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"I wanted three things in this chair: comfort, light weight, and strength.
Aluminum was the obvious choice and Emeco was the only company that could make
it. It’s been a fun project, and amazingly quick – just 11 months from the first
meeting with Gregg to the Milan introduction. Gio Ponti’s Superleggera chair was
the inspiration – and I’ve always wanted to design a super lightweight chair. I
tried to extract the essence – structure and skin, where engineering and design
are one thing. SUPERLIGHT is a chair that moves to accommodate all body types-
the sitter activates the chair. And we got it down to 6 ½ pounds, and that makes
it easier for a lot more people to use and move around."
- Frank Gehry
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