emu outdoor
EMU - Elettro Meccanica Umbra - was started in Italy in 1951 to produce military equipment; specifically radios. The founders of EMU, brothers Aldo and Angelo Biscarini, and Dante Menconi, stumbled on a process to plasticise the metal components of the radios to protect them from the weather. A decade later EMU turned to produce outdoor furniture instead. If there was ever a piece of furniture that captured the essence of summer on the 1960s Amalfi Coast, it was the Rio. This elegant wire chair (from the Gardentime line) was the perfect place to perch beside the pool with a Campari on ice. From such humble beginnings, EMU products now sell in more than 50 countries and feature in some of the world’s most beautiful hotels; from the Granducato in Florence to the Hotel dei Dogi in Venice.
