Radio/phonograph | record cabinet

Manufactured by Scott Radio Laboratories, Inc., this radio/phonograph console combined Swiss technology with a modern design to create an enviable piece of living-room furniture. In the prosperous years after World War II, sleek, new designs like this one with its blonde wood finish began to replace the heavier, darker furniture of the prewar years. Its two matched pieces, one housing the radio and phonograph system with its speaker, the other offering extensive storage for the growing record collections of the period, made a fine coordinated addition to the modern living room. Priding itself in creating "the Stradivarius of radio receivers" (a reference to the world's finest violins), the E.H. Scott Radio Laboratories of Chicago, Illinois, manufactured electronics to fit the modern age. While consumers would still have to wait more than a decade for stereo technology, the Scott company combined its expertise in radios with Swiss company Thorens' engineering in the phonograph to offer American consumers the best in modern technology.