December 2008
Emeco, the aluminum chair company, has announced that Morgans, a chair by Andrée Putman will make its world debut during Maison & Objet, the Paris furniture fair January 2009.
Putman was entrusted to re-imagine Morgans with an all-aluminum side chair, tested to carry over 1000 pounds, yet weighing only 7 pounds itself.
Like all Emeco chairs, Morgans is made using a proprietary 77-Step process of 80% recycled aluminum and made at the historic Emeco factory in Hanover Pennsylvania.
Andrée Putman specified 300 of the new chairs in the high gloss white chairs for the Morgans guest rooms, installed just before New York Fashion Week 2008.
Morgans and contribute an exclusive chair for the project. This time she combined the DNA of the Mallet-Stevens chair with Emeco's 1006 Navy chair to create a merger of both and at the same time, something wholly new.
Putman described the new chair as "the soul mate" of the Mallet-Stevens chair that originally made Morgans its home.
Gregg Buchbinder, Emeco's chairman remembers the first project meeting, "Andrée arrived in the 6 inch stilettos - she is the most stylish woman I have ever known. She told me she wanted to do with for the Emeco chair what her friend Coco Channel did with the 'little black dress' - create a simple, smart, sexy chair that never goes out of style."
Named for the project, Morgans is an all-aluminum side chair, tested to carry over 1000 pounds, yet weighing only 7 pounds itself. Like all Emeco chairs, Morgans is made using a proprietary 77-Step process of 80% recycled aluminum and made at the historic Emeco factory in Hanover Pennsylvania.
Putman specified 300 of the new chairs in the high gloss white chairs for the Morgans guest rooms, installed just before New York Fashion Week 2008. Mr. Buchbinder said, "The Morgans project gave us another opportunity to regenerate our 1006 Navy chair- this time with the Doyenne of Design."
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