Object Details
- Producer
- Cyarts Plastics Inc., American, active ca. 1940s
- Description
- Tabletop radio constructed from yellow molded plastic. The top, left side and bottom are one continuous piece, and the front and right sides are bent around and joined to the other pieces with a round grille of Plexon fabric at front. Below the speaker grille and tuner on the front of the radio are three control knobs.
- Credit Line
- Gift from the George R. Kravis II Collection
- ca. 1946
- Accession Number
- 2019-29-18
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- radio
- Type
- radio
- Medium
- acrylic, plastic (Plexon) (speaker grille)
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 18.3 × 35.6 × 18.9 cm (7 3/16 in. × 14 in. × 7 7/16 in.)
- manufactured in
- Bronx, New York, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2019-29-18
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4099b99bb-7f03-40e2-bda9-2227ca33ae05
