Kem (Karl Emanuel Martin) Weber | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Karl Emanuel Martin Weber (1889–1963), more popularly known as “Kem”, was a German designer who was active in Southern California. He trained as a furniture maker in 1908 with Eduard Schultz and then continued his education at the Academy of Applied Arts in Berlin, studying under Bruno Paul. In 1914 he traveled to San Francisco to design the German segment of the 1915 San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition, but with the outbreak of WWI, he stayed in the United States and relocated to Los Angeles. Shortly after settling in Los Angeles, he joined the Barker Brothers Furniture Co. as a draughtsman, where he was until 1927, when he then opened his own design studio in Hollywood. During his... more.

We have 8 objects that Kem (Karl Emanuel Martin) Weber has been involved with.

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.

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.

A pair of pewter candelabra, each with three candle sticks that have cylindical holders set on discs at the top. Two of the candle sticks are straight columns, and one, in the center, is shaped like an abstracted flower, with a curved, striped stalk and two leaves at the base. The candle sticks sit on three rounded rectangular blocks of pewter on an ebony base.

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