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Kem Weber for Lloyd Mfg, chromed steel and red/coral vinyl, 1930 Art Deco

Name: Kem Weber for Lloyd Mfg, chromed steel and red/coral vinyl, 1930 Art Deco
Brand: Kem Weber
Price: 1400 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Lovely example of (Karl Emmanuel Martin) Kem Weber Cantilever Lounge Chair manufactured by Lloyd. Vinyl is in a surprisingly good condition with few minor pinhead size spots. It is red/coral color. No tears or cracks. Chrome plating is worn out in many spots and there's some rust. Metal was cleaned, treated with rust stopper but ideally it should be re-plated. This is unfortunately pretty common for many of the chrome plated metal pieces from 1930. I could get a separate price for plating if interested. Arm rests were re-coated in black gloss lacquer.

Creator:

Kem Weber (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 35 in (88.9 cm)Width: 24.5 in (62.23 cm)Depth: 29 in (73.66 cm)Seat Height: 17 in (43.18 cm)

Style:

Machine Age (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Chrome,Steel,Plated

Place of Origin:

United States

Period:

Early 20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

1930s

Condition:

Refinished. Minor losses. Arm rests refinished.

Seller Location:

Clifton Springs, NY

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU4421138837932

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Kem Weber

Architect and designer Kem Weber arrived in the United States in the vanguard of a wave of progressive Central European talents — among them, Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, Paul T. Frankl and Ilonka Karascz — who would profoundly affect the course of modernism in the United States. In his new home, Weber created a wholly American form of modern design that is sleek and stylish, yet comfortable and practical.

Karl Emanuel Martin Weber — “Kem” was his self-styled nom d’usage — was born and trained in Berlin. In 1914, he became an accidental immigrant to the U.S.. Sent to San Francisco by his teacher-turned-employer, architect Bruno Paul, to oversee an installation at a global design expo, Weber was marooned by the outbreak of World War I. But he quickly grew to love California, even if his early years there were difficult. When design commissions were hard to find, he took jobs as a lumberjack, chicken farmer and art school teacher. (He gained U.S. citizenship in 1924.)

In the mid-1920s, while working for the Los Angeles–based Barker Bros. department store — the largest furniture retailer in the country at the time — Weber regularly traveled around the nation to deliver lectures on modernism. His reputation as a champion of a new, clean and elegant style earned him architectural commissions and contracts to design furniture and items such silverware, coffee services and cocktail shakers. His masterpiece is the Airline lounge chair, designed 1934-1935. With its raked, gently angular frame and cantilevered seat, the chair suggests movement, speed and forward progress. Though it seemed perfect for mass production, Weber was never able to convince a major manufacturer to take it on. In the end, fewer than 300 Airline chairs were made. Today, those may be the rarest examples of Weber’s work, but are always worth looking out for. As you will see on these pages, his designs are both intelligent and stylish. They deserve to be a part of any serious collection of American modernism.