Retro Vintage Radios 60 yrs of Design Styles 1920s-1970s Collector Reference

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Retro Radio: Six Decades of Design 1920s-1970s by: Mike Tauber
ISBN:
9780764346798
Book Title:
Retro Radio: Six Decades of Design 1920s-1970s
Author:
Mike Tauber
Binding:
Hard Cover
Copyright:
2014
Pages:
176
Size:
9.5 x 8.5 in.
Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry.
Before television and MTV, the radio was central in the home, a way for the family to gather to hear the news or listen to music. At one time, the radio was a piece of hand-crafted wood furniture and limited stations fell silent during part of the day. Over 175 images provide an impressive visual journey through the radio's aesthetic history reflecting all the major design changes across the years. The images also reveal the diversity of materials, textures, colors, shapes, and sizes of radios of earlier ages. It ranges from the 1920s tabletop wooden console models in the classic bread box, cathedral, and tombstone styles, the wooden and early Bakelite and Catalin plastic art deco models of the 1930s to the 1950s, on to the 1950s thermoplastic models in modern styling, and the transistors that ascended to prominence in the 1950s and beyond. Reintroducing machines that few people see anymore and perhaps hardly know existed, this fascinating book restores the once state-of-the-art machines' aesthetic glory.
176 color photos
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