LC-52-A Lounge Chair Designer: Kem Weber (American, born Germany, 1889–1963)
Manufacturer: Lloyd Manufacturing Company (a division of Heywood-Wakefield Company) (American, 1920–1978)

designed 1935, manufactured 1935–37

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Chromium-plated steel, birch plywood, and velour

Dimensions

29 1/2 × 25 × 39 1/2in. (74.93 × 63.5 × 100.33 cm)

Credit Line

Purchased with the Friends of American Arts Acquisition and John P. Axelrod, B.A. 1968, Funds

Accession Number

2007.40.1

Geography

Manufactured in Menominee, Michigan, Designed in Los Angeles, California

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Wright Auctions, Chicago, March 28, 2006, lot 249; purchased by Historical Design, New York, 2006
Bibliography
  • John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 336–37, no. 235
  • "Friends of the American Arts at Yale," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University (Spring 2008), 22, ill
  • "Acquisitions, July 1, 2006–June 30, 2007," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007), 203, 206, ill
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

lounge chairs

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