Philippe Starck adds stools made from recycled materials to his Broom collection for Emeco
Milan 2014: Philippe Starck has developed a counter stool and bar stool to complement the Broom Chair he designed for American furniture brand Emeco using a material predominantly made from industrial waste.
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Starck created the original Broom Chair for Emeco in 2012 to showcase the properties of a new wood-plastic composite developed to utilise resources discarded by lumber factories and industrial plastic plants.
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The material is produced from 75% waste polypropylene and 15% waste wood fibres that are ground and compressed into pellets before being mixed with glass fibres and melted so it can be injected into a mould.
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Emeco has introduced stools in two heights – a bar stool and counter stool – that are produced using the same simple one-piece "mono-block" construction as the original chair.
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The injection-moulding manufacturing process results in strong, rigid forms and the stools are produced using the same green, orange, white, yellow, dark grey and natural hues as the Broom Chair.
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"As we worked with Starck to design the Broom Barstool we kept in mind the limited space at a bar in a restaurant or hotel," said Emeco's vice president of product, Magnus Breitling. "We reduced the seat width while maintaining the comfort."
The curving shell of the chair has been translated into a seat with softer edges that merge with the legs of the stool.
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The stools were launched by Emeco at last month's Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, where the brand also presented a collection of stools and tables developed by Japanese studio Nendo.
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Emeco has a heritage of developing products using recycled material that dates back to its founding in 1944, when it developed the iconic Navy chair for the US government using recycled aluminium.
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As well as Starck, Emeco has collaborated on furniture projects with several leading architects and designers, including aluminium armchairs and stools designed by Jean Nouvel and a collection of tables and chairs for the Parrish Art Museum on Long Island by Konstantin Grcic.
In 2010, it launched a red version of the Navy chair made from 111 recycled cola bottles.