Broom Chair by EmecoBy / Published by – June 18, 2012The chair comes in six colors—grey, green, natural, orange, white and yellow—and retails for $195. @dianabuddsA New York-based writer, Diana studied art history and environmental policy at UC Davis. Before rising to Senior Editor at Dwell—where she helped craft product coverage, features, and more—Diana worked in the Architecture and Design departments at MoMA and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She counts finishing a 5K as one of her greatest accomplishments, gets excited about any travel involving trains, and her favorite magazine section is Rewind. Download our iOS AppAdvertise on DwellMake chairs lightweight and make them strong, build them for a lifetime. That is Emeco’s mission. Aluminum is the obvious choice, engineered for practical purposes, designed by real people. Forming, welding, grinding, heat-treating, finishing, anodizing are just a few of the 77 steps it takes to build an Emeco chair. No one else makes chairs this way.
It takes a human eye to know when the process is done right, and it takes human hands to get it that way. Their goal: Make recycling obsolete and keep making things that last. In 2006 Coca-Cola and Emeco collaborated to solve an environmental problem: Up-cycling consumer waste into a sustainable, timeless, classic chair. Made of 111 recycled PET bottles, the 111 Navy Chair is a story of innovation. GR Shop offers the Navy chair in many fun colours and almost 100 other Emeco chairs and tables. Price: Low to High Price: High to Low Emeco Kong Barstool With Arms Emeco Navy Counter Stool With Natural Wood Seat Emeco Lancaster Stacking Chair Emeco Navy Upholstered Arm Chair Emeco Occasional Table TABL-24 Emeco Navy Semi-Upholstered Swivel Arm Chair Emeco Hudson Swivel Arm Chair Emeco Heritage Rocking Chair Emeco 20-06 Bar Stool Emeco Navy Counter Stool Emeco Kong Counter Stool With Arms Emeco Navy Chair With Natural Wood Seat
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Emeco Navy Semi-Upholstered Arm Chair Emeco 1951 Counter Stool Emeco Hudson Counter Stool With Arms Emeco Icon Counter Stool Emeco Hudson Swivel Chair Emeco Nine-0 Stacking Counter Stool Emeco 20-06 Counter Stool Emeco Navy Arm ChairI found out via their press release that Emeco, the manufacturer of those cool industrial looking aluminum chairs, is going to have their first ever beginning June 18, 2009 (that's tomorrow!).I thought this was a perfect opportunity for me to show you the many famous designers with whom they've collaborated and their many collections. In doing a little research I was happy to find that Emeco has a deep, informative site from which I could pull some wonderful quotes and sketches for you in addition to product shots. So, check them out.Emeco, The Aluminum Chair Company, announces its first sale in 65 years. Every product at the Emeco site, will be marked down 15% and standard shipping is free in North America. The sale includes designs and options that are only available from Emeco.
The sale will start on June 18 and run though July 9 2009. Many products will ship within two weeks.Emeco makes all aluminum chairs, kitchen stools and barstools of 80% recycled material, and they are considered a green product according to the LEED criteria. Many chairs and stools stack - saving space, and most can be used outdoors. Seat pads are available on most chairs and stools, and Emeco recently reissued a Navy chair with a solid wood seat, first built in the 1950's. All products are made in Hanover Pennsylvania.Emeco was founded in 1944 to make all-aluminum chairs for the US Navy. These indestructible chairs can be found in applications from prisons and submarines to restaurants, hotels and even kitchens. Gregg Buchbinder purchased the company in 1998 and began a friendship and association with the renowned French architect, Philippe Starck (who made the drawing of his Hudson chair, shown below, for Greg) , creating a series of products that united Emeco's historic manufacturing capabilities with Starck's classic designs for a new century."
" - Philippe StarckStarck sketches and chairs for Emeco:above: Philippe Starck with his Icon chair for EmecoIn 2000, Starck's Hudson chair for Emeco won the GOOD DESIGN Award and was inducted into the permanent design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.In 2004, Emeco collaborated with the American architect Frank Gehry on Superlight, a chair that utilizes aluminum's ability to be both strong and flexible."." - Frank GehryGehry's sketches and chairs for Emeco:above: Gehry discussing the Superlight chair with Emeco owner Gregg BuchbinderGehry's chair won another GOOD DESIGN award in 2004 and was included in collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Pinakothek der Modern in Munich.In 2007 Emeco's collaboration with Norman Foster "20-06" debuted at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile and won another GOOD DESIGN award, as well as a 2007 Spark Design Award."." - Norman FosterFoster & Partners' sketches and chairs for Emeco:above: Norman Foster and his chair for Emeco.In 2008, Emeco launched the Nine-O collection by Ettore Sottsass - the last design by Mr. Sottsass who died in 2007 at the age of 90."" - Ettore SottsassMr.
Sottsass' collaboration with Emeco began in Chicago eight years ago when Gregg Buchbinder, Emeco's Chariman, met him at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. "The minute we met, Ettore told me he was an admirer of the Navy chair and in fact wished he had designed it. And we agreed, why not re- design it," remembers Mr. Buchbinder. "I had seen Sottsass' projects in Domus magazine over the years – Esprit, the Amazon Express yacht - in which he had used our chair. Ettore was the first designer who took our chairs out of their typical environments -navy ships prisons, hospitals- and to use them in contemporary interior design projects. Through him Sir Terence Conran, Frank Gehry and Philippe Starck discovered the Emeco chair creating resurgence in the 1990's. It was only right to commission him to celebrate Emeco's resurrection with a new collection."Ettore Sottsass sketches and chairs for Emeco:above: the late Ettore Sottsass with Emeco owner, BuchbinderIn January of this year, Emeco launched Morgans, a chair by Andrée Putman designed for the restoration of the Morgans Hotel NYC.