Emeco Goes Green : The 111 Coca Cola Pet Bottles Navy Chair

This photo from a post at Design Paris



The bottom of the seat reads:

When you recycle a plastic bottle, you’re doing something good. When you recycle 111 of them, you’re doing something great!

Firsts Emeco went nude, then they went light, then wood and now they are going red…err green:

Do Drink 111 Coca Cola Pet Bottles empty and bring them to Emeco who will use them for 60% of their reincarnated 111 Navy Chair. On Show in Milan Next week

Emeco:

After four years of work, we have created a new Navy Chair made of 111 recycled plastic PET bottles (about 65% post consumer content). We designed The 111 Navy Chair ® to have the attributes of the original aluminum version – super strong, durable and comfortable, but now its also warm, colorful and about half the price of the aluminum one (195₤). We expect to use about 3,000,000 plastic beverage bottles each year in production, which will start in June 2010.

Via David Report, a post that happened to disappear, but still remained readable in a Feed Reader.

FF1 Chair by Fox and Freeze

FF1 Chair by Fox & Freeze in white and grey

FF1 Chair by Fox & Freeze in white

FF1 Chair is a surprisingly strong and sturdy felt chair created with simply 1 square sheet of synthetic felt and flax ropes. The unique shape and structure gives it strength without any wood or metal. Also put in mind, almost no material was wasted(except the drilled holes) in the form of this chair. I really think that Fox & Freeze did a marvelous job designing this piece. FF1 is available in white and grey through Fox & Freeze’s. Also, check out the sturdiness of it through a strength test video on Youtube.

Udate:
Fox & Freeze is a collaboration between Belgian designers James van Vossel (a vos is Dutch for Fox) and Tom de Vrieze (freeze is an English translation of vriezen). Not every reader will be aware that Belgium is a two language country: Dutch in the more northern and western parts and French in the more eastern and southern parts that are closer to France.

Heel Chair by Nendo



Oki Sato of Nendo has a limited edition side line online shop which is called 1 % which is 1 out of 100. There, to the extent available, you can obtain this elegant Heel Chair which will only be made in a limited edition of 100.

Eames Chair Lovers should head over to Wright (4)

Time Life Chair by Charles and Ray Eames at Wright

Eames LCM at Wright

Preproduction Aluminum Group Chair by Charles and Ray Eames at Wright

I admit, I planned to devote only 3 posts to this special Eames Auction at Wright, but then it would have been 3 times 4 photos and now it is 4 times 3 photos, which esthetically I like better.

Note I stayed away from the Eames’s plastic designs which I simply do not like.

Eames Chair Lovers should head over to Wright (3)

Eames Black and White Cow Hide LCW at Wright

Eames Cow Hide LCW at Wright

Eames Compact Sofa over at Wright

Part 3 of my highlights of the April 8, 2010 dedicated Eames Auction over at Wright.

Cow Hide is soo beginning 60ies and totally back now after 50 years. I love it, but beware the impracticality of the cow hairs that get loose….