Rachel Hardings Corian chair is inflated like a balloon

London designer Rachel Harding has created a balloonlike chair by inflating Corian, a solid surface material more commonly used for kitchen or bathroom countertops. Invented by American chemical company DuPont in 1967, Corian is a very hard, nonporous and stainresitant composite material. It is widely used in kitchens, bathrooms and even building facades. What a lot of people don t know about Corian is that, because it s a composite, it s actually thermoformable, Harding explains in the movie, which