Classic Telephones in New Design Exhibition

“Beloved Telephone – a Design Story” opens on 22 October at the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology. Unique items from the museum collections will be on display together with new acquisitions, shown in Sweden for the first time. This exhibition is first in a series of exhibitions on communications included in the Swedish Year of Design.

The telephones are displayed thematically. Among them are 19th century skeleton phones, wall-mounted phones resembling cuckoo-clocks, the telegraph service phone, bakelite phones from the thirties, loud-speaking phones from the fifties and modern mobile phones with many special functions.

... The “Cobra” , from 1953, is probably the most famous example. In 1972, the Museum of Modern Art in New York placed it among the most important design products of the 20th century. It is also the symbol of this exhibition.

[via Scandinavian Design and BIGperk]

Related: - «MoMu»: A Mobile Museum

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