Al

It’s classic, lightweight, and incredibly durable. Pull up your choice of short, medium or tall and you’ll be sitting pretty wherever you go.

Ideas welcome. Share your thoughts and wish list.

  1. Robin Hendrick Lane said, on July 23, 2010 at 5:02pm

    Hi, Dan.  Thanks for your comments. This chair is one of many designs (The LA Times recently pointed out others sold by Sundance, and Crate and Barrel. See http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2010/04/the-look-for-less-the-emeco-navy-barstool-vs-sundance-and-crate-barrel-catalog-copycats-.html ) similar to Emeco’s unpatented Navy Chair. We don’t claim any approval or association to Emeco, and we don’t claim to use the same construction methods. We do value honesty in all of our communications and look forward to showing the world our own Sparkeology chair designs soon.

  2. Atlanta Rep said, on July 22, 2010 at 5:22pm

    Hi Dan. As I was the rep in Atlanta traveling with someone from Sparkeology, I can assure you we did not tell any designer that Emeco “approved” the chair. We presented it as a Sparkeology chair. A few designers referenced your product as it reminded them of your chair, but we assured them that is was a Sparkeology chair. It seems to me you have much “a do” about nothing.

  3. Dan Fogelson said, on July 21, 2010 at 5:01pm

    i just heard that your sales rep in Atlanta was trying to sell this awful knock-off at an architecture firm - said Emeco had approved it! Hey, whats that? Its bad enough that you are selling a Grand Rapids Chair company product as your own, but dont get Emeco involved. why not put the creative power you disply elsewhere on this site to better use and do your own chair? or sell ours? we make them in PA, which can use the work too. get rid of GRP,  they are not worth lowering your ethical standards.

  4. Margaux VerMeulen said, on June 13, 2010 at 5:09pm

    I love this chair! I’m so glad that you’re ordering from a local manufacturer, lord knows Michigan can use all the help they can get!

  5. Robin Hendrick Lane said, on June 13, 2010 at 4:03pm

    This retro design has been the inspiration for many chairs available on the market today.  When we spotted this design in the catalog of Grand Rapids Chair, we felt it was an ideal way to round out our initial offering while supporting a local supplier.  We plan to release completely new chair designs in the near future.

  6. Emeco said, on June 12, 2010 at 7:07pm

    So you are disclaiming the responsibility for stealing the Navy chair and placing it on an unnamed “West Michigan supplier”?

  7. Robin Hendrick Lane said, on June 11, 2010 at 5:09pm

    Much as we admire it, we’ll have to attribute Al’s design to a local supplier in West Michigan, who created it for a restaurant chain in the 1990s. Its materials and sleek lines made it a natural fit for other pieces in our line.

  8. adam beasley said, on June 11, 2010 at 12:02pm

    was emeco an inspiration for this?