,500]
June 2009
The introduction of SolidCare makes additional waves in the
healthcare space through its inclusion in the print section “On Our Radar” of Health Facilities Management’s June issue.
SolidCare, which is made with DuPont™ Corian®, is featured as an
innovative new product to watch. The mention, which includes a
photo and a link to Skytron’s website, boasts the durability and
superior cleaning efficiency of the product line.
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Commercial Building Products e-Newsletter
[Circulation: 41,249]
June 2009
The launch of the DuPont™ Corian® Design Studios in New York
and Philadelphia are announced in the manufacturer news
section of Commercial Building Product’s e-Newsletter, a highly
targeted commercial trade publication. The announcement
includes a quote from Tom Schuler, vice president and general
manager — DuPont Building Innovations and names all relevant
partners, including C.H. Briggs in connection to the Philadelphia Studio, as well as Evans & Paul and Dolan & Traynor as contributors to the New York space.
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DesignPhiladelphia
[Monthly Visitors: 4,000]
June 2009, pg. 29
Described as “ultra-modern and super sleek,” the DuPont™
Corian® Design Studio in Philadelphia is featured on
DesignPhiladelphia’s prominent architecture blog, a leading
source on design in and around Philadelphia. The post is
accompanied by a slideshow of images taken from the space,
as well as a link to an online Flickr gallery of images.
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New York Times Magazine’s The Moment Blog
[Monthly Visitors: 100,000]
July, 2009
Quoting renowned designer Harry Allen, this highly significant
post featuring the Philadelphia Design Studio proclaims that “in the
right hands, Corian® can do almost anything.” Announcing the
launch of both the New York and Philadelphia Design Studios,
the blog features a comprehensive interview with Allen, the designer
of the space, accompanied by photography and links to both studios’ websites.
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PSFK
[Monthly Visitors: 24,000]
August 2009
After receiving a private tour of the New York Design Studio,
online design publication PSFK, which covers innovation and trends
in architecture and design, featured both the New York and
Philadelphia spaces in an article discussing “interesting cut
out designs.” Photography showcasing the pulsing Corian® lights
in the New York Studio and the standout Corian® window shades
in Philadelphia was incorporated.
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Design Boom
[Monthly Visitors: 170,000]
August 2009
In a noteworthy article that drove the largest spike in Design Studio
website traffic to date, Design Boom editor Nate Archer posted an
announcement of the launch of the Design Studio in New York and
featured a comprehensive ten photos of the space, including two of
the state-of-the-art operating room. The eye-catching post on this international design blog also mentioned Morris Sato Studio and
Design Studio partners Evans & Paul and Dolan & Traynor.
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MoCoLoco
[Monthly Visitors: 80,000]
August 2009
The DuPont™ Corian® Design Studio makes further traction into the
blogosphere with this posting on MoCoLoco, a high-traffic blog
dedicated to everything related to modern contemporary design
and architecture. The blogger posted several images of the New
York Studio and included a quote from Michael Morris in which he
describes the integration of design and technology. This post also
created a large spike in web traffic to the Design Studio website,
furthering the Company’s reach among architects and designers.
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Design Notes
[Monthly Visitors: 200,000]
August 2009
Titled “Wine, Corian® & Getting High,” this highly complimentary
post on Design Notes, the largely followed blog of “Design
Within Reach,” a contemporary furniture company, first visits
Clo’s Wine Bar in New York, which allows patrons to flip through
wine options that are projected onto a Corian® bar top. The post
then moves to the Design Studio in New York and features an
interview with architect Michael Morris as well as several images of the space. The blogger expresses her interest in the many facets
of Corian®, paying special attention to the material’s healthcare
attributes, noting that “hospital environments are an ideal market
for Corian® since it can be constructed with no seams…and is
bacteria resistant.
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Display and Design Ideas
[Monthly Visitors: 54,000]
August 2009
“A space to show off the diverse capabilities of DuPont™ Corian®
is an understatement.” This truly appreciative description kicks
off a comprehensive blog post about the DuPont™ Corian®
Design Studio in New York on Retail Design Diva, the blog of
modern retail design website, Display and Design Ideas. Editor
Alison Embrey Medina continues her glowing post with comments
that praise the Studio, calling it “a full-out appeal to the senses”
and “a fitting showroom for a timeless product.”
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Contract
[Monthly Visitors: 10,000]
June, 2009
Titled “DuPont™ Corian® Goes to Philly,” this article in Contract
Magazine definitively announces the grand opening of the
DuPont™ Corian® Design Studio in Philadelphia. Naming Corian®
distributor C.H. Briggs and designer Harry Allen throughout, the
article includes a quote from Liz Lawson of DuPont and links to
the Studio website. This placement creates additional buzz around the Design Studio to an audience at the hub of commercial design
and architecture.
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DDI
[Monthly Visitors: 54,000]
June 2009
This article in Display & Design Ideas, an influential retail
design magazine and website, announces the launch of the
DuPont™ Corian® Design Studios in Philadelphia and New York.
The article boasts the studios’ “cutting-edge lighting, sound
and shape technology” and describes the New York space as
a “sanctuary of experience,” relating facets of the studios to
retail design applications with the goal of creating dynamic,
effective store environments.
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Interior Design
[Monthly Visitors: 126,000]
May 2009
As part of New York’s 400th anniversary, Interior Design wrote
a comprehensive and expressive article on the Kingdom of the
Netherlands gifting the New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion,
made with DuPont™ Corian®, to The Battery Conservancy.
After completing a tour with Dutch architect Ben van Berkel
and DuPont on the day of the Pavilion’s unveiling, Corian® is
mentioned in the article as being incorporated into the
undulating walls of the windmill-inspired space.
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Dezona
[Monthly Visitors: 10,000]
September 2009
DeZona, an international architecture and contemporary design online magazine, featured the New York and Philadelphia Design Studios as trend-setting spaces, incorporating photography from both studios and noting the “versatility and functionality of Corian® and other
DuPont materials, like DuPont’s Zodiaq® quartz surfaces.” This piece exemplifies the global influence of DuPont™ Corian® in the design community.
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3Rings Blog
[Monthly Visitors: 1,000]
September 2009
3Rings, a product blog focused on architecture and design,
posted an article on the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s
exhibit at NeoCon 2009, which was themed “Objects That
Entertain Us.” The exhibition incorporated playful and inventive
student-designed objects made of DuPont™ Corian®, and the
blogger called the partnership “one of the most innovative
collaborations I’ve encountered,” signifying the impact and
importance of engaging future designers.
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Design-Phan
September 2009
Design-Phan blogger and Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Caroline
Tiger included a post about the DuPont™ Corian® Design Studio
in Philadelphia on her Philly-centric design blog. Inspired by seeing
the Seeko Hotel clad in Corian® during her travels, the blogger
posted a glowing review of the hotel as well as the Studio.
The post also notes the Corian® bench project set to kick off during
DesignPhiladelphia this October.
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