Circular green Bakelite housing with semi-circular station dial at top front above circular brown textile-covered speaker with three vertical metal rods as grille; three circular control knobs below speaker; two angled feet at base.

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	We acquired this object.
1932	Work on this object began.
1934	Work on this object ended.
2015	We photographed this object.
2017	We exhibited this object.
2020	You found it!

AD-65 Radio, Designed 1932; manufactured 1934

This is a Radio. It is dated Designed 1932; manufactured 1934. Its medium is compression-molded bakelite, chromium-plated metal, woven textile. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

The first radio broadcasts, starting in 1920, enabled technology to enter the living room with music, news, and performance. Wells Coates won E. K. Cole's competition to design a radio in modern taste with this circular model in Bakelite, exploiting its potential for color and form

This object was donated by George R. Kravis II. It is credited Gift of George R. Kravis II.

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Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1996-72-1

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Lantern Slide, Universal Wheel, ca. 1780
cut paper on wood frame.
Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims and George A. Hearn and....
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Rectangular black Bakelite case with a slightly smaller foot; large circular speaker on front covered with brown and black woven fabric. Below speaker is an arch-shaped station indicator above three small circular dials.

Volksempfänger Radio, ca. 1933
molded bakelite, textile (speaker cover).
Gift of Barry Friedman and Patricia Pastor.
1986-99-7

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aluminum, molded bakelite, laminated cellulose film.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2015-5-11

Rectangular, box-like form of light yellow plastic with stepped sides. The front molded with a series of seven vertical striations from top to bottom, and four horizontal ones near base; three white control dials and a large black dial at the center with number scale and image of Atlas holding up the globe; metal plaque at front top showing map of the world; rectangular speaker grill over woven textile on top.

Skyscraper Radio, 1935
compression-molded plaskon, metal, glass, woven textile.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2018-22-20

Sideboard, The Kem Weber Group, 1928–29
sage green painted wood.
Lent by The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial....
48.2016.13

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 38.7 × 38.1 × 22.9 cm (15 1/4 in. × 15 in. × 9 in.)

Cite this object as

AD-65 Radio, Designed 1932; manufactured 1934; compression-molded bakelite, chromium-plated metal, woven textile; H x W x D: 38.7 × 38.1 × 22.9 cm (15 1/4 in. × 15 in. × 9 in.); Gift of George R. Kravis II; 2018-22-40

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/BKmEr/
Accession Number 2018-22-40
Object ID 404536685