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"A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady"
- Ettore Sottsass
Mr. 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."
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