with some of the progressive American furniture mass manufacturers
of the day – the Kroehler Company, Herman Miller, and Conant Ball,
among them – to create mass-produced sets of simple, light, wooden
furniture items, inspired by Swedish models, that were ideally suited to
the spatial constraints of modern, urban apartment living. A 1928 living
room designed by Kem Weber was illustrated in Innen-Dekoration. It
brought together modern and traditional items in a single setting. In
Mary McCarthy’s 1936 novel, The Group, a story about the lives of a group
A room designed by Kem Weber, Los Angeles, 1928 , illustrated inInnen-Dekoration, 1928. 165