Dimensions & additional info The Coca Cola - 111 Navy Chair! When two legendary American icons join forces, something big is going to happen! This classic chair from the year 1944 by traditional American chair manufacturer Emeco acquired a new look: The Coca Cola - 111 Navy Chair is made of - hard to believe as it is - 111 recycled Coca Cola plastic bottles, brought back to life in this stylish shape! Along the lines of: "When you recycle Coca Cola bottles you do a good deed. When you recycle 111 Coca Cola bottles you do a grand deed!" Help Coca Cola bottles to a magnificent look!More than 3 million Coca Cola bottles are delivered to Emeco every year for the production of the Coca Cola - 111 Navy Chair. 60% of each chair is made up of the recycled bottles. Fibreglass is added to be able to mold the Navy Chair into its original shape and guarantee its stability and durability.This special edition of the Navy Chair is available in various colours, please see the Coca Cola - 111 Navy Chair product versions for detailed information.
Most chairs are suited for indoor as well as outdoor use. NOTE: The versions grass green, charcoal, and orange are only suited for indoor use. Colorsred, snow white, flint grey, charcoal black, grass green, permisson orangeMaterialsrecycled CocaCola plastic bottles, fibreglassDimensionsWidth: 39cmHeight: 86cmDepth: 50cmSeat Height: 46cmWeight5.7kgOther Features Suitable for outdoor use Coca Cola 111 Navy Chairred/for indoor & outdoor use/H x W x D: 86 x 39 x 50cm - Ready for shipping in 24 hours Add to wish list Coca Cola 111 Navy Chairsnow white/for indoor & outdoor use/H x W x D: 86 x 39 x 50cm Coca Cola 111 Navy Chaircharcoal black/only for indoor use/H x W x D: 86 x 39 x 50cm Coca Cola 111 Navy Chairflint grey/for indoor & outdoor use/H x W x D: 86 x 39 x 50cm Coca Cola 111 Navy Chairpermisson orange/only for indoor use/H x W x D: 86 x 39 x 50cm Coca Cola 111 Navy Chairgrass green/only for indoor use/H x W x D: 86 x 39 x 50cm We carry all products by this brand.
If you are not able to find a certain product in our shop or would like an individual quotation, please send us an enquiry. You'll find further information about energy labelling under "dimensions & additional info" * All prices excluding VAT, plus Shipping cost This item is unfortunately not available in the requested country. For any questions do not hesitate to contact our ServiceCentre. The Emeco 111 Navy Chair is a recycled plastic chair manufactured by Emeco. It is based on the Emeco 1006 chair originally built for Navy warships during World War II. In 2006, Coca-Cola sought a means to keep their plastic bottles their plastic bottles out of landfills, and sought product applications via manufacturing partnerships. They approached chair manufacturer Emeco, best known for manufacturing chairs from aluminum.[3] Emeco's leadership "jumped on the project."[1] The company saw it as an opportunity to develop an innovative, structurally sound material and keep plastic bottles out of the landfill.
[4] The two companies began to talk about the possibilities of recreating the iconic Navy Chair using rPET. A cafe using Emeco 111 Navy Chairs At the time Emeco began working to create the chair out of rPET, other companies were making rPET products such as T-shirts, bags, caps and notebooks.[3] Soft recycled PET plastic was originally intended for short-lived fabric and textiles and Emeco needed to build a tough, one-piece, scratch-resistant chair for heavy-duty use. Emeco’s engineering team worked for 4 years to create a material made of recycled PET plastic that is made into pellets. Those pellets are mixed with glass fiber and color pigment.[3] Each chair starts out as six kilograms of plastic pellets that are melted down and then injection-molded into the shape of the 1006 Navy Chair. Craftsmen add the H brace to make the chair sturdier and they smooth out any imperfections that result from injection moulding. The resulting 111 Navy Chair has the identical design of the 1006 Navy Chair.
The one-piece design is scratch-resistant and suitable for heavy-duty use. Each 111 Navy Chair is made of at least 111 recycled PET plastic bottles – 65% post consumer PET – with 35% glass fiber and pigment; this gives the chair its name.[7] The chair comes in 6 colors and passes all commercial requirements—it is structurally strong, fire retardant and cleanable. As of late 2016, over 22 million plastic bottles have been kept out of the landfill and made into 111 Navy Chairs. Emeco CEO Gregg Buchbinder said in an interview with Forbes magazine “We’ve turned something many people throw away into something you want and can keep for a long, long time.” The chair sells at a much lower price than the original. ^ a b c d ^ a b c d e The Emeco 1006 (pronounced ten-oh-six), also known as the Navy chair, is an aluminum chair manufactured by Emeco.[2] The 1006 was originally built for Navy warships during World War II, but later became a designer chair used in high-end restaurants and by interior designers.
In the 1990s, the company began creating designer versions of the 1006 chair, such as the stackable Hudson chair and the 111 Navy Chair made from recycled plastic. Emeco also makes stools, tables, and other furniture. As of 2012, more than one million Emeco 1006 chairs have been produced. Emeco founder Wilton C. Dinges developed the Emeco 1006 chair in 1944 in collaboration with the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA).[6] It was originally designed for the US Navy, which needed a chair for the deck of battleships that could survive sea air and a torpedo blast to the side of the ship.[5] The chairs had eye bolts under the seat, so they could be attached to a ship-deck using cables. After the war, Emeco started selling 1006 chairs to prisons, hospitals and government offices.[8] The chair was sold to restaurants in the 1980s and 1990s, under Jay Buchbinder's leadership,[7][9] then as a designer chair in the 2000s after Emeco was acquired by his son, Gregg.[9] French designer Philippe Starck designed a total of 14 chairs and 4 tables for Emeco.
In 2006 Coca-Cola began a collaboration with Emeco to create a 1006-based chair[10] made out of recycled Coca-Cola bottles,[11] which was released in 2010.[13] Metropolis Magazine said it was a public relations effort by Coke to make a durable product out of their bottles; they also hoped to encourage other manufacturers to do the same. In 2005, Target started selling an Emeco 1006 imitation product supplied by Euro Style. The supplier said it planned to modify the chair's style to avoid a legal dispute over alleged trademark infringement.[14] In October 2012, Emeco filed a lawsuit against Restoration Hardware for allegedly making unauthorized reproductions of the 1006 Navy chair.[15] Restoration Hardware removed the chair from its website, stopped selling the chair, and reached an undisclosed settlement with Emeco. The Emeco 1006 chair is featured regularly in design magazines and movies, such as The Matrix,[1][6][17] Law & Order and CSI.[14] In Europe the original 1006 chair is sometimes referred to as "the prison chair" due to its use in government prisons and in prison-related movie scenes.
The original Emeco 1006 chair has a curved back with three vertical struts[15] and a slight curve on the back legs.[5] It weighs about seven pounds[7][8] and is guaranteed to last 150 years.[15] Most of the original chairs from the 1940s are still in use.[1] The traditional aluminum chairs are made mostly out of recycled aluminum, but also silicon, iron, copper, magnesium, chromium, titanium and zinc.[2] Emeco 111 chairs are made out of 60 percent recycled plastic and 30 percent glass fiber. The Emeco 111 chair was named based on it being made of at least 111 recycled Coca Cola bottles. As of 2014, there are approximately 88 Emeco chair models.[18] The first designer version of the 1006 chair in the "Emeco by Starck" line[7][8] was the Hudson chair,[11] named after the Hudson Hotel that put a Hudson chair in every room.[5] It has a similar silhouette as the original 1006, but has a reflective or brushed aluminum surface, a solid backrest and is stackable.[8] It also came in swivel and upholstered versions.
[2] The reflective glossy versions of the 1006 chair are polished for eight hours, substantially increasing their cost.[7] There are also Emeco-brand barstools, swivel chairs, rocking chairs and armchairs. Emeco's chairs are manufactured by hand in Hanover, Pennsylvania[7][8] through a two-week, 77-step process.[7] Eames Demetrios, the grandson of designer Charles Eames, published a documentary film on the manufacturing process called "77 Steps."[14] Many believe the chair is cast from a single form, but it is actually welded together from 12 pieces.[7] Sheets of aluminum are rolled into tubes, cut to length, and bent into shapes on large hydraulic machines. Various notches and punchouts are made so pieces can fit together before welding.[19] Workers grind down the welding joints to give it a smooth finish, creating the appearance of being cast from a single piece.[19] The chair goes through a repeated heating and cooling cycle that increases the strength of the aluminum.[1] The chairs are also anodized.