Emeco with Gehry:
A Collaboration in Support of the Hereditary Disease Foundation
“Tuyomyo”: One-of-a-Kind
Hanover, Pennsylvania, USA—Emeco, the premier manufacturer of aluminum chairs, and renowned architect Frank Gehry have collaborated once again, this time in the development a one-of-a-kind large scale bench which will be presented during the Salone del Mobile in Milan, April 22-27 2009. Named Tuyomyo, this is the second time Emeco and Gehry have cooperated on a project, the first being the creation of the all-aluminum Superlight chair launched at the Salone in 2004 and recently accepted into the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent design collection.
Tuyomyo, a unique work of art by Frank Gehry, will be auctioned in June, 2009, to create a million dollar fund to honor Frank’s late daughter. Called the Leslie Gehry Brenner Award for Innovation in Science of the Hereditary Disease Foundation, this prize will make possible the best and most cutting edge research to find treatments and cures for genetic and brain disorders. (For more information, call the Hereditary Disease Foundation at 212-543-5667.)
Frank Gehry’s mandate was simple,
“The form has to be free and light. It must be structural,
and at the same time poetic. And a little dangerous.”
Using 80% recycled aluminum components and aircraft manufacturing technology, as well as hand craftsmanship – this exclusive Tuyomyo bench further reinforces Gehry’s intuitive design vision and Emeco’s expertise in crafting aluminum. Gehry developed ideas for the bench during the time he worked on the Superlight chair for Emeco in 2004. What started as a sketching of ideas has become a conceptual project for the company and one that will raise funds and awareness for the Hereditary Disease Foundation.
“We didn’t start with the intention of making a product – we wanted to explore the possibility of using huge pieces of aluminum to make a large scale project. Once we really got into it, we found we were onto something amazing and Frank suggested we use it to support his Foundation,” said Gregg Buchbinder, Emeco’s Chairman. “Combining CNC equipment with traditional hand craft, we were able to make a three meter long wing of polished aluminum. The trouble was making the wing strong enough to cantilever over the truss and remain stable. That’s when we found an aircraft part manufacturer with huge solution tempering furnaces that made it super strong. But it took many trials and failures to get it right. Each time the result was unpredictable – like Raku ceramic firing – the aluminum took its own, unique organic form. When we saw the final bench though, we knew we had fulfilled Frank’s directive and we thought maybe we could use even these ideas for a future product”
Buchbinder used the opportunity to find a way to manipulate and temper large pieces of aluminum for use in future product designs. The result is sculptural bench, a wholly new form – and an attempt to use design for the common good.
Frank and Berta Gehry were founding trustees of the Hereditary Disease Foundation in 1968. They are deeply passionate about and committed to its mission – to cure genetic and brain disorders. The project for the new Emeco bench fulfilled Gehry’s desire to design something unique that will benefit the Leslie Gehry Brenner Award for Innovation in Science of the Hereditary Disease Foundation. The Hereditary Disease Foundation stands at the forefront of scientific ingenuity and progress, sparking critical innovative discoveries since its founding by Dr. Milton Wexler when his wife was diagnosed with Huntington's disease, a hereditary brain disorder.
“There are wonderful similarities between Frank’s and Emeco’s creativity and scientific innovation and discovery. Genius in science and art involves letting go and seeing new possibilities. We are very happy about this collaboration!” said Nancy Wexler, President, Hereditary Disease Foundation
The special Tuyomyo Bench has gone through many changes during various stages of development since the team began working on the project last summer. The final all-aluminum bench features a three meter (9 ft.) hand polished “wing” of offset trapezoids supported by a brushed “truss”. It weighs only 55.3 Kg (122 lbs.) Tuyomyo will be presented by Emeco at the Salone Del Mobile in Milan in April 2009, Hall 12, Stand C10.
Frank Gehry
Born in Canada in 1929, Mr. Gehry has become a naturalized U.S. citizen. In 1954, he graduated from USC and after a year in the army, he was admitted to Harvard Graduate School of Design to study urban planning. He returned to Los Angeles and stayed until 1960. In 1961, Mr. Gehry moved to Paris where he worked and studied works by LeCorbusier, Balthasar Neumann, and was attracted by the French Roman churches. In 1962, he returned to Los Angeles, setting up his own firm. Mr. Gehry won Architecture’s prestigious 1989 Pritzker Prize. He is the architect of some of the most important buildings in the past half-century, including Guggenheim Bilbao and Disney Hall Los Angeles.
Hereditary Disease Foundation
The Hereditary Disease Foundation stands at the forefront of scientific ingenuity and progress, sparking critical innovative discoveries since its founding 1968 by Dr. Milton Wexler when his wife was diagnosed with Huntington's disease, a hereditary brain disorder.
Frank and his wife, Berta, were founding Trustees in 1968 and continue to play active roles in the Foundation – Frank as Vice-President, Berta as Treasurer. Tuyomyo, a unique work of art by Frank Gehry, will be auctioned in December, 2009, to create a million dollar fund honoring Frank’s late daughter, called the Leslie Gehry Brenner Award for Innovation in Science of the Hereditary Disease Foundation.
Genes reveal our past and shape our future. The genetic revolution is making the conquest of hereditary disease a real possibility today. A few of the Hereditary Disease Foundation’s landmark achievements:
1983 – The Hereditary Disease Foundation is the first to use DNA markers to discover the neighborhood of the Huntington’s disease gene. This breakthrough helped launch the Human Genome Project.
1993 – The Hereditary Disease Foundation’s Gene Hunters – over 100 scientists who collaborated for a decade – capture the most coveted prize, the Huntington’s disease gene itself!
1993 to today – The Hereditary Disease Foundation uses this genetic knowledge to develop model systems – in single cells, yeast, worms, flies, mice – to discover and test new drugs.
Emeco
Emeco was founded in 1944 to make all-aluminum chairs for the US Navy. Gregg Buchbinder purchased the company in 1998 and began a friendship and association with the renowned French architect, Philippe Starck, creating a series of products that united Emeco's historic manufacturing capabilities with Starck's classic designs for a new century. In 2000, Starck's Hudson chair for Emeco won the GOOD DESIGN Award and was inducted into the permanent design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 2004, Emeco collaborated with the American architect Frank O Gehry on Superlight, a chair that utilizes aluminum's ability to be both strong and flexible. Gehry's chair won another GOOD DESIGN award in 2004 and was included in collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Pinakothek der Modern in Munich. In 2007 Emeco’s collaboration with Norman Foster “20-06” debuted at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile and won another GOOD DESIGN award, as well as a 2007 Spark Design Award. In 2008, Emeco launched the Nine-O collection by Ettore Sottsass – the last design by Mr. Sottsass who died in 2007 at the age of 90, in January of this year launched Morgans by Andrée Putman.
From a workforce of 15 craftsmen in 1999, Emeco has grown five times and recently instated a second manufacturing shift for the first time in 25 years. Emeco has made over 1,000,000 1006 Navy® chairs since 1944 and now sells its all-aluminum furniture in 50 countries.
Presented by Emeco at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, April 22 -27 2009, Hall 12, Stand C10.
For more information, visit www.emeco.net or contact dan@emeco.net. For more information about the Hereditary Disease Foundation, call 212-543-5667 or visit www.hdfoundation.org or contact cures@hdfoundation.org.
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Antiques: Made in Pa., Gehry's sleek Tuyomyo bench
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Posted on Friday, June 12, 2009
By Karla Klein Albertson, Inquirer Antiques Columnist
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