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Snow White’s Coffin
phonosuper sk 4
This item was sold in 1956 for the first time, and it was a real innovation in a by huge radiogramophones dominated market. This was a new-style radio-phono-combination, Designed by Hans Gugelot and young Dieter Rams, who added the perspex hood, which reminded Gugelot of the fairy tale ‚Snow White’s Coffin‘.
We will not know, wether this was a derogative title given by Hans gugelot, but this stylistic design was a groundbreaking interpretation of design for the future.
The model phonosuper SK4/1 from 1957 is commonly known as Snow White’s Coffin and has it’s place in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was not solely designed by Dieter Rams, also Hans Gugelot and Wilhelm Wagenfeld participated in the developement.
phonosuper sk 4
This item was sold in 1956 for the first time, and it was a real innovation in a market, dominated by huge radiogramophones. This was a new-style radio-phono-combination, Designed by Hans Gugelot and young Dieter Rams, who added the perspex hood, which reminded Gugelot of the fairy tale ‚Snow White’s Coffin‘. We will not know, wether this was a derogative title given by Hans gugelot, but this stylistically design was a groundbreaking interpretation of design for the future.
The model phonosuper SK4/1 from 1957 is commonly known as Snow White’s Coffin and has it’s place in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was not solely designed by Dieter Rams, also Hans Gugelot and Wilhelm Wagenfeld participated in the developement.
phonosuper sk 61
Some improvements took place in 1962: The SK61 came with a stereo turntable and a two channel amplifier. The SK 6 and the SK61 were the first stereo systems of this series. The radio receiver was still in mono, the first stereo FM broadcast came in 1964. Here you could connect a second speaker cabinet and listen to records in stereo for the first time in Braun history.
The speaker cabinet L1 was built in 1957 for the first time, and was a perfect combination with the Braun Atelier 1 radio. But the L1 speaker cabinet is also a perfect fit to the SK series. Technically they were not highly sophisticated, a woofer and a high-frequency loudspeaker is built-in. Later the models L11 and L12 came with two high-frequency speakers.
phonosuper sk 55
The SK 55 appeared in 1963 as the last model in this series and featured some obvious changes from its predecessors. The front grille in the cabinet was divided by a bar, making it more harmonious, and there was a completely redesigned turntable called P2, which for the first time featured an adjustable tonearm. The turntable came with an ELAC KST107 stereo crystal cartridge. Technically, however, the SK 55 was a mono unit; although another loudspeaker could be connected, the power amplifier with 3 watts of power only delivered a mono signal, in contrast to the SK6 series. This Snow White’s coffin was sold for DM 438 at the time.
phonosuper sk 55
The SK 55 appeared in 1963 as the last model in this series and featured some obvious changes from its predecessors. The front grille in the cabinet was divided by a bar, making it more harmonious, and there was a completely redesigned turntable called P2, which for the first time featured an adjustable tonearm. The turntable came with an ELAC KST107 stereo crystal cartridge. Technically, however, the SK 55 was a mono unit; although another loudspeaker could be connected, the power amplifier with 3 watts of power only delivered a mono signal, in contrast to the SK6 series. This Snow White’s coffin was sold for DM 438 at the time.
