Fully restored Kem Weber Trimline Desk by Heywood Wakefield. Beautiful rich grain on the maple drawer. Steel frame and laminate top. USA, 1950s.
29 3/4″ x 47 3/4″ x 29 1/2″; Pencil Drawer: 17 1/4″ x 22. Upper Drawer: 12 1/2″ x 24 1/2″; Lower Drawer: 12 1/4″ x 24 1/4″
Kem Weber (1889-1963) was a German-born architect and furniture designer. He was "stranded" in the USA after the outbreak of the First World War.
Kem Architecture was part of the West Coast Modernist movement in America. His designs included many projects and products in Streamline Moderne, a form of Art Deco design and architecture that was very popular in the USA and Europe in the 1930s. This style emphasised curved forms and long horizontal lines; it was the epitome of sophistication and modernity in that era.
