#table radio

[thegikitiki]

RCA Table Radio, 1961

[brooklynmuseum]

🔵  Here’s a little BLUESDAY inspiration from our Decorative Arts collection, currently on view in Infinite Blue.

Although experiments with the notion of wireless communication date back to the mid-nineteenth century, the first radio transmission in the United States occurred in 1920. New technology required new forms, and as the household radio rapidly gained in popularity throughout the twenties and thirties, many designers devised different shapes and styles. Walter Dorwin Teague’s radios from the mid-1930s are among the most iconic early radio designs. Their streamlined, curving, silhouettes epitomize the Art Moderne, or Art Deco, style that began about 1925. The striking blue mirrored glass that clads this radio was a clever use of a preexisting material to add to the radio’s novelty and sense of newness.

Walter Dorwin Teague (American, 1883–1960) Table Radio, Model 557, circa 1936 Sparks-Withington Company (1900–present) Jackson, Mississippi Glass, wood, metal, rubber Purchased with funds given by the Walter Foundation, 83.158

[danismm]

ZENITH AC-DC Table Radio 1951 by Mark Amsterdam

[posttexasstressdisorder]

This is the impressive-sounding Zenith Z434W, “The Glissando”, in walnut-veneer Danish Modern cabinet FM/AM table radio, from 1968-69.  Zenith’s solid-state replacement for their “flagship” tubed table radio models.  This radio totally blew me away as far as how it sounds: I’d expected it to be rather anemic, but nope.  the bass on this is incredible.  Rigid cabinet, aperiodic back vent, big speaker, all adds up to unexpectedly good bass!  

https://www.ebay.com/itm/303263869635

[vintageradiojunkie]

Very interesting style on this RCA-Victor.

[paulmalon]

Triumphant by paul.malon on Flickr.

[materialimpact]

Wanting TIVOLI AUDIO Model One® Radio in Cherry / Silver