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Originally Posted by craigster59
If you draw my name next year, send me the chair. Is it an Emeco?
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Slight threadjack: I went to medical school at USC, so we used LA County as our teaching hospital. The old County hospital (there's a new one, now) was full of authentic Emco chairs. Probably some sort of naval surplus. I didn't appreciate them for what they were at the time (though I thought they were surprisingly comfortable, despite their spartan looks). But because they looked so bare, nobody ever wanted them. They were always the last chair left in a room. I wonder where they all went when the new County hospital got built. Almost wish I had the presence of mind to have liberated a few of those for my garage. Or, apparently, this gift exchange.
I've been told the new County hospital was stocked with those Herman Miller Aeron chairs. Not repros, but real Herman Miller stuff. Of course, being a county hospital, they've all been abused and are in tatters, now.