Model R-72 Toot-a-Loop Radio
Object Details
- Designer
- Daisuke Kajiwara, Japanese
- Manufacturer
- National Panasonic Radio
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Red plastic radio that, when open, is reminiscent of an old-fashioned telephone handset; it twists closed to form a ring. Speaker is area of horizontal striations at one end; at other end, controls, and black dial.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler
- 1971
- Accession Number
- 2007-37-5
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- portable radio
- Type
- portable radio
- Medium
- plastic (ABS), metal, electronic components
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (in "open" configuration): 15.5 × 15 × 13.5 cm (6 1/8 × 5 7/8 × 5 5/16 in.)
- H x diam. (in closed "O" configuration): 7.6 × 15.6 cm (3 × 6 1/8 in.)
- manufactured in
- Japan
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2007-37-5
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d61dce7f-453b-44b2-8f88-2a54366572dd
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