
Emeco
Company
To Emeco, it's about purpose. It's coming up with solutions for turning waste materials into simple, useful and timeless chairs. Together with some of the world's leading architects and designers, we make the best furniture possible that also sit lightly on the planet. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Re-imagine.
Made in American often by hand, the company started in 1944 during World War II with an iconic design, the Navy 1006 chair, still used throughout the world today. After the war, Emeco started selling 1006 chairs to prisons, hospitals and government offices becoming a fixture in American landscape. The company has expanded their resources to other materials from aluminum, to recycled bottles, recycled factory waste and from repurposed Amish barns in making chairs, table and stools for a lasting purpose and ever-lasting design offering a wide array of unique products with a story behind every design.