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Kem Weber The Moderne in Southern California 1920 Through 1941 by Gebhard, David & Harriette Von Breton (curate); Gebhard, David & Harriette Von Breton (curate) - 1969

by Gebhard, David & Harriette Von Breton (curate); Gebhard, David & Harriette Von Breton (curate)

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Kem Weber The Moderne in Southern California 1920 Through 1941

by Gebhard, David & Harriette Von Breton (curate); Gebhard, David & Harriette Von Breton (curate)

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University of California Press. Very Good+. 1969. Paperback. Now in a protective mylar cover. Second edition. Slight signs of use. Less than 2,000 copies printed in all three editions. First edition 600 copies, second edition 750 copies, third edition 750 copies. All editions are scarce. The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara. February 11 to March 23 1969. 113 black and white photos and drawings. Architectural historian David Gebhard showcased Kem Weber as the centerpiece of his 1969 exhibition at the University Art Museum, UCSB - the first exhibition in the United States to evaluate Art Deco and the Moderne as a design movement. This is the only book published to date exclusively on Weber designs. Includes his designs for architecture, furniture, interior design and clocks. Kem Weber (1889-1963) , a native of Berlin, travelled to America in 1914 and was stranded due to the War. He then settled in California and was active in the formative years of the California modern design community, establishing his studio in Los Angeles in 1927. His approach to design was "to make the practical more beautiful and the beautiful more practical." As an architect and industrial designer he adapted the rounded corners of the streamlined style, designing items like cocktail shakers for Friedman Silver of New York and clocks for Lawson Time Company in Alhambra between 1934-1935. Weber achieved national prominence during the 1930s when he was singled out by critics as the first on the West Coast to bring a tradition-free, machine-age creativity to American interior design. Of his famous and now classic 'Airline chair', he wrote that he was guided by the "desire to make a comfortable, hygienic and beautiful chair inexpensively." ; black and white photographs; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 107 pages .
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  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Date Published 1969
  • Keywords Books, Paperback, Refinements, Printed Books, Interior Design, Furniture, History, Kem Weber

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Kem Weber: The Moderne In Southern California 1920-1941

by [Weber, Kem] Gebhard, David and Harriette Von Breton

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Univ. of California. Santa Barbara Art Galleries, 1969. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Illustrated paperback cover, oblong large octavo. 106 pages. 51 pages of illustrations. Notes. Exhibition of the work of Kem Weber. Very good clean copy.
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KEM WEBER: THE MODERNE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 1920-1941

by (WEBER, KEM). Gebhard, David & Harriette Von Breton

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(WEBER, KEM). Gebhard, David & Harriette Von Breton. KEM WEBER: THE MODERNE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 1920-1941. Santa Barbara, CA. 1969 (1976).: The Art Galleries of the University of California, Santa Barbara., Second Edition 1/750. Square 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Design Monograph. Near Fine. 108pp, 113 illustrations in b&w. Designed by David Gebhard. With a biography and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the lovely catalogue published in conjunction with the first major retrospective of the work of the noted Southern California-based architect and industrial designer Kem Weber. Perhaps best known for his contributions to West Coast Art Deco, Weber designed sets for Paramount Studios, several lines of furniture - including his renowned "Airline" chair of 1935, many department stores, and Burbank's Walt Disney Studios in 1941. A bright, most handsome example of the second printing of this uncommon document limited to seven hundred and fifty… Read More
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Kem Weber: The Moderne Design in California, 1920-1941

by Gebhard, David

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University of California Santa Barbara, 1969. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. A crisp Good copy in somewhat rubbed wraps with a crease to the top of the front cover and small piece missing from the bottom forecorner of the last 16 pages. 108 pp., illustrations. Scarce in any condition.
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