Property from a Private American Collector
Kem Weber
Lounge Chair
Auction Closed
December 8, 09:48 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private American Collector
Kem Weber
Lounge Chair
circa 1934
model no. LC-52
produced by Lloyd Manufacturing 🎐Comp🐷any, Menominee, Michigan
chrome-plated tubular steel, lacquered oak, 🔥original fabric upholstery
30¾ x 27¾ x 36 in. (78.1 x 70.4 x 91.4 cm)
The Rose Furniture Co., Zanesville, Ohio, 1935
Private Collection, Ashland, Kentucky
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Private Collection, Ashland, Kentucky
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Dorothy Grafly, "Kem Weber: Industrial Designer," Design, vol. 49, May 1948, pp. 15-16 and 22
David Gebhard, Kem Weber: The Moderne in Southern California 1920 through 1941, Santa Barbara, 1969, p. 81
James D. Beebe, Tubular Steel and Metal-Framed Furniture of the Lloyd Manufacturing Company in Menominee, Michigan, 1929-1947, The Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2000, p. 185
Jason T. Busch and Catherine L. Futter, Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851-1939, Pittsburgh, 2012, p. 236 (for the example in the collection of Yale University Art Gallery)
Christopher Long, Kem Weber: Designer and Architect, New Haven, 2014, cover page
David Gebhard, Kem Weber: The Moderne in Southern California 1920 through 1941, Santa Barbara, 1969, p. 81
James D. Beebe, Tubular Steel and Metal-Framed Furniture of the Lloyd Manufacturing Company in Menominee, Michigan, 1929-1947, The Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2000, p. 185
Jason T. Busch and Catherine L. Futter, Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851-1939, Pittsburgh, 2012, p. 236 (for the example in the collection of Yale University Art Gallery)
Christopher Long, Kem Weber: Designer and Architect, New Haven, 2014, cover page
This lot is offered together with the original invoice from The Rose Furniture Co., Zanesville, Ohio, 1935.
