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12 New Generation Solid Surface Designs from Avonite™

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Residential wine wall using Avonite Studio Collection™ Ocean Breeze

Residential wine wall using Avonite Studio Collection™ Ocean Breeze. Image courtesy of Aristech Surfaces®.

Let your imagination run wild for a moment thinking about the variety of projects  you could create with solid surface material that is vibrant with color, translucent enough for backlighting and has the appearance of movement or texture.  With the launch of Avonite™ Surfaces’ (a brand of Aristech Surfaces®) 12 new design materials under their Studio Collection™, the possibilities are endless.

The new colors fall into three Studio Collection categories:  The Elements (translucent veined colors), The Mosaics (think terrazzo) and Frosted Glass (great for backlighting).  Pictured is a gorgeous, custom-designed wine wall using one of the new colors from The Elements Collection, Ocean Breeze.

The applications for this next-generation, proprietary resin-blend material vary widely from artwork, to Continue reading →

Corian® Represents Solid Surface at Super Bowl 2016

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Featuring 11 unique gallery and exhibit spaces, the 49ers Museum presented by Sony is a 20,000 sq. ft. facility dedicated to the 49ers past, present and future.

The curved, seamless walls of the new Levi’s® Stadium Museum in Santa Clara, CA, create a clean, uniform look that highlights why DuPont™ Corian® is the obvious choice for designers who want to make a bold statement with a durable solid surface.

The museum’s tall, translucent Corian® panels help capture the feeling and energy of the 49ers’ images projected on them. But they also are durable, which is necessary for an area with high volumes of visitor traffic.

“It is not surprising that Corian® would be featured so prominently in the Levi’s® Stadium Museum,” said John Richard, Global Business Director for DuPont Surfaces. “This type of impressive, large-scale design lends itself to Corian® both because of the surface’s aesthetic beauty and the ability to form it into virtually any shape or design.” Continue reading →

Avonite Adds 35 Solid Surface Colors To It’s New International Pallete

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Avonite® Surfaces, a brand of Aristech Surfaces LLC, is launching  35 solid surface colors in its new International Pallet of Avonite colors.

Architects and designers increasingly work the world over, and Avonite’s new International Palette provides them a truly global range of trend setting colors and designs. This palette allows them to make exciting and creative product and color choices no matter where in the world the project may be.

Whether or not you work the world over, are tied to an ethnic enclave or geographic region, and/or you love the colors of your heritage, the Avonite International pallet gives you that forward reaching set of tools to color your creations. Continue reading →

Furniture Created Out of LG Hausys’ HI-MACS® Adds Streamlined Function & Cutting Edge Design to Beaugrenelle Commercial Center in Paris

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Take a minute to imagine the perfect shopping setting…a center that offers hundreds of product options in one place, while also offering high-tech interactive information centers and (to top it off!) unparalleled comfort to make your experience more enjoyable and relaxing.

Answering this need, Brandimage, a global consultancy of brand-equity architects and designers, stepped in to design key pieces of “screen furniture” to make the ‘enjoyable and relaxing’ vision of Beaugrenelle Commercial Center in Paris, France, a reality. Continue reading →

Innovative Headwall Design Showcases Versatility of Solid Surface for the Healthcare Industry

A rendering of the UCSD Headwall by Cannon Design.

A rendering of the UCSD Corian Headwall by Cannon Design. Image source PRWeb.com

Seeking new ways to create an optimum healing environment, Modular Services Company and Shield Casework recently teamed up with CannonDesign’s Yazdani Studio to create a cutting edge patient headwall design for the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center that is as visually appealing as it is functional.

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