Art Deco and the fashioning of radio spaces

This chapter explores some of the spaces of radio in the world. It explains radio in the world to the domestic interior. Advertisement from the series emphasizes the technological advances of the radio receivers and links the progress of their development to their efficient production in the company...

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Published inThe Routledge Companion to Art Deco pp. 139 - 158
Main Author Windover, Michael
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 2019
Edition1
Subjects
Alexandr Rodchenko
Art Deco
Young Man
Mont Royal
Elsa Schiaparelli
Interior Design Scheme
Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission
Radio Cabinets
Tuning Dial
Paul Cret
Vice Versa
RCA Victor
Streamlined Contours
MacLean’s Magazine
NBC’s Red
Art Deco Style
NBC Studio
Bird’s Eye
Radio City
Winnipeg Free Press
Clair River
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Summary:This chapter explores some of the spaces of radio in the world. It explains radio in the world to the domestic interior. Advertisement from the series emphasizes the technological advances of the radio receivers and links the progress of their development to their efficient production in the company's new Art Deco-styled plant in Mont Royal. The 1930 Marconi advertising campaign is particularly useful in setting up a discussion of radio and Art Deco in that it emphasizes some of radio's places in the world. Within a year or so of the 1930 Marconi advertising campaign, home radios began to appear in the Art Deco mode in North America, and by the mid-1930s, expensive floor models were predominantly styled in this user-friendly form of modernism. As at the earlier National Broadcasting Company studios, Art Deco interiors helped to mark off the radio space as distinct, theatrical, and modern.
ISBN:1472485149
9781472485144
DOI:10.4324/9780429032165-8