Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corp., USA
- Designer
- Norman Bel Geddes, American, 1893–1958
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Blue rectangular case with long red horizontal handle on top; face with red and white horizontally striped grill on left, circular red and white station selection dial above two red circular control knobs on right; each control knob with molded decoration of five-pointed star.
- Credit Line
- Gift of George R. Kravis II
- 1940
- Accession Number
- 2014-10-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- radio
- Type
- radio
- Medium
- phenolic resin (Opalon), urea plastic, cellulose acetate, acetate, metal
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 20.3 x 27.9 x 14 cm (8 in. x 11 in. x 5 1/2 in.)
- manufactured in
- New York, 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_2014-10-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ae10b8ce-4ef3-4dc2-a37a-e8752c6cc1c0
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