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Designing for sound. By Design introduces you to collector Peter Sheridan, a man with a healthy obsession for vintage art deco radios primarily made from bakelite. Art deco radios were a ...
Taking a vintage radio and cramming it full of modern ... would arguably have been more appropriate given the era, the art deco inspired font and graphics that show on the device’s Nokia ...
If you happen to own a radio manufactured by AWA (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia) from the early to mid 1930’s, then you have quite a rare piece in your collection that is a tribute to Art Deco.
Remarkable as the WKBN studio building is, there’s an even better-preserved example of Art Deco radio architecture just an hour or so to the west in Canton. WHBC(AM) built its studio building right in ...
We had a chance to wander the building and observe how the developers have converted an obsolete radio studio building into a state-of-the-art hotel. The original auditorium studio has become the Art ...
In Jazz-Age America it fused with ideas about modernity and mass production: factories churned out everything from Art Deco radios to travel posters. In France, meanwhile, it remained a more elite ...
The Art Deco Trust's new festival director, Glen Pickering, pictured in Napier yesterday. Photo / Paul Taylor Four months ago, Christchurch-based Glen Pickering was embracing the colour ...