Emeco - Hudson Chair

The Hudson Chair is an award honoured aluminium chair from the star designer Philippe Starck. The US-American manufacturer Emeco produces the chair in an usual quality.

The Hudson Chair design emerged in the year 2000. Shortly before that, Emeco began a tight cooperation with the designer Philippe Starck, this one designed several products for the American company. Including the Hudson Chair, this was designed initially for the Hudson Hotel in New York.

Hudson Chair is a neutral version of the classic Navy Chair from Emeco. Philippe Starck shaped the design compact, pure and reduced, and in absolute harmony with the Emeco Company spirit. Because of its simple and beautiful design, the Hudson Chair was honoured with the Good Design Award in the year 2000 becoming part of the constant collection of the Modern Art Museum in New York one year later.

As well as with its other products, Emeco puts emphasis on high quality handwork with the Hudson Chair. Several trained employees need many working hours to produce only one Hudson aluminium Chair. This has the consequence that the chair not only is high class processed, durable and robust but every specimen becomes to be unique.

Emeco’s Hudson Chair is also available in a brushed aluminium version, or in a special powder coated version. Furthermore this chair can be demanded as an arm-rest chair, as a stool, a bar stool, a rocking-chair and a swivel-chair on request. Every version can be ordered as an arm-rest chair.

Design: Philippe Starck

The French designer Philippe Patrick Starck is deemed to be the pop star under designers. He was born in the year 1949 in Paris and like no other he has coined the contemporaneous everyday culture with his design. Designer Philippe Starck

Honoured with: Good Design Award

The Museum’s historic Good Design program originated in Chicago in 1950 and was organized by Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr., former curator of the Museum of Modern Art. Designaward Good Design Award

Honoured with: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

The first address in modern art... in 1929 the Museum of Modern Art opened its doors for the first time. Since that time the museum in New York belongs to the most important collections of modern art and design. Designaward Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)