The Story Behind Disney Animators’ Furniture
When Dave Bossert “retired” from Disney Animation Studios after 32 years, he received a parting gift: the Kem Weber-designed animator’s desk he’d been using for over three decades. (You can see Dave’s desk in the photo at left; that’s Kem Weber pictured above.)
Kem Weber was a mid-20th century designer and creator of the iconic “Airline” chair.
He was also the architect and furniture designer for the creation of the Burbank, California, Disney studios complex in the 1930s. While Dave sat at the desk, now located in his home office, and worked on a book about making , it occurred to him that the Kem Weber Disney animation furniture itself was deserving
