The Stool 60 Giveaway. Sign up for our emails and a chance to win this ingenious stackable stool.The Navy Chair with number 1006 is a classic from Emeco. The timeless aluminium chair is handmade through a laborious process, which makes every piece unique. Emeco’s Navy Chair was first produced in 1944 in collaboration with the aluminium manufacturer ALCOA for the American military. It was initially to be used in the Navy, hence its name ‘Navy Chair’. The result was a winner back then as well as today on account of its light weight, stability and durability. Even today the chair is still manufactured by hand out of aluminium in a laborious process. Several trained employees go through 77 stages of work and about 4 hours to produce just one Navy Chair. As a consequence the chair is not only made to be durable, robust and of high quality, but every specimen is also a unique designer piece. The Navy Chair 1006 by Emeco is also available in other colours - for example with armrests or as a children's chair or bar stool.
E-MailSend us an E-Mail with this form.Your nameE-Mail addressTelephone numberSubjectMessage* Required × Questions about the product? seat height: 46 cm Height: 86 cm, Depth: 50 cm, Length: 39 cm 3.18 kg (without packaging) Chairs, Balcony Furniture, Designer Garden Chairs, Designer Kitchen Chairs, Terrace FurnitureNews: American brand Emeco has reached a settlement in its legal dispute with Restoration Hardware after claiming the fellow US company's Naval Chair (below) is a rip-off of its classic Navy Chair (above). Emeco released a short statement saying that "as part of that settlement, Restoration Hardware has agreed to permanently cease selling the chairs that Emeco accused of infringement, and its existing inventory of such chairs will be recycled." The total amount of the settlement remains undisclosed. Emeco Industries Inc. filed for a preliminary injunction in a San Francisco district court on 11 October 2012, seeking to block Restoration Hardware from manufacturing, marketing, advertising, and selling its "cheap knockoffs" of Emeco’s iconic Navy Chair, also known as the 1006 chair.
An original Navy Chair by Emeco retails at around £300, but the Restoration Hardware version was on sale for just £50. “We’re not going to stand by while Restoration Hardware steals our brand and trades on our reputation by selling an inferior product,” said Emeco CEO Gregg Buchbinder at the time. “It’s important for American companies to stand up for craftsmanship, quality and jobs. We not only want to stop Restoration Hardware but prevent others from doing similar damage to our economy.” The Hanover, Pennsylvania-based company first created the Navy Chair with its distinctive curved back and three vertical slats in 1944 as a sea and sailor-proof piece of furniture for the US Navy. Its light weight and toughness led to its widespread use in institutions like police stations, prisons, schools and hospitals across America and the design has been in production ever since. The seats are made by hand from recycled aluminium and are guaranteed for life, which the company estimates at 150 years.
Emeco has more recently experimented with other recycled materials, including the plastic 111 chair made of coke bottles and the Broom chair made of debris from factory floors by Philippe Starck. Copying remains a hot topic in design, including the recent news that an entire building designed by Zaha Hadid for Beijing has been pirated by a developer in Chongqing, with the two projects racing to be completed first. Last year Qatar was accused of "counterfeiting 1000 street lamps". Apple recently had to pay up for using a Swiss rail operator's trademarked station clock design and has now filed a patent for the layout of its Apple stores. Last year UK copyright law was changed to give artistic manufactured goods the same term of protection as literature or art, following a campaign started by Elle Decoration UK editor Michelle Ogundehin, who condemned replicas of classic furniture after the British prime minister's wife revealed that she'd purchased a reproduction of the Castiglioni brothers' iconic Arco floor lamp.
Meanwhile industrial designer Tom Dixon told us that "legal systems don't really defend designers at all" and designers should turn from mass production oversees to localised manufacture and digital production to overcome the threat to their businesses. See all our stories about Emeco chairs » See all our stories about copying in design »Furniture : Seating : Dining & Side Chairs : 111 Navy Chair Recycled Chair Made from 111 Coca-Cola PET Bottles The Coca-Cola Company and Emeco, have combined their iconic products, the Coca-Cola contour bottle package and the famous Navy® Chair, to create a new chair made from at least 111 recycled plastic bottles. Modeled after the original aluminium Emeco Navy Chair (#1006) designed in 1944 for the U.S. Navy, each 111 Navy Chair contains a mix of 60 percent rPET plastic and a special combination of other materials including pigment and glass fiber for strength. In 2006, Coca-Cola came to Emeco with a proposal. Their recycling plant in Spartanburg South Carolina was brand new and processing thousands of plastic bottles a day and they were looking for ways to show the value of recycled plastic.
Requiring a state-of-art mold, the new 111 Navy Chair™ includes the original stretcher (structural brace) below the seat. This detail not only assures authenticity, but creates great structural integrity. The 111 Navy Chair™ carries a 5-Year structural guarantee. The new chair has a distinctive, “velvet” finish that is scratch resistant. The new chair passes California and UK Fire Codes, along with BIFMA structural testing for commercial use. When you recycle a plastic bottle, you're doing something good. When you recycle 111 of them, you're doing something great. Help your bottle become something extraordinary again. Available in six colors: Red, Snow, Flint Gray, Grass Green, Persimmon Orange and Charcoal. Snow, Flint and Red can be used outdoors. At least 111 rPET plastic bottles per chair. W 15.5" D 19.5" H 34" | W 39cm D 50cm H 86cm Seat Height: 18" | Delivery Time:Approx. 6-8 weeksSubstitution for Emeco Chairs? Good Questions: Substitution for Emeco Chairs?
We lust after Emeco chairs for our dining room (above, right), but at $395 a pop, buying six of them seems a little extreme. We just got the new CB2 catalog in the mail, and saw their "bandit chair" (above, left), which is obviously inspired by Emeco. The price is definitely better ($119), but we don't have a CB2 nearby and I'm curious if you or any of your readers have had hands on experience with these chairs. If we love Emeco, will we feel like cheapskates for the next decade for buying the Bandit? (Note: Include a pic of your problem and your question gets posted first. Email questions and pics with QUESTIONS in subject line to: newyork(at)apartmenttherapy(dot)com) Clay — we first want to point you in the direction of the DWR Dining Sale that lets you save 15% off the purchase of 6 or more dining chairs (you can even mix and match!). Why not get 2 of the Emeco chairs you lust after and complete the 6 with 4 of CB2's Bandit? This will save you money and you won't feel like you sacrificed your top choice.