R-72 Toot-a-Loop Portable Radio
Object Details
- Date
- 1971
- Designer
- Daisuke Kajiwara, Japanese
- Manufacturer
- National Panasonic Radio brand
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Red plastic radio that, when open, is reminiscent of an old-fashioned telephone handset; it twists closed to form a ring. Speaker is area of horizontal striations at one end; at other end, controls, and black dial.
- manufactured in
- Osaka, Japan
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Credit Line
- Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Accession Number
- 2007-37-5
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- radio
- Type
- radio
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Medium
- plastic (ABS), metal, electronic components
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (in "open" configuration): 15.5 × 15 × 13.5 cm (6 1/8 × 5 7/8 × 5 5/16 in.)
- H x diam. (in closed "O" configuration): 7.6 × 15.6 cm (3 × 6 1/8 in.)
- Record ID
- chndm_2007-37-5
Red plastic radio that, when open, is reminiscent of an old-fashioned telephone handset; it twists closed to form a ring. Speaker is area of horizontal striations at one end; at other end, controls, and black dial.