Mikro

This travel iron was made in Denmark in the early 1950s, although its appearance references the earlier 1930s 'streamlined' Art Deco style. With streamlining, objects appeared to be aerodynamic, their forms and decoration inspired by contemporary aeroplanes, locomotives and automobiles, or as though they had been formed by a flow of air around them. The use of streamlining for this type of object was not uncommon, designers wished to evoke the emerging post-war aspiration for greater convenience, leading to more leisure time (for example, ‘wipe-clean’ laminated surfaces in kitchens). By designing an object to look fast, it could also be marketed as something that would quickly glide across c

Travel iron · Denmark · 1948-1953. Compression-moulded Bakelite, stainless steel, fabric, other plastics; fabric-backed PVC. By Olesen & Nøregaard. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.