Here’s a little BLUESDAY inspiration from our Decorative Arts collection, currently on view in Infi

 Here’s a little BLUESDAY inspiration from our Decorative Arts collection, currently on view in Infinite Blue.Although experiments with the notion of wireless communication date back to the mid-nineteenth century, the first radio transmission in the United States occurred in 1920. New technology required new forms, and as the household radio rapidly gained in popularity throughout the twenties and thirties, many designers devised different shapes and styles. Walter Dorwin Teague’s radios from the mid-1930s are among the most iconic early radio designs. Their streamlined, curving, silhouettes epitomize the Art Moderne, or Art Deco, style that began about 1925. The striking blue mirrored glass that clads this radio was a clever use of a preexisting material to add to the radio’s novelty and sense of newness.Walter Dorwin Teague (American, 1883–1960) Table Radio, Model 557, circa 1936 Sparks-Withington Company (1900–present) Jackson, Mississippi Glass, wood, metal, rubber Purchased with funds given by the Walter Foundation, 83.158 -- source link

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