A modern forest dwelling in the village of Muraste in Estonia.

The original Emeco Navy 1006 (pronounced "ten oh six") chair caught the attention of famous modernist architects including Frank Gehry and Norman Foster. Knock-offs can be found worldwide but the authenticity of the Emeco chair is easily verified by finding indentions on the backside of the chair. Today, the company still manufactures the same 77-step design with recycled Coca-Cola bottles. Photo by Armando Bellmas.

Like many of Benepe's projects, planting P.S. 111's playground is more than a quality of life improvement. The grass and other flora help absorb flood water during storms, relieving pressure on the city's drainage systems.

The 111 Navy chairs are exact replicas of the beloved aluminum originals, down to the faux weld points on the backside.

At P.S. 111, the Trust for Public Land transformed an asphalt eyesore into a green sanctuary for New York City schoolchildren.

One of the final steps is to install the H-Brace and feet, both fabricated on another mold.

Eight to ten trailer truckloads of PET bales—each measuring 80 cubic feet and consisting of 20,000 bottles—arrive for processing every weekday.

Inspirational spaces

Each Navy chair begins life as 13 pounds of rPET plastic pellets, which are melted down and injected into the chair mold, a multiton device that functions like a gigantic waffle iron.

A view of the heavy machinery inside the New United Resource Recovery Corporation recycling plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

After the rPET mixture is heated and transformed via injection molding into a chair, a robotic arm removes it from the specially designed mold.

Over ten years, the UnPET process will prevent the release of one million metric tons of carbon dioxide—the equivalent of taking 215,000 cars off the road.

A worker smoothes any imperfections before manually installing the H-brace.

British artist Hannah Sawtell and technologist Avi Flombaum created sawbaum.com, where users can create visual collages using multiple vine streams. "We wanted it to look like a visual comic book, with overlapping panels," said Flombaum. "And we wanted it to be fun!" Photo courtesy Rhizome.

The white rinse flake.

During the injection process, each chair is stamped on the underside to read, "Help your bottle become something extraordinary again."

A worker operates the float-sink tank. Heavier, nonrecyclable materials sink to the bottom, leaving on the water's surface only rPET, which then becomes white rinse flake.

111 House kitchen.

Three Eggs (1975-82), Nam June Paik In this closed-circuit video work, there is an egg being filmed, a video receiver showing an egg, and a physical egg inside another receiver.

Nixon (1965-2002), Nam June Paik In this piece, Paik used magnetic coils and a Mackintosh amplifier to distort the broadcast image of Richard Nixon.

Victrola (2005), Nam June Paik A graffitied victrola stand paired with a video projection plays with the dichotomy between old and new.

Front of the 111 House with keyless entry for easy coming and going!

To make the most of the 111 square meters of living space, built-in storage is integrated throughout.

Living Zoo by Ha Nam Kyung, Photo by Sergio Pirrone

The 111 House is designed to be open, bright and modern. With an open floor plan it's great for relaxing, socializing or using as a home base as you explore Portland, Oregon.

Illustration via drawastickman.com.

111 House kitchen. Heart coffee is only 2 blocks so it's easy to buy beans or just have them make your coffee for you!

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Emeco recently collaborated with the Coca-Cola Company to produce the 111 Navy Chair. Each chair is made with the recycled material from 111 plastic bottles. Watch our slideshow from our trip to the North Carolina factory where the chairs are made to see the process from start to finish.

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One of the witticisms found on livethesheendream.com.

Bakelite Robot (2002) is a robotic sculpture made of stacked, vintage Bakelite radios inlaid with television screens.

For ventilation, many of the valley-facing windows, measuring 10 ½ feet tall, feature a section at the top or bottom that opens. Navy 111 chairs, part of Emeco’s Coca-Cola edition, sit at the heads of a Restoration Hardware table; WAC track lights provide illumination. The floors are made of poured-in-place concrete.

The piece makes a statement about how technology takes on a human-like power (and too, how humans become robotic in the hands of technology).

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Each 111 Navy Chair keeps 111 rPET bottles out of the landfill.