Retro Radio: Six Decades of Design 1920s-1970s (Hardcover)

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."

General

Imprint:	Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2015
First published:	March 2015
Authors:	Mike Tauber
Foreword by:	Ron Simon
Dimensions:	214 x 240 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-7643-4679-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Antiques & collectables > Scientific & musical instruments Promotions
LSN:	0-7643-4679-2
Barcode:	9780764346798

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