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The Submarine Chair, part 1: Making of
By Rain Noe - Dec 14, 2010
People in submarines eventually need to sit down, and in 1944 aluminum company ALCOA collaborated with the U.S. Navy on the purpose-built 1006 Chair, also known as the Navy Chair or Submarine Chair. The design brief had at least one interesting bulletpoint: The chair had to be "torpedo-proof."
The resultant super-strong chair is still in production today, manufactured by aluminum chair company Emeco. For a fascinating look at how it's made, check out their 77-step process, starting from aluminum sheets and ending up with the finished product:
The video above is eight minutes and should be of interest to ID'ers because they call out each production method with on-screen notes. For those of you who already know this stuff, there's a frothier, shorter video using the same footage but edited down to about three minutes, sans call-outs, and scored with a jazzy soundtrack:
Rain Noe
Rain Noe is a writer and industrial designer based in New York City.
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.,..and good enough to be sold off as SCRAP metal by Uncle Sam - http://www.govliquidation.com/auction/view?auctionId=3935939&categoryId=e7917!Report as spam
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I believe that Ettore Sottsass admired the simple design of this Emeco chair and made a version based on the existing design.!Report as spam
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As mentioned in the credits, it deserves mention that this first film was produced not just in keeping with the excellently subtle, quiet, and supremely effective style of Charles and Ray eames's explanatory videos from the sixties and seventies, but also by their descendant, eames demetrios! Anybody know if that lineage was also responsible for a similarly clean, informative, and deep series of paper collateral marketing for emeco I picked up at design within reach a couple years ago?!Report as spam
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