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 producing outdoor furnishings 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