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  1. Radios/television sets
Themes
  1. Wilkhahn 100 years +
  2. Wiener Werkstätte
    1903 - 1932
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Wright

Portable Transistor Television | Wright

Estimated value: 500-700 US$

Auction:
Modernists

Sales date: 2003-09-14

Location:
Chicago

Lot number: 452

Year 1959
Manufacturer Sony
Architonic id 4102440

Enameled metal, plastic, metal
8.5"w x 11"d x 8"h
The Portable Transistor Television from 1959 represents the first fully transistorized television, and was highly innovative for its portability and light weight. The design won the Compasso d'Oro award in 1960.
Literature: Design Since 1945, Philadelphia Museum of Art, pg. 94