phase 1

Household

phase 1

R. Weiss + D. Rams + D. Lubs

Year
1971
Dimensions
Dimensions not listed by source
Timeline scale
160 mm front width used for timeline scale
Archive ID
dasprogramm-206

A lovely example of stylistic over-reaching: the space age form of the body contradicts the archaic turning mechanism of the faceted drum display. The phase 1 belongs to a period of technological optimism when space travel was still nervously calculated by slide-rule. The design was developed from a set of preliminary concepts developed by Reinhold Weiss in 1965. supply: 220 V ~ /50 Hz