Before television and MTV, the radio was central in the home, a way
for the family to gather to hear the news or listen to music. At
one time, the radio was a piece of hand-crafted wood furniture and
limited stations fell silent during part of the day. Over 175
images provide an impressive visual journey through the radio s
aesthetic history reflecting all the major design changes across
the years. The images also reveal the diversity of materials,
textures, colors, shapes, and sizes of radios of earlier ages. It
ranges from the 1920s tabletop wooden console models in the classic
bread box, cathedral, and tombstone styles, the wooden and early
Bakelite and Catalin plastic art deco models of the 1930s to the
1950s, on to the 1950s thermoplastic models in modern styling, and
the transistors that ascended to prominence in the 1950s and
beyond. Reintroducing machines that few people see anymore and
perhaps hardly know existed, this fascinating book restores the
once state-of-the-art machines' aesthetic glory."
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