Collection Online as of March 27, 2023

Sideboard from "The Kem Weber Group"

1928–1929

Part of a set. See all set records

Kem (Karl Emanuel Martin) Weber

(American, b. Germany, 1889–1963)

manufacturer

Grand Rapids Chair Company

(American)

America, Michigan, Grand Rapids, 20th century

Sage green painted wood

Overall: 83.9 x 182.8 x 48.3 cm (33 1/16 x 71 15/16 x 19 in.)

The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Fund 2003.4.2

Location

not on view

Description

This chair and sideboard by Kem Weber combine the linear impact of urban architecture with decorative detailing inspired by Mayan temples, the two most influential visual references used by modernist designers in the late 1920s.

Citations

Coffin, Sarah D., and Stephen Harrison. The Jazz Age: American style in the 1920s. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017. Reproduced: fig. 363, p. 296 - 297

Exhibition history

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (4/7/2017 - 8/20/2017) and The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH (9/30/2017 - 1/14/2018): "The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s"

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (April 7-August 20, 2017); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).