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I am the VERY proud owner o a 59 Navy chair ound in a pile o rubble on the

grounds o St. Elizabeths Hospital here in Washington, DC. It is the loveliest thing I

own. Period. Please keep ghting or your truly American product. Thank you.

Polly Brown, New York, Oct 11, 2012


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FIRSTLETS MAKE

THINGSTHAT LAST.The Emeco 1006 Navy Chair was rst commissioned in the 1940s by the U.S. Navy

or use on warships the contract even specied that it had to be able to withstandtorpedo blasts. Today our chairs are still made in the U.S.A., o 80% recycled aluminum,

and are made by hand, by Emeco cratsmen using the original 77 step process. The

worlds best architects and designers collaborate with us to design chairs that are

built and guaranteed to last a lietime.

As we apply what weve practiced in the past, we are looking toward the uture. We

are on a mission to make a positive impact on the environment. Our goals are to use

waste material in our products, use as little energy as possible in our manuacturing,

generate a minimum o waste in the process, and build strong, durable, beautiul

chairs that last through generations. Weve been on the same mission since 1944 and

we will continue to search or new ways to recover and utilize discarded materials

and make products that last.


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1006 Navy Barstools and

111 Navy Chairs in Charcoal

Tramshed Restaurant, East London

Design by Waugh Thistleton

Photographed by Katherine Rose

1006 Navy Barstools and

111 Navy Chairs in Charcoal

Tramshed Restaurant, East London

Design by Waugh Thistleton

Photographed by Katherine Rose


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111 Navy Chairs in Charcoal and 1006 Navy Chairs.

Google Headquarters, Covent Garden, London

Design by Penson

Photographed by David Barbour


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UPCYCLED PLASTIC BOTTLES.

We get the most out o the material we use. For years, that material

was aluminum. We developed a way to work with it to make products

o extraordinary strength, durability and beauty. It took us a long timeto nd a new material that could inspire us the way that aluminum

does, and even more time to develop the new material we now use or

the 111 Navy Chair. Its strong, durable, and it has a deep beauty that

people love when they touch it. And its made rom recycled plastic

bottles. In act, we called it the 111 Navy Chair because every chair we

make keeps 111 plastic bottles out o the landlls.


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GOOD,OLD-FASHIONED,AMERICAN

INNOVATION.


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111 Navy Chair

Starbucks Espresso Journey Tokyo, Japan.

Design by Nendo

Photograph by Daici Ano


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250 million tons o consumer waste and 7.6 billion tons o industrial waste are

generated annually in America alone. Emeco, in collaboration with Philippe Starck,

created a new material made rom 75% industrial waste polypropylene and 15%

reclaimed wood ber.

The result is the Broom chair, made using 90% pre-consumer industrial waste that

will never see the landll.

MADE OF 90%INDUSTRIAL WASTE.

Broom Chair

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Claypits Cottages, Scotney Castle, UK

Photography by Anthony Oliver


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POSITIVE DE-GROWTH.Making progress

without making waste.


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SOSO by JEAN NOUVELFrench designer Jean Nouvel drew upon his philosophy o nothingness to create

the simple, lightweight, Emeco Soso Collection o chairs and barstools. I just kept

the same Emeco DNA and evolved it into a new light and comortable chair. Working

with Emeco is like being in a eld o wheat. The crop is grown and my job was to

simply harvest, said Nouvel. The collection is handmade o 80% recycled aluminum,

by Emeco cratsmen using the same process Emeco has employed to abricate the

amous 1006 Navy Chair since 1944.

SOSO.


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NOT EASY.

SEZZ by CHRISTOPHE PILLETChristophe Pillet and Emeco collaborated to create chairs or the Sezz Hotel in St.

Tropez, where Pillet envisioned interiors with a sense o deep value a home away

rom home. The look is very subtle, but holds an unbelievable quality; you dont

see the welding, the recycled aluminum, the indestructibleness, they are all real but

invisible values, the hidden territory o a luxury product, said Pillet.

ITS SIMPLE.


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Sezz chair

Sezz Hotel Saint-Tropez, France

Design by Christophe Pillet

Photography by Anthony Lanneretonne


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SUSTAINABLY

HARVESTEDASH WOOD.

LANCASTER by MICHAEL YOUNGI eel passionate about working with

natural materials that live orever,

said Michael Young. The sustainably

harvested ash wood rame is crated

by Amish woodworkers in Lancaster,

Pennsylvania, U.S.A..


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Lancaster Barstools combining a

Dark Grey Nano Coat seat and back

with legs in Dark Ash Wood.

The Union Bar, Vancouver, Canada.

Design by Evoke International Design.

Photographed by Janis Nicolay.


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Hudson Polished Rocking Armchair

Ramses Restaurant Madrid, Spain

Design by Philippe Starck

Photograph by Luis Hevia


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Icon Polished Chairs & Hudson Polished Rockingchair

Miele Kitchen Showroom, Germany

ICON by STARCKIcon is a stacking chair cousin to the amous Starck-designed Hudson chair. It has

been used in hotels, bars and restaurants worldwide, as well as training centers,

meeting areas and schools. Starck describes Icon as the chair I see when I close my

eyes. You can expect your Icon chair to last 150 years or longer.


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FIRST PRINCIPLES.LASTING VALUES.

At Emeco, we are committed to the principles on which our company

and culture were built quality, excellence, trust, honesty and lastingvalue. Our rst product, the Navy Chair, was made to last a hundred

and ty years. It was light, smart, unctional and strong because

that was the best we could do. Much o what is manuactured today

is destined or the trash heap. Not so with Emeco our products are

handcrated to last, and the principles that built our rst chair still

guide us today.


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KONG by PHILIPPE STARCKPhilippe Starck designed the Kong chair and barstool

with Emecos strength and durability standards in

mind, or high-use environments like the Long Bar at

Londons Sanderson Hotel. Kong requires the hand

welding o 24 separate pieces o aluminum, and an

additional 8 hours o hand polishing.


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Kong Counter Stool

Baccarat World Headquarters, Paris, France

Design by Philippe Starck

Photo by Yann Delacour


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HERITAGEAGAINSTRECYCLING.

HERITAGE by PHILIPPE STARCKPhilippe Starck coined the saying Heritage Against Recycling and said this was

When you make something so well that it never has to be recycled. Starck designed

the Heritage collection as the stacking version o the 1006 Navy Chair.


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Emeco Stool

Oriental Residence Bangkok, Thailand

Design by Chanintr Living and Abacus Design

Photo by Oriental Residence Bangkok

EMECO STOOL by PHILIPPE STARCKSelected by The Museum o Modern Art or the Mies Van der Rohe in Berlin retro-

spective.


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TOUGH,LIGHTWEIGHT,

NEARLYINDESTRUCTIBLE.

20-06 by NORMAN FOSTERFoster said, I appreciate the anonymous character o the new chair tough, light-

weight it meshes seamlessly with our vision or interior space.

We are designers, we are cratsmen, we are citizens o the world. At Emeco we have

a higher purpose and we love a challenge. In act, the more dicult the problem, the

more inspired we are. One o the great challenges o our time is to do more with less,

to get more delight and utility out o the material and energy we are using. That idea

is at the core o the Emeco DNA. From the start, we made beautiul things that were

built to last, as light as possible. Material eciency. Enduring intelligence. Industrial

strength. Beauty. Today, these ideas inorm everything we do.


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20-06 Chairs, Armchairs and Tables

Winspeare Opera House, Dallas, US

Design by Foster + Partners

Photograph by Nigel Young


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SUPERLIGHT by FRANK GEHRYFrank Gehry had an idea or a chair that took advantage o aluminums exibility a chair that

conormed to the body and moved like a rocking chair.

COLLABORATINGWITH THEWORLDS

BEST.


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1951 by BMW DESIGNWORKSAs in good car-design, we added unctional elements to create a dynamic look that

appeals on an emotional level while projecting strength, said Adrian van Hooydonk,

o BMW.


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1951 Barstools

Huntington Park Stadium,

Columbus Ohio, US

Design by Suzanne Toney


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MORGANS by ANDRE PUTMANPutman said, I wanted to do or Emeco what Coco Chanel did with the little black

dress create a simple, sexy chair that never goes out o style. Designed or the 25th

anniversary renovation o the Morgans Hotel.

Morgans Chair, Morgans Hotel, NYC

Design by Agence Andre Putman

Photography by Eric Laignel


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I its not special, why should we do it? At Emeco, we are very selective about the

products we produce because we intend to make them or decades to come. We avoid

hot design ads or the latest trends. Like true love, our product is orever. We need

the best to inspire that commitment. Only a great idea will capture our imagination.

Only true love is worthy o our ull attention. Only the best intention will survive the

process o becoming an Emeco product. That is one o the reasons we work with the

best. They know what it means to have a great idea, and what it takes to make an

idea last orever.

A GREATIDEALASTSFOREVER.

NINE-0 by ETTORE SOTTSASSEttore Sottsass said, A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother

always told me to ofer my chair to a lady.


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Nine-0 BarstoolsBrown University Science Center, ProvidenceDesign by Bergmeyer Associates, Inc.Photography by Warren Jagger


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Denis Tangen Published by Emeco

www.emeco.net

805 West Elm Avenue

Hanover, Pennsylvania 17331, USA

[email protected]

2013, Emeco.

Editor: Gregg Buchbinder.

Art Direction: Miki Less.

Photography 2013, Mikio Sekita, Anthony Oliver.

All rights reserved.

Printed by Elanders, Sweden.


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