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From Milan Furniture Fair 2004: "Aluminium chair by Gehry for Emeco"Domus Mgazine.
Frank O Gehry has designed the Superlight chair in anodised aluminium for Emeco, the company with which he worked with last year. The chair is characterized by a horizontal pivot movement to improve the comfort of the chair. In a video on show at pavilion 20 filmed in the workshop in which the prototype was tried out with the artisans, Gehry explains the concept behind this piece.
The dimensions of the chair are 42cm wide by 52 deep, height 81cm, seat height 46cm.
The Emeco chairs are in 80% recycled aluminium which means that the energy consumed to produce them is at least seventeen times less than when new aluminium is used. They are made completely by hand, welded by MIG (Material Electrode Inert Gas Method), after which the chair results as a single piece without mechanical connections. Afterwards they are subjected to a heat treatment at 520°C that hardens them to give structural tension to the metal, followed by cooling and aging processes, the sandblasting that creates the satin finish and finally an anti-oxidisation for 30 minutes for the final protection.
Emeco products are known for their lightness, robustness, water resistance and durability.
The Emeco Aluminium Chair Company was set up in 1944 to produces for the US Marines chairs for ship
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