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Bergman Design Team presents Architecture & Design Film Festival 09 / 24-27 / 2009 A benefit for Yestermorrow Design / Build School Mad River Valley, Vermont |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Length: | 3 min. |
| Directors: | Eames Demetrios |
| Series: | Connecting Dots |
| Showtimes: | 9/25/2009 @ 3:00 PM 9/26/2009 @ 8:30 PM |
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This film captures the intensive process involved in crafting the famous Emeco Navy Chair. You’ve seen this chair all over the world—it is in the CSI interrogation room and a million movies. It is a deceptively simple looking chair which was originally designed in 1944 for the US Navy. It needed to be very light for use on shipboard, so they naturally turned to aluminum. But they also wanted it to be strong, so they developed a technique which literally realigns the molecules in the different pieces of aluminum into a single chemically cohesive whole. This process, which is unchanged since the 1940s, requires 77 steps to convert raw aluminum parts into one of the strongest chairs on the planet.
