frank gehry: superlight for emeco

superlight’ by frank gehry

the project, a comfortable, lightweight and affordable aluminum chair called ‘superlight’
has been introduced in milan’s salone 2004. ‘I wanted three things in this chair: comfort,
light weight and strength,’ explains frank gehry. ‘aluminum was the obvious choice
and emeco was the only company that could make it. it’s been a fun project, and amazingly
quick – just 11 months from the first meeting with gregg to the milan introduction.’ he continues,
‘gio ponti’s superleggera chair was the inspiration – and I’ve always wanted to design a super
lightweight chair. I tried to extract the essence – structure and skin, where engineering and design
are one thing.