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Dieter Rams and Cold War Modern at the V&A
I may have to take a trip to London just to see the V&A Museum’s Cold War Modern, “the first exhibition to explore international developments in modern art, design, architecture and film in the...
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Newgate Bubble Clock
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Vintage Sony Radio
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Seth Thomas Flip Clock
Update: Speaking of timepieces, BoomerangThang submitted this fine Seth Thomas (“America’s oldest clockmaker”) specimen to our photo group today. Another one, whose owner says he noticed the clock in...
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Panasonic Radio Clock from the 1960s
“Panasonic Radness!”, recently submitted to our photo group by caco-wixtle
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Braun SK 6 by Dieter Rams
Michael Dent has posted some beautiful shots of a beautiful machine: the SK 6 phonograph and radio for Braun. Dieter Rams & Hans Gugelot’s landmark design — the first hifi with a clear plexiglas...
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Investing in Melamine
Flickr group member brum b pulled in quite the harvest from the Utrecht Collectors Fair.
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New Dieter Rams Interviews with Gestalten and Design Museum
Once known only to the closest followers of product design history, Dieter Rams is now becoming a mainstream hero of modernism. His work was included last year in an exhibition at the V&A Museum,...
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George Nelson Table Clocks
Everyone knows George Nelson’s whimsical wall clocks, but not until I ran into Wright’s latest auction did I realize how many models he made for the desktop. Creating a clock that has to sit upright...
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Flip Clocks Inspired by the Solari Dator 5
A BT637 calendar clock by Pierre Bodet, produced in the ’70s. Here’s the patent (PDF). It sold on eBay today for nearly $400. This tasty bit of eye candy for flip clock fetishists brought to my...
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