Radio in Cristallo by Franco Albini – Cassina I Maestri Collection.
This radio, mounted between two supporting sheets of tempered glass, was originally conceived by Franco Albini as a prototype model for his own home in 1938. The idea was born when the architect received a traditional wooden-cased radio as a wedding present that same year that, due to its embalmed and clumsy aspect, he decided to take apart and reassemble to maintain only its essential electric components visible.
The project that Cassina proposes today is the result of a subsequent step developed by Albini for industrial production that was presented at the competition for modern furniture held by the Swiss company Wohnbedarf in Zurich in 1940.
