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Article: PROFILE: Due.
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- Design Week
- Article date:
- February 19, 2009
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El Salvador rarely figures on the global design scene, but Due is set to raise the Latin American nation's profile with a new seating collection. Clare Dowdy talks to its two founders about broadening their horizons
Not much springs to mind, design-wise, with Central America. Architecturally, there are the elaborate expat villas of Costa Rica, fashion has the brightly patterned huipiles worn by Guatemala's indigenous female population, and that's about it.
On the surface, El Salvador seems to have even less going for it. The seven million-strong nation, squashed between Guatemala and Honduras, was battered by earthquakes in 2001, buffeted by ...