Derek Cohen
01-20-2020, 12:23 PM
I've long had a love of design in everyday items ... simple, clean designs, classic lines, curves with emotion. Some watches are beautiful. I have a small collection of vintage fountain pens. I use them every day, and they bring a smile to my face and make hated note-taking a more pleasant task. I still listen to vinyl, and love old hifi. I would love to find (afford!) a Quad 44/405 amp/pre-amp ... as much to look at as listen to. Some of the most wonderful designs of lighting came out of the Bauhaus era. Look up Wilhelm Wagenfeld (we have a couple of his designs at home). Look up the designs of Dieter Rams for Braun. His calculator (1987) was so classic that it inspired the shape of the first iPod. I have one of these on my desk ...
https://rushfaster.com.au/images/products/braun/10449_1_P.jpg
His radios are simple, elegant. And they were in the museum! I will show you a few.
One of the first of these items I came across was at the entrance. A Sharp TV set (when everyone else was building squares) ...
https://i.postimg.cc/D056xM6f/1a.jpg
As you enter the museum, and move past the cars, motor bikes and chairs, you are faced with a long, glass display cabinet that stretches the full length of one wall (that's Lynndy looking on) ...
https://i.postimg.cc/9QDbB17V/2a.jpg
Oh .. a radio by Rams ...
https://i.postimg.cc/9FFJDcXD/3a.jpg
This radio-phono was designed by Dieter Rams and Hans Gugelot in 1956 ...
https://i.postimg.cc/7YsX7jbm/4a.jpg
These pictures were taken through the glass, and this one did not come out as well as I hoped. A radio by Walter Dorwin Teague in 1932 ...
https://i.postimg.cc/CM4cMR0y/5a.jpg
Another radio by Dieter Rams for Braun ...
https://i.postimg.cc/VNMFx6gV/6a.jpg
I am not sure if this radiogram was the work of Rams or Wagenfeld ..
https://i.postimg.cc/13bH76GF/7a.jpg
This was definitely Rams ...
https://i.postimg.cc/Y9HxMHyq/8a.jpg
... as were these (the speaker was designed in 1958!) ...
https://i.postimg.cc/G2xxp5ZP/9a.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/3NLjXDrd/10a.jpg
There was a link between these electrical items and the next room, lighting.
https://i.postimg.cc/NMqdFTLt/14a.jpg
Inside the bubbles were all kinds of noise-making tools, and electrical items ...
https://i.postimg.cc/bJx3tJ2t/15a.jpg
The Sound of the Economic Miracle:
https://i.postimg.cc/mkTVNsQ6/15-infoa.jpg
There were a lot of lights, all modern and none from the Bauhaus era. I shall include a few of these here, simply because they are interesting ... and may become a part of our lives one day.
https://rushfaster.com.au/images/products/braun/10449_1_P.jpg
His radios are simple, elegant. And they were in the museum! I will show you a few.
One of the first of these items I came across was at the entrance. A Sharp TV set (when everyone else was building squares) ...
https://i.postimg.cc/D056xM6f/1a.jpg
As you enter the museum, and move past the cars, motor bikes and chairs, you are faced with a long, glass display cabinet that stretches the full length of one wall (that's Lynndy looking on) ...
https://i.postimg.cc/9QDbB17V/2a.jpg
Oh .. a radio by Rams ...
https://i.postimg.cc/9FFJDcXD/3a.jpg
This radio-phono was designed by Dieter Rams and Hans Gugelot in 1956 ...
https://i.postimg.cc/7YsX7jbm/4a.jpg
These pictures were taken through the glass, and this one did not come out as well as I hoped. A radio by Walter Dorwin Teague in 1932 ...
https://i.postimg.cc/CM4cMR0y/5a.jpg
Another radio by Dieter Rams for Braun ...
https://i.postimg.cc/VNMFx6gV/6a.jpg
I am not sure if this radiogram was the work of Rams or Wagenfeld ..
https://i.postimg.cc/13bH76GF/7a.jpg
This was definitely Rams ...
https://i.postimg.cc/Y9HxMHyq/8a.jpg
... as were these (the speaker was designed in 1958!) ...
https://i.postimg.cc/G2xxp5ZP/9a.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/3NLjXDrd/10a.jpg
There was a link between these electrical items and the next room, lighting.
https://i.postimg.cc/NMqdFTLt/14a.jpg
Inside the bubbles were all kinds of noise-making tools, and electrical items ...
https://i.postimg.cc/bJx3tJ2t/15a.jpg
The Sound of the Economic Miracle:
https://i.postimg.cc/mkTVNsQ6/15-infoa.jpg
There were a lot of lights, all modern and none from the Bauhaus era. I shall include a few of these here, simply because they are interesting ... and may become a part of our lives one day.