Luxury designer chairs Navy 1006 by Emeco in a corporate cafeteria

The chair that arrives with its paperwork: Emeco's Navy 1006 for LEED and WELL-rated buildings

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Green-rated buildings ask furniture for documents before they ask it for looks, and the Navy is among the rare chairs that turn up with the folder already full. Emeco publishes a Health Product Declaration disclosed to 1,000 ppm, a carbon footprint verified at 14.88 kg CO2e per chair, an ANSI/BIFMA e3 VOC declaration and a list of the credits the chair can contribute to: Sourcing of Raw Materials and Material Ingredients under LEED Materials and Resources, Low-Emitting Materials under Indoor Environmental Quality, Features X07 and I06 in WELL v2. For a fit-out chasing certification, that is correspondence the consultant does not have to start.

The reason the paperwork is so clean is that the chair is so simple: 80% recycled aluminium, welded into one piece, hand-brushed and anodised, 3 kg on the scale, nothing upholstered unless you add a pad. The same declarations cover the whole family, the 1006 chair and armchair, the counter stool seated at 61 cm, the barstool at 76, each with or without arms, and the Mini for the crèche, and La Mercanti attaches them to the quotation rather than to the delivery, while the consultant is still building the credit matrix. The chair then does what it has done since 1944, which is to sit in the room and be counted.

Technical information based on data declared by the manufacturer.

Collection: 1006 Navy, by Emeco, 1944
Manufacturer: Emeco, Hanover, Pennsylvania (USA)
Material: 80% recycled aluminium (half post-consumer, half post-industrial), 20% virgin
Construction: welded into a single piece, no hardware; welds ground flush; T0 tube bent, then heat-treated to T6
Finishes: hand-brushed and clear-anodised, indoor and outdoor · hand-polished, indoor · black powder coat, listed in the 2025 brochure
1006 chair: 39.5 × 49.5 cm, height 86.5 cm, seat height 45.5 cm, seat 39.5 × 38 cm, 3 kg
Armchair: 52.5 × 49.5 cm, height 86.5 cm, seat 45.5 cm, arms at 70 cm, 4 kg
Counter stool: 39.5 × 49.5 cm, height 94 cm, seat 61 cm, 3.5 kg; with arms 52.5 cm wide, arms at 84.5 cm, 4 kg
Barstool: 45.5 × 54 cm, height 109 cm, seat 76 cm, 3.5 kg; with arms 52.5 × 54 cm, arms at 99.5 cm, 4.5 kg
Mini chair: 39.5 × 47.5 cm, height 68.5 cm, seat 37.5 cm, 3 kg — hand-brushed only
Glides: soft TPU as standard, all floors including outdoors; optional polycarbonate with felt insert (indoor only), polycarbonate for carpet (outdoor approved), original Navy metal glide with polycarbonate cap (outdoor approved); all replaceable
Seat pads: Kvadrat Haku (polyurethane) · Kvadrat Reflect (recycled polyester) · Spinneybeck Volo leather · Sunbrella Heritage for outdoors · recycled-PET felt with non-slip backing; customer's own material 0.25 m fabric / 0.35 m² leather per seat; foam and fabrics compliant with CAL 117
Strength tests: ANSI/BIFMA X5.1-2017, Intertek report 105081394GRR-001 of 15 June 2022: seven conforming tests (backrest static at 150 and 225 lbf, drop, stability, backrest cyclic, base, leg strength, structural durability)
Emissions: ANSI/BIFMA e3-2019 sections 7.6.1-7.6.3; Health Product Declaration disclosed to 1,000 ppm
Fire: aluminium is naturally fireproof, as declared by Emeco
Carbon footprint: 14.88 kg CO2e per chair (materials 2.20 · packaging 0.10 · energy 12.57 · transport 0.02), 12.51 kg CO2e per counter stool, verified with the 2030 Calculator
Credits: contributions declared by Emeco to LEED BD+C and ID+C (Materials and Resources, Indoor Environmental Quality) and to WELL v2 (X07 Material Transparency and Optimization, I06 Carbon Disclosure)
Use: indoor and outdoor for the brushed and powder-coated finishes, approved for marine settings; polished finish indoors
Assembly: none, delivered fully assembled
Packing: one piece per carton, 56 × 51 × 94 cm, 6.4 kg; two pieces per carton 66 × 46 × 102 cm, 9.5 kg; recycled cardboard, 100% recyclable, country of origin printed on the box
End of life: aluminium 100% recyclable, endlessly
Warranty: lifetime, declared by Emeco (expected life 150 years), glides excluded; outdoors on the hand-brushed finish
Design protection: Trade Dress registered, US 2511360 and EU 008937013
Made in: USA

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Documents and Catalogues

Navy Catalogue Navy Technical Datasheet

FAQ

How heavy is one Navy chair?
3 kg, or 7 lb on Emeco's sheet: light enough to lift with one hand, which is why the US Navy chose aluminium for its ships in 1944 and why housekeeping crews still like it. The armchair weighs 4 kg, the stools 3.5 to 4.5 kg.
Is aluminium a fire risk, and does it interfere with instruments?
No on both counts. Emeco describes its aluminium as naturally fireproof, with no flame-retardant treatment to add, and non-magnetic, one of the properties the Navy required aboard ships. The chair carries no foam or fabric unless a seat pad is fitted.
Which stool goes with a kitchen worktop and which with a bar?
The counter stool puts the seat at 61 cm with an overall height of 94 cm; the barstool at 76 cm and 109 cm. Emeco names them for the two surfaces they serve, and both come with or without arms.
How do I know a Navy is genuine on delivery?
Turn it over: the Emeco stamp is at the back of the seat. Then look at the top of the three backrest bars, where three small weld beads are left as the craftsman's signature, and under the seat, where the footrest is two parallel bars. Copies are usually spot-welded and painted rather than anodised.
How is it packed, and what does the carton say?
One chair per carton in recycled cardboard with recycled inner padding, 100% recyclable; the country of origin, USA, is printed on the box. Two chairs can travel in one carton of 66 × 46 × 102 cm.

How to order seat pads for a set of Navy chairs

Five decisions to put on the order line when a Navy 1006 gets an upholstered or felt pad, from the fabric family to the number of pieces.

Pick the family first
Emeco offers four upholstered options for the Navy, Kvadrat Reflect, Kvadrat Haku, Spinneybeck Volo leather and Sunbrella Heritage, plus a recycled-PET felt pad; write the family before the colour.
Separate indoors from outdoors
Only Sunbrella Heritage is an outdoor fabric; the felt pad carries a one-year indoor-only warranty, so terrace chairs take Sunbrella or no pad at all.
Measure your own material
If the project fabric is yours, send 0.25 m per seat, or 0.35 m² of leather; Emeco's foam and fabrics meet CAL 117, and your material should meet the same standard.
Count pads per piece
The chair, the armchair and each stool take one pad; the Mini is ordered without. Match the count to the seating plan, not to the number of chairs in the carton.
Confirm on one sheet
La Mercanti sends back a single line per pad family with quantities; check it against the plan before it goes to Hanover.