what are your industrial design favorites?

[zeropoint]

I have a National Panasonic GX-300 radio which I received as a gift from my dad many decades ago, and it's still pretty much as new and going strong. Great radio. Was the first radio I had with very decent sound quality courtesy of the large dual concentric speaker.

Not a picture of my radio, just one taken off the internet

 

[zeropoint]

One of my favourite speakers, the Acoustic Research AR12, together with its predecessor, the AR5:

 

[Keith_W]

The OP did not specifically say it had to be about audio, so I am going to do a little homage to Richard Sapper Here are some of his designs:

Artemide Tizio table lamp.

From 9 to 5 desk.

Alessi 9090 Moka Pot

IBM ThinkPad 700C

 

[Soandso]

 

[Soandso]

 

[bothu]

Two nicely designed objects. Cabriolets from Mercedes.



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New design study

Bo Thunér, Sweden.

 

[mhardy6647]

Two nicely designed objects. Cabriolets from Mercedes.



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Bo Thunér, Sweden.

Kind of hard to beat Delhaye (or, I guess, more to the point, various coachbuilders for Delhaye) at this game, though.

 

[Soandso]

 

[IPunchCholla]

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Sadly, probably apochraphal:

"The whole nine yards" or "the full nine yards" is a colloquial American English phrase meaning "everything, the whole lot" or, when used as an adjective, "all the way."[1]

Its first usage was the punch line of an 1855 Indiana comedic short story titled "The Judge's Big Shirt."[2]

The earliest known idiomatic use of the phrase is from 1907 in Southern Indiana.[3] The phrase is related to the expression the whole six yards, used around the same time in Kentucky and South Carolina. Both phrases are variations on the whole ball of wax, first recorded in the 1880s.[4] They are part of a family of expressions in which an odd-sounding item, such as enchilada, shooting match, shebang or hog, is substituted for ball of wax.[4] The choice of the number nine may be related to the expression "To the nines" (to perfection).

Use of the phrase became widespread in the 1980s and 1990s. Much of the interest in the phrase's etymology can be attributed to New York Times language columnist William Safire, who wrote extensively on this question.

 

[mhardy6647]

The origin of that whole "nine yards" thing is actually quite murky.

Whole Nine Yards – A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

It's the Moby Dick of etymology: Where do we get the phrase "the whole nine yards"? A pediatrician in North Carolina wonders if it derives from a World

www.waywordradio.org

 

[Ze Frog]

This is something I've always found to be a real thing of beauty...

 

[Somafunk]

This is something I've always found to be a real thing of beauty...

Everyone should own at least one Alfa Romeo in their lifetime

Alfaholics restomods - I’ll have them all

Totem Automobili

 

[Keith_W]

Everyone should own at least one Alfa Romeo in their lifetime

This was my 1983 Alfa GTV6. Not as beautiful as the 105 series GTA / GTV 1300 pictured earlier. The engine blew up and I sold the car to Danny Ricciardo's father. Danny is the F1 driver. He came to my house with his son. Of course, Danny was a nobody at the time so I didn't even know if it was him or another son. Danny's dad owned an Alfa and was a member of the Alfa club, which is how I knew him.

 

[Silver Ear]

Apt-1 Amplifier and Apt Holman Preamplifier. ID by Charles Rozier (for Apt/ Tomlinson Holman). Bought these in the 1980's. Terrific design and audio quality.
ASR review

 

[Hiten]

Grundig Satellit 650

 

[Ken1951]

Kind of hard to beat Delhaye (or, I guess, more to the point, various coachbuilders for Delhaye) at this game, though.

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Likely a Figoni et Falaschi body. They did many of the most beautiful Art Deco bodies.

 

[Timcognito]

Fada Radios. Many more here https://classicradiogallery.com/classic_plastics2.html#fada

 

[tomchris]

TacT Millennium

 

[mhardy6647]

I had one Fada radio at one point -- but it 1) wasn't Catalin and 2) wasn't particularly interesting looking (nor valuable).

 

[Timcognito]

I had one Fada radio at one point -- but it 1) wasn't Catalin and 2) wasn't particularly interesting looking (nor valuable).

yeah some of those go high $4-figures. Always wanted to find one cheap.