A rundown building in New York has been converted into a contemporary flagship store for handbag retailer Longchamp. The retail space was situated above street level so the designers were asked to find a way to draw people up into the store via the staircase.

Natural light shines down through the building onto this impressive staircase which was designed by Heatherwick studios of London and Atmosphere Design Group of New York and took over two years to design and over six months to build. The retail store is now acknowledged as a work of art and is made of an impressive 55 tonnes of steel and 4 tonnes of Peeraguard coated PETG.

“This job was a real challenge to coat” said Dr Sean Farnan, Operations Manager “Every panel was a different size and in 3-Dimensions which meant a different gun set-up each time, but as you can see the results were well worth the effort”.

More about Peeraguard:
It is a unique high quality UV-cured protective coating with good optical properties developed exclusively by ourselves & is designed for the protection & enhancement of acrylics, polycarbonates, PET, PETg and many plastic substrates.

Peeraguard is characterized by extremely good physical, optical and chemical properties. It is also a high gloss no distortion coating with a surface hardness of 6H (it is also available in an exterior grade)

High specification coatings can be applied to both sheet and formed products to provide effective abrasion and excellent chemical resistance making it ideal for anti-graffiti solutions
                                                      
Ideal for many applications: i.e. Safety Visors, Machine Guards, Point of Sale Displays, Instrument & LCD Displays, Automotive Instrumentation & White Goods.