A stream lined leather chair with a rectilinear high back and a U shaped seat with a stretcher. The arms are three layers of open bentwood tubes that connect at the front seat and attach to the bottom of the bentwood stretcher of the chair. There are nailheads surrounding the rim of the chair. The front legs are straight while the back legs splay to the rear. The stretcher is connected by a horizontal tube of wood toward the front of the chair. The dimensions are 40 and 1/2 inches tall, 21 1/2 wide. The seat is 18 inches in height.

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	We acquired this object.
1928	Work on this object began.
1929	Work on this object ended.
2017	We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Object ID #907195809

This is a Armchair. It was designed by Kem (Karl Emanuel Martin) Weber. It is dated 1928–29. Its medium is painted wood with synthetic leather.

This chair and sideboard combine the linear impact of modern design with the soothing sage green color popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Here Weber references the shape and appearance of kitchen cabinetry. The Kem Weber Group was one of the designer's first projects for serial manufacture.

It is credited Lent by The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Fund 2003.4.

Sculptural chair with a wooden frame made out of birch and ash. The frame is angular and forms mirrored c-shapes on each side. It is assembled with steel tacks. Below the straight wooden armrests are thin wooden slats. There are two horizontal components at the bottom of the chair. These horizontal pieces are the only portions that touch the floor. It extends slightly past the backrest, providing support and preventing the chair from toppling over. The chair has a streamlined composition with a frame in a light brown color and a seat in brown. The bottom part of the seat and the middle side portions of the backrest are the only parts attached to the angular frame. The rest is left in the open space, creating the illusion that the seat is floating. The seat is covered in Naugahyde, a plastic-coated composite knit fabric. The seat and backrest are attached at an angle and slightly dips a couple of inches below the armrests.

Airline Chair
birch, ash, naugahyde, steel tacks.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2018-22-28

A wooden, rectangular sideboard with two columns of four, smooth, pale sage green drawers at the right and left edges, and three thin shelves stretching between them. The top of the sideboard is a dark brown geometrically patterned wooden work top. The feet of the two sets of four drawers and their handles are also dark brown wood.

Object ID #907130353
sage green painted wood.
Lent by The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial....
48.2016.13

Its dimensions are

L x W x D: 105.4 × 53.4 × 50.8 cm (41 1/2 in. × 21 in. × 20 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2oaBH4/
Accession Number 48.2016.14
Object ID 907195809