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KEM WEBER...

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD
KEM WEBER...
KEM WEBER
"AIRLINE" ARMCHAIR, CA. 1930s
designed 1934-1935
manufactured by the Airline Chair Co., Los Angeles
birch, ash, original oilcloth
30 3/4 in. (78.1 cm) high <P>ESTIMATE: $15,000-20,000 <P>LITERATURE
David Gebhard and Harriette Von Breton, KEM WEBER: THE MODERNE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 1920 THROUGH 1941, Santa Barbara, 1969, pp. 82-83
Martin Eidelberg, ed., DESIGN 1935-1965: WHAT MODERN WAS, Montreal, 1991 (reprinted New York, 2001), pp. 76-77
J. Stewart Johnson, AMERICAN MODERN, 1925-1940: DESIGN FOR A NEW AGE, New York, 2000, p. 139 for an identical model in the John C. Waddell collection <p>The cantilevered, streamlined "Airline" chair received favorable critical reception for its clean lines, comfort and knockdown assembly. But Weber failed to find a distributor or retailer, and only a handful were manufactured. In 1939, Walt Disney Studios ordered several hundred of the chairs upholstered in red oilcloth to go along with the plywood modular furniture designed by Weber for the screening rooms and executive suites. The original cloth on our chair is the surest indicator that it hails from the Disney commission.