Data Source

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Description

Horizontal rectangle. On blue-gray ground, design for a brown angled rectangular radio viewed obliquely from front. Large round dial at centers with numbers from 55 to 160 curving across, a brown knob at the dial's center. Two notched wheels at lower left and lower right of radio for controlling tuning and volume. A speckled white and brown pattern on the front, solid brown color at the radio's sides.

Office of

Henry Dreyfuss Associates, New York, New York, USA

Client

Radio Corporation of America, American, founded 1919

Date

1946

Credit Line

Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund

Medium

Brush and gouache on illustration board

Type

appliances & tools

Object Name

Drawing

Type

Drawing

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

Accession Number

2017-1-3

made in

New York, NY, USA