![]() ![]() Sold for $125,000 at Sotheby’s Important Design sale, July 2020. Kem Weber Lounge Chair Model No LC-52 c1934 produced by Lloyd Manufacturing Company. ![]() He became a US citizen in 1924 and took the name Kem based on the initials of his first three names (Karl Emmanuel Martin). He moved to the USA and in 1921 he moved to Los Angeles and up 1924 until he worked as Art Director for Barker Brothers for whom he designed everything from furniture and interior fittings in a modernist style. Despite the pavilion’s construction being put on hold, the start of World War I stopped him from going home, leaving him trapped in California. Weber, though, was quickly eclipsed by different global events. Paul dispatched his assistant to San Francisco, California, to oversee construction of the German pavilion for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. The second pavilion’s design ended up being the turning point in Weber’s career. It is believed that only approximately 200 of these chairs were produced, with a large portion of that 200 used by Disney to furnish his new studio. An icon of the mid-century modern aesthetic, Weber designed the chair with beautiful slopes and angles that were the inspiration behind its “airline” name. Sold for $18,150.00 at Van Eaton Galleries, December 2020. Walt Disney Studios Kem Weber Airline Chair. After receiving his diploma in 1912, Weber began working at Paul’s office after helping his professor build the German pavilion for the 1910 ‘Exposition Universalle’ in Brussels. Karl Emmanuel Martin Webber (also known as Kem Weber), a Berlin native who was trained by the royal cabinet maker Eduard Schultz in Potsdam before enrolling in the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) in Berlin in 1908 to study under Bruno Paul, was born in Berlin in 1889. An Introduction to Karl Emmanuel Martin Webber (1889–1963) ![]() One of the most notable furniture and interior designers of this time period was Karl Emmanuel Martin Webber (Kem Weber), a furniture and industrial designer, architect, art director, and teacher who created several iconic designs of the ‘Streamline’ style. This movement encompassed many different art forms, including architecture, painting, furniture design and interior design. In the early 20th century, a new artistic movement emerged in America which became known as American Modernism. ![]()
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