Emeco Icon Chair

“My idea for the new Emeco chair was to design nothing, just transmit the phenomenon of Emeco. The new design is balanced, minimal and coherent; there is serenity. When I close my eyes and think of a chair, I think of this chair -- it is an Icon” Philippe Starck

100% aluminium. Icon is available as a stacking chair and barstool in hand brushed and hand polished aluminum finishes.

Dimensions:

ICON STACKING CHAIR
W 17.5" 44 cm
D 20.75" 53 cm
H 33" 84 cm
SH 18" 46 cm

ICON COUNTER STOOL
W 18" 46 cm
D 20" 51 cm
H 37" 94 cm
SH 24" 61 cm

ICON BARSTOOL
W 20.75" 53 cm
D 21.25" 54 cm
H 43" 109 cm
SH 29.5" 75 cm

Gregg Buchbinder, Emeco’s Chairman recalls, “Working with Starck is like making love. I don’t know why it feels so good or works so well, I just follow my heart. It’s marriage of craft and intuition. Starck and Emeco have a wonderful love affair.”

“I use Emeco chairs in many projects and have always had many ideas I wanted to try with Emeco,” said Mr. Starck. “Hermes is to leather as Emeco is to aluminum -- an incredible material I love. Emeco has a heritage of craftsmanship. Working with Gregg has allowed me to use a recycled material and transform it into something that never needs to be discarded. A tireless and unbreakable chair to use and enjoy for a lifetime. It is a chair you never own, you just use it for a while until it is the next persons turn. A great chair never should have to be recycled. This is good consideration of nature and mankind.”

Icon is available as a stacking chair and barstool in hand brushed and hand polished aluminum finishes.

Icon is built at the historic factory in Hanover, Pennsylvania, using Emeco’s proprietary 77-Step Process -- unchanged since 1944. With a content of 80% recycled aluminum, Icon meets LEED ™ criteria for an environmentally sound product.

“An honest, enthusiastic citizen of today's world, Philippe Starck considers it his duty to share with us his subversive vision of a better world which is his alone and yet which fits up like a glove. The world's museums are unerring. Paris, New York, Munich, London, Chicago, Kyoto, Barcelona - all exhibit his work as that of a master.

Prizes and awards are showered on him: designer of the year, Grand Prix for Industrial Design, the Oscar for Design, Officier des Arts et des Lettres, and many more. Always and everywhere, he seems to understand better than any other our dreams, our desires, our needs, and our responsibility to the future, as well the overriding need to respect his fellow citizens by making his work a political and a civic act,” writes Ed Mae Cooper.

Designer: Philippe Starck, 2006.
Manufacturer: Emeco

Emeco Icon Chair

X3 Chair

Inspired by Harry Bertoia's sculptural metal grid, X3 combines form and innovation.
Stacks 15 on the floor
Comfortable with unique flex in the back
Ideal for cafe, residential and educational applications

Construction
X3 is a one-piece shell, obtained by the bi-injection of transparent polycarbonate and a desmopan colored lattice
The complex molding technology, applied for the first time to furniture, brings a unique, versatile effect to the chair
Chrome plated steel base

Finishes
Available in five fresh colors: Tangerine, Sapphire, Lime, Clear Silver and Clear Gold

Designer: Marco Maran
Manufacturer: Knoll

Stacking Chairs

Yuko Chair

YUKO is an elegant chair, made entirely of aluminium, which we could define as “also folding” on account of the formal and technical decisiveness achieved by the project. Solid and aesthetically sophisticated in the linearity of the profile, YUKO is an object with an excellent design, whether seen open or closed. Desalto are therefore introducing in the catalogue their first folding chair, which is distinguished by the neatness of the project and above all for being so comfortable, which makes it particularly suited also to a business supplies market. Indeed, the possibility of folding it away, considerably reducing its encumbrance, makes it ideal for bars and premises with outdoor spaces. The chair has extruded aluminium legs, die-cast back and die-cast aluminium plate seat.

Measurements:
OPENED L 48cm x P 48,5cm x H 75cm, H seduta 44cm
CLOSED L 88,5cm x P 12cm (total depth including backrest)

Finishes: polished aluminium, painted aluminium and opaque black.

Designer: Pierluigi Cerri
Year: 2006

Wok Chair

A complete and versatile chair system with moulded acrylic body, with polished or transparent finish, also available in the versions covered in hide or leather. The large Wok family has chairs with a four legged base, with a continuous steel rod leg, or with a single swivel leg Chromed steel or stainless steel structure. Well suited for the home and the office, it is also for external use and lends itself well to becoming the show-piece of Desalto’s proposals for the business supplies market.

Non transparent colours: black, white.
Transparent colours: neutral (similar to glass) and smoke grey.

Measurements: L 52 cm, D 45 cm, H 82 cm, seat H 46 cm.

Designer: Pocci-Dondoli
Year: 2006

Trace armchair

Small armchair with an unmistakable design, made of a single plastic body and brushed or chromed stainless steel structure, it has met with great success and is already a new icon of Desalto production. What is new is the swivel version on a single leg, which joins the stackable one on four legs. Trace is also suitable for outdoor use and, in the new swivel version, for use in the office.
In the version with swivel base, it is available with white or polished aluminium structure. It’s available also in the version with a continuous steel rod leg.

For greater comfort, the new leather or ecopiel cushion has also been introduced.

Measurements: L 52.5 cm, D 58 cm, H 76 cm, seat H 65.5 cm

Seat colour: white or black.

Designer: Shin Azumi
Year: 2004