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THING of the month
September 2010:
HF 1 television
The HF 1 television Herbert Hirche designed for the Braun company was one of the German pavillion’s sensations of the 1958 world fair in Brussels. It was the first TV worldwide which had a plastic front and showed a minimalism that could hardly be equalled: A (Hirche-) grey laquered wooden corpus on a steel tube stand, just one single button and symmetrically installed speakers at the front. Of course there were further buttons, but they were hidden under a lid on top of the apparatus. The Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge shows original designs for the HF 1 in the special exhibition "brilliant grey – Herbert Hirche's centenary". This drawing shows a variant where the buttons are still visible.
further information on the exbition
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