The “Gust of Wind” at London Design Week

At the London Design Week in Victoria and Albert Museum the installation of “Gust of Wind” was presented. The “Gust of Wind” was created from high-tech coating Corian ® from DuPont ™ by Paul Cocksedge.

A blank sheet of paper is the starting point for the manifestation of a set of ideas and creative abilities. For Paul Cocksedge , who is one of the most popular designers in England, this “canvas” itself becomes a work of art in the form of installations for three days in the famous Victoria and Albert Museum. Made of 300 curved plates (a multipurpose material, which inspired many of the original thinking people around the world) of high-tech composite DuPont ™ Corian ®, the installation of ” Gust of Wind” creates the impression that the pieces of paper, caught by the wind to the sky, are floating in the air.

This event took place at the London Design Festival 2010 and at the Friday evening program of Victoria and Albert Museum, which is held on the last Friday of each month and the highlight of which is a very popular event of “free distribution of design.

Accordingly, Paul created the “Gust of Wind” as something which is both ephemeral and capable for the second life: in the evening of September 24 and after the disassembling the installation elements were distributed for free among the visitors. Each of the 300 plates of DuPont ™ Corian ® was formed in such a way not only to create the sense of a sheet of paper carried by the wind in flight, but to serve as a tray to those who were lucky enough to get one of these plates.

“I wanted to create something visually striking, in which a fleeting moment of something very beautiful could be captured,” Paul said,” but something that can be cherished after the moment has passed. To express this idea, I chose DuPont ™ Corian ® for a number of reasons. I was really interested to see and understand the inner dignity of the material. “

“Gust of Wind” was presented in the exhibit for three nights, after which it was dismantled, and the elements were distributed among the visitors. On each of the “signed” plates there is an inscription CNC and a unique number that makes the “Tray of ideas of Paul Cocksedge from DuPont ™ Corian ®” very desirable object of collecting in limited edition.