But, as studio legend has it, the drawer is the perfect height for a fifth of liquor standing in the drawer when closed. 14, 19, 1B, 2 and 2A were designed for deep storage. The deep drawers in the lower half of the desks, UNITS No. But, as societal norms have changed such frivolity has been curbed and in some cases frowned upon.ģ. Whether this was by design or a happy accident doesn’t matter as many a beer bottle was opened using them. The metal drawer pulls on the Disney animation furniture are perfect bottle openers. Pictured above is an early concept of the animation desk by Kem Weber. A prototype of the Weber animation desk was built and Thomas animated on it to help work out and refine the design before the desks were mass produced. While the Studio was in production on Pinocchio, Walt asked Kem Weber to work with Frank Thomas, one of his top animators, on designing an efficient animation desk. So, unless you worked at Disney Animation, here is my list of 7 Things That You Didn’t Know About the Disney Animation Furniture:ġ. Just like the pencils and brushes, the tools of the trade, his artists used to create the those animated masterpieces, the desks were in essence the toolboxes of the trade. From the outset, most are unaware that Walt Disney had the most optimal animation furniture designed for use at the new studio he was building in 1939. These are bits of information that, unless you spent years working on this furniture, you likely didn’t know anything about. They deserve to be a part of any serious collection of American modernism.During the course of researching and writing Kem Weber: Mid-Century Furniture Designs for the Disney Studios, I jotted down some interesting facts about the Disney Animation furniture. As you will see on these pages, his designs are both intelligent and stylish. Today, those may be the rarest examples of Weber’s work, but are always worth looking out for.
In the end, fewer than 300 Airline chairs were made. Though it seemed perfect for mass production, Weber was never able to convince a major manufacturer to take it on. With its raked, gently angular frame and cantilevered seat, the chair suggests movement, speed and forward progress. His masterpiece is the Airline lounge chair, designed 1934-1935. His reputation as a champion of a new, clean and elegant style earned him architectural commissions and contracts to design furniture and items such silverware, coffee services and cocktail shakers. department store - the largest furniture retailer in the country at the time - Weber regularly traveled around the nation to deliver lectures on modernism.
In the mid-1920s, while working for the Los Angeles–based Barker Bros. When design commissions were hard to find, he took jobs as a lumberjack, chicken farmer and art school teacher. But he quickly grew to love California, even if his early years there were difficult. Sent to San Francisco by his teacher-turned-employer, architect Bruno Paul, to oversee an installation at a global design expo, Weber was marooned by the outbreak of World War I. In 1914, he became an accidental immigrant to the U.S. Karl Emanuel Martin Weber - “Kem” was his self-styled nom d’usage - was born and trained in Berlin. In his new home, Weber created a wholly American form of modern design that is sleek and stylish, yet comfortable and practical. Frankl and Ilonka Karascz - who would profoundly affect the course of modernism in the United States. Architect and designer Kem Weber arrived in the United States in the vanguard of a wave of progressive Central European talents - among them, Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, Paul T.
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