John Vassos blog

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RCA Car Phonograph, 1960 Plymouth

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John Vassos _ turnstile design

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From the Archives of American Art

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turnstile, 1932, john vassos,stewart collection, mmfa, montreal

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A 1946 RCA table top model 621ArtDeco television set to tune in channels one through 13. This is a pre-war designed cabinet by John Vassos. WWII got in the way of production, so this design had to wait and was marketed for only a few months in 1946.

Source: http://www.greatestcollectibles.com/1940s-john-vassos-rca-pre-war-television/

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John Vassos (1898-1985) was an American industrial and graphic designer. He designed the cabinets of the RCA Corporation’s first commercially available television sets. For the 1939 World’s Fair he created a novel TV cabinet in transparent Lucite plastic (we’ve posted a picture of that before), as well as futuristic entertainment systems such as a radio, television, and record player housed within a single cabinet. His industrial design contributions at RCA spanned over 40 years and included the design for RCA’s first color television camera. The red, round-cornered Coca-Cola fountain dispenser was also his design.

(Library of American Broadcasting collection.)

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Meet John Vassos, industrial designer. While at RCA (Radio Corporation of America), Vassos was part of a team that created innovative concept designs for televisions. Large flat-screens and small portable color sets are commonplace today but were fresh in 1961. Art historian Danielle Shapiro explores his work in our latest blog post. Shapiro relied heavily on the John Vassos papers for her new biography, John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life.

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John Vassos, portable phonograph RCA Victor Special, 1937. Aluminium. RCA Manufacturing Company, USA. Via Wolfsonian

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z4AcrE97LQ)