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Karl Emanuel Martin Kem Weber was born in Berlin, Germany, he trained in Potsdam under the royal cabinet-maker, Eduard Schultz, and at the School of Decorative Arts in Berlin. The outbreak of the First World War meant that he found himself stranded in America, during visit to supervise the building of the German pavilion for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. At the time, Weber was assistant to Bruno Paul, the architect who had designed the pavilion. Weber chose to stay in America, becoming a US citizen in 1924.