This object is currently on display in room as part of The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource. There are 8 other images of this object. See our image rights statement.
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Radio Nurse Intercom Speaker, 1937–38
This is a Intercom speaker. It was designed by Isamu Noguchi and manufactured by Zenith Radio Corporation. It is dated 1937–38 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is molded bakelite, metal. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled A Modernist Mother's Helper.
This object was
donated by
Mel Byars.
It is credited Gift of Mel Byars.
- GRiD Compass Laptop Computer Prototype, 1981
- die-cast magnesium, injection-molded plastic.
- Gift of Bill Moggridge.
- 2010-22-1
- Radio Compass Loop Antenna Housing (USA)
- rag-filled bakelite, metal.
- 14.2012.57
- Patriot Radio, 1940
- cast phenolic resin (opalon), molded urea plastic, molded cellulose acetate,....
- Gift of George R. Kravis II.
- 2014-10-1
Our curators have highlighted 5 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Moosk Radio, 1996
- plastic, metal.
- Gift of Max Pine and Lois Mander.
- 2008-9-1
- Lectron Intercoms, 1967
- molded plastic, perspex, steel and electronic components.
- Gift of Robert M. Greenberg.
- 2017-51-20-a,b
- 547 Radio, 1940
- molded bakelite, metal.
- Gift of George R. Kravis II.
- 2018-22-79
Its dimensions are
H x W x D (without cord): 19.8 x 17 x 16 cm (7 13/16 x 6 11/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Cite this object as
Radio Nurse Intercom Speaker, 1937–38; Designed by Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904–1988); USA; molded bakelite, metal; H x W x D (without cord): 19.8 x 17 x 16 cm (7 13/16 x 6 11/16 x 6 5/16 in.); Gift of Mel Byars; 1991-59-61
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.