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The Emeco 1006 Navy Chair for which the company is known was one of several furniture products made out of anodized aluminum, such as bunks and lockers, that Emeco made for the US Navy's fleet during World War II. [5] [6] The business grew by under-bidding other manufacturers on government contracts for office building furniture. By 1953, there ...
The Taylor Cos., a nearly 200-year-old company that bills itself as the oldest furniture manufacturer in the United States, announced that it plans to go out of business. August 8, 2012 [ 14 ] On September 18, 2012 the Gasser Chair Co. of Youngstown, Ohio announced that it had acquired the intellectual property of Taylor Chair Co.
The company is the licensed manufacturer of furniture designed by architects and designers such as Harry Bertoia, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, Florence Knoll, Frank Gehry, Charles Gwathmey, Maya Lin, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, and Lella and Massimo Vignelli, [3] under the company's KnollStudio division.
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The company was founded as a housewares manufacturer in 1932 by Theodore Baumritter and his brother-in-law Nathan S. Ancell. They bought a bankrupt furniture factory in Beecher Falls, Vermont in 1936 and adopted the name "Ethan Allen" for its early-American furniture introduced in 1939, after the Vermont Revolutionary War leader Ethan Allen.
Dillon was a pupil at Adcote School in Shropshire. She studied interior design at Manchester College of Art between 1961 and 1965, and subsequently in 1968, completed a Master's degree in furniture design at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London. Between 1968 and 1971, Dillon worked at Olivetti in Milan under Ettore Sottsass.
Michael was a German immigrant from Steinalben who immigrated to America in 1850, fought in the American Civil War, and established a furniture manufacturing company. [2] Reischmann lived in the eastern district of Brooklyn since 1872. [1] He began working for his father in 1880 and learned about cabinet making.
Charles Dillon was a British furniture designer. He and his wife, Jane Dillon ran an international design studio between 1971 and 1982 making significant contributions to furniture design and lighting design across America and Europe. Their studio archives are held at the Victoria and Albert Museum.