Move over Deep Throat, this morning in our email, we found pictures of the new Philipe Starck / Emeco stacking chair - dubbed Icon - that is coming out in April at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile. We also found this airy quote from Starck:
My idea for the new Emeco chair was to design nothing, just transmit the phenomenon of Emeco. The new design is balanced, coherent and minimal; there is serenity. When I close my eyes and think of a chair, I think of this chair - it is an Icon."
Boy, is he good (at PR). Anyone who can say "design nothing" in a sentence and yet consistently turn out hot chairs for Emeco makes us jealous. But seriously, although we have some issues with Starck's ubiquitous creations, his work with Emeco has been terrific.
Icon will retail for $360, will be made at the Emeco factory in Hanover, PA, and consists of 80% recycled aluminum, which means that it meets the LEED criteria for an environmentally sound product. (Thanks, DT!)
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ohdearGOD I love this.
(and that's a REALLY decent price point for a Starck/Emeco collaboration...)
So simple. I like it. The Emeco site is great too.
Looks great but how comfy it can be with that single bar across the back. I guess - no pain no gain.
that is SO sexy....... i mean SEXY, right?
I'm with kristian on this.. I can't stop looking at it.
In a leering, lustful, covetous way.
Makes me want to cheat on my Hudson chair.
Chairs like this with the single high bar for a back are always extremely uncomfortable, even though they might look good. Bad design really.
Depends on where the bar hits you. Besides, this is not going to be the chair you spend hours in/on, necessarily...
Sorry, this is still a BIG winner, perhaps even if only superficially, for me.
did you look at the site? i love those chairs with the plastic seat and back too.... how cool are they? AND the web site says they are cheeper..... whatever that means. I'd love to get a price on a set of those.
....and, in my humble experience, Sexy, and Comfortable rarely go together.....
NOW, i know where you've been, Patrick... Waiting for this contest to end so we can get back to beautiful furniture.....I've got you number now. ;-)
No, I'm really digging the art contest too! Honest!!
But yes, I am a sucker for a strong back and great legs. Chairs, too! ;)
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Oh. My. God. I had no idea that Emeco was doing a new chair. Agree with all the positive comments above--seriously drool-worthy. And $360 retail? Wow... Frank Gehry who? Superlight what?
It's like a simple more elegant gesture-drawing version of the Goodform Chair Co. chairs from the 40's and 50's.
And they stack? That's brilliant, because with stackable chairs you sell a load of them at once. Can't you just see a room full of these lined up in semi-circular rows with the light hitting the entire lot of them slightly differently at each end of the rows like so many links on layered necklace chains?
Thanks, Luigi!
OMG... that's the strapless, absolutely plain, perfectly fitted, designer evening gown of chairs. Audrey Hepburn should be sitting in it.
While I'll usually vote for comfort, I know how often anyone sits in my dining chairs for any length of time. It's not long enough to care.
I will say, though, that sometimes I find the brushed aluminum finish on Emeco (and other) chairs to be a little skeevy to the touch (no fault of the manufacturer.. just something about how "dry" the finish feels).
But still, this chair is WAY up on my chair Top Ten list...
I want this. Bad.
We just scored 'em.
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