KEM WEBER Streamline Art Deco Digital Table or Shelf Plug-In Clock, 3.50″ high by 8″ width by 3.13 diameter. Great Burnished Gold/Brass Machine Age Electric Plug-In Clock designed in the 1930’s. Great Art Deco Stylized numbers in digital form with seconds wheel. This clock is in working order and we ran it a few hours and it appears to keep very good time. We don’t guarantee old clocks to be in perfect running order but the test was good! Designed by KEM WEBER. See photograph 9 as comparison. Kem Weber (18891963) was a furniture and industrial designer, architect, art director, and teacher who created several iconic designs of the’Streamline’ style. Born Karl Emanuel Martin Weber in Berlin, Germany. Weber initially trained under the royal cabinet maker Eduard Schultz in Potsdam, before enrolling at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Decorative Arts) in Berlin in 1908 where he studied under Bruno Paul. Graduating in 1912, Weber went on to work in Paul’s office, having previously assisted his tutor in the design of the German pavilion at the 1910’Exposition Universalle’ in Brussels. It was the design of a second pavilion that proved to be the turning point in Weber’s career. Paul sent his assistant to San Francisco, California. To supervise work on the German pavilion being built for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. However, Weber was soon overtaken by other international events. The onset of World War I prevented him from returning home despite the construction of the pavilion being suspended, leaving him stranded in California. Seeing greater opportunity in the New World, Weber stayed in the United States after the war ended, later becoming a U. In this respect, he is an early exemplar of the kind of progressive European talent whose immigration so enriched 20th century American design: a trend that accelerated in the 1930s after the rise of the Nazi Party, resulting in such famous names Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe. Making the move across the Atlantic. Weber went a step further towards forging a new identity in the New World, adopting the less Germanic name “Kem”, formed from combining his three initials. Having worked in Santa Barbara designing Spanish Colonial interiors and several buildings (inspired by ancient Mayan, Egyptian and Minoan architecture), Weber then moved to Los Angeles in 1921 and began working in the industrial and product design field for which he is perhaps best known. Until 1924 he worked as the Art Director for Barker Brothers, a large furniture and decorating store for whom he designed everything from furniture, interior fittings and packaging in a modernist style. Weber then established an independent industrial design studio in Hollywood, where he also designed modern sets for films and private residences. The inclusion of his work in the 1928’International Exposition of Art in Industry’ held by New York store Macy’s cemented his reputation and he went on to design many products for a wide variety of companies including Widdicomb, Berley & Gay, Friedman Silver and Lawson Time. Many of his designs, such as the copper’Zephyr’ desk clock (1933), can be classified as’ Streamline Moderne. , which was a popular style in contemporary architecture, as well as in the industrial designs of his contemporaries such as Raymond Loewy. Weber’s most famous work is probably the “Airline” chair of 1934, which exemplified the clean, streamlined style of the age, with its seat supported by a cantilevered frame reminiscent of wooden aircraft components. Weber is also noted for being the main architect of the Walt Disney Studios. Complex in Burbank, California. The item “KEM WEBER Streamline Art Deco Digital Plug-In Clock, Designed in the 1930’s” is in sale since Monday, March 06, 2017. This item is in the category “Antiques\Periods & Styles\Art Deco”. The seller is “jennyarts” and is located in Palmdale, California. This item can be shipped to United States, to Canada, to United Kingdom, DK, RO, SK, BG, CZ, FI, HU, LV, LT, MT, EE, to Australia, GR, PT, CY, SI, to Japan, SE, KR, to Taiwan, ZA, to Belgium, to France, to Hong Kong, to Ireland, to Netherlands, PL, to Spain, to Italy, to Germany, to Austria, IL, to Mexico, to New Zealand, SG, NO, SA, UA, AE, QA, KW, BH, HR, CO, PA, JM.
- Maker: Lawson
- Type: Art Deco Clock
- Sub-Style: American
- Width: 8″
- Diameter: 3.13″
- Style: Art Deco
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Color: Gold
- Height: 3.50″