Details
CHERMAYEFF, Serge
AN EKCO AC74 RADIO
designed 1933, for E.K.Cole & Co. Ltd., with black bakelite housing and metal details
See Illustration
AN EKCO AC74 RADIO
designed 1933, for E.K.Cole & Co. Ltd., with black bakelite housing and metal details
See Illustration
Literature
In Good Shape,Bayley,Design Council,p.139 for similar example illustrated
Further details
The Ecko radio company employed a number of progressive designers, most notably Serge Chermayeff and Wells Coates, to design cabinets for radios. The use of bakelite, a ralatively new material capable of being moulded into progressive and Modernist forms, articulated a transition from the wood-case radio cabinets of the 1920s, which sought to conceal the mechanics of what was rapidly becoming an increasingly popular domestic appliance