Wireless

This radio, or wireless as it would have been known when it was first made, combined new technology, materials and style. The Ekco Consolette number SH25 is an early example of a mass-produced mains table wireless, and was the first set to have the stations marked on the dial. The Art Deco case, designed by J. K. White, exploited the possibilities of Bakelite, a new plastic which enabled complex shapes to be moulded in high-speed industrial processes. The Art Deco style was popular for such small decorative household objects. Radio broadcasting had been made possible in the UK only in 1920, as a result of Marconi’s experimental radio station in Essex. Radio rapidly became a popular form of e

Wireless · Southend-on-Sea · 1932. Compression-moulded phenol-formaldehyde ('Bakelite'), copper, woven fabric. By White, J. K.. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.