It's All About the ConeZone

It is, hands down, the most colorful room in D. H. Hill Jr. Library. If you haven’t visited, take a trip to the West Wing, grab a double scoop of chocolate from the Creamery, and take a few minutes to enjoy the ConeZone. Opened in April to provide some much-needed additional seating for the NCSU Libraries, the ConeZone is one more great place to put your head down and get some work done or to put your feet up and grab some quick conversation during a study break.

And on this trip you'll definitely experience some of the best furniture around. Not to mention the only DIRTT wall in the library (to be clear, this is not the same Dirt as in The Arrogant Worms album, the now-defunct television show , or the cake made out of Oreos).

Note the great Dr. NO (nothing to do with James Bond) chairs and Dr. NA tables that populate the room. Colorful, comfortable, tough, and just plain cool (like James Bond), the chairs and tables were designed by Philippe Starck , one of the most famous contemporary product, furniture, and interior designers working today.

Based in Paris, of course, Starck has designed everything from sleek lemon squeezers for Alessi now displayed in the Museum of Modern Art, to motorcycles , to optical mice for Microsoft, to some of Target’s favorite home products. Enjoy his work in the ConeZone! Also spend a few minutes with the lithographs by Helen Frankenthaler , one of the most interesting abstract expressionists in the United States.

After you’ve admired the zone and are ready to return to your studies, you’ll find ample electrical outlets and the same wireless access available in the rest of D. H. Hill Jr..

One request—food is okay, even necessary, in the Libraries. We do ask you not to carry sticky cones outside the general area of the ConeZone and the Creamery.