"Air Line" Armchair Designer: Kem Weber (American, born Germany, 1889–1963)
Manufacturer: Airline Chair Company (Los Angeles, active 1930s)

Designed 1934; manufactured 1935

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Birch, ash, and Naugauhyde

Dimensions

31 1/2 × 25 × 33 in. (80.01 × 63.5 × 83.82 cm)

Credit Line

John P. Axelrod Collection, B.A. 1968

Accession Number

2014.97.11

Geography

Designed in Los Angeles, California, Manufactured in Los Angeles, California

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
Commissioned by Walt Disney Studios, burbank, Calif., 1935; Fifty/50, New York, by 1990; purchased by John P. Axelrod, Boston, 1990; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2014
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions 2015," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2015), 8
  • Christopher Long, Kem Weber: Designer and Architect (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2014), 137–38, fig. 137
  • 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), 340–41, no. 238
  • David Gebhard and Harriette Von Breton, Kem Weber: The Moderne in Southern California, 1920–1941, exh. cat. (Santa Barbara, Calif.: University of California Press, 1969), 82–83, fig. 63–65
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

armchairs

Marks

“SERIAL NUMBER / 2084,” written in ink on printed materials label affixed to underside of seat; black ink rectangle with rounded corners and asymmetrical protrusions containing illegible lettering, stamped to back stretcher

Inscriptions

“4941,” in black paint on underside of seat

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