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Kem Weber

Kem Weber (1889 - 1963) was active/lived in California / Germany.  Kem Weber is known for Modern furniture design and painting.

Described as "one of the under appreciated giants of American design and a pivotal figure in the transmission of modernism from Europe to the United States", (91) Kern Weber was born in Berlin, Germany.  He apprenticed to a royal cabinetmaker in Potsdam and eventually settled in Los Angeles, becoming the "West Coast equivalent of Paul Frankl, the New York furniture designer whose Skyscraper line was a highlight of American modernism.  Weber is now best remembered for his Airline armchair of 1934-35, a slouchy, streamlined wood-and-naugahyde design that brings to mind the aerodynamic seating of the first commercial airplanes." (92)

One of Weber's major commissions was a set of dining room table chairs for the J.C. Friedman house built in 1928 in Banning, California.  Four of them, with high backs of five blond wood horizontal slats and framing strips of black stained wood, ended up in a Palm Springs junk shop, where they were spotted by a savvy collector whose rese   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2186 characters.]  Artist bio

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