what's design?

To us, it's about purpose. It's about solutions for turning waste materials into simple, useful and timeless furniture that sits lightly on the planet. It's about longevity. Some of our products have been in continuous production since the 1940s. Others are revived from our dusty but rich archives. Together with some of the world's best, we mindfully create new designs, intended to be around for many decades - designed, and built, to last.

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How it started: Emeco for U.S. Navy
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Jasper Morrison
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Naoto Fukasawa
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Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby
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Philippe Starck
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Sam Hecht & Kim Colin
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Nendo
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Konstantin Grcic
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BMW Designworks / Adrian Van Hooydonk
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Frank Gehry
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Jean Nouvel
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Michael Young
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Foster + Partners
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Andrée Putman
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Ettore Sottsass
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Yun Li

Begin with what's left over. Turn it into what will last.
Pretty much our story.