Description: Restored/refurbished museum piece: BRAUN SK 4 “Snow White’s Coffin” from 1956, design: Dieter Rams/Hans Gugelot, record player design: Wilhelm Wagenfeld, integrated LP player, mini-jack connection (smartphone/airport/etc.), additional speaker connection, top sound & condition! L/W/H 58x29x25cm Note: The first and rarest of Dieter Ram’s “Snow White Coffins”. This model can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Arts MOMA in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. It is almost impossible to find and certainly not in such good condition.

Note: Thanks to the modern audio connection from BLISS, all modern audio devices can be connected. By connecting a smartphone, you get a complete audio system. With apps like ShoutCast, you can choose the international radio station that plays your favorite music. With an Airport Express (Apple) you can send music from your computer directly to this beautiful, original audio device and enjoy your music in incomparably rich, warm sounds.

Note: For pictures & background information on BRAUN & APPLE design see below(download).

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The “Spiegel” magazine once wrote that the “SK 4” radio-phono combination looked like a “UFO among steam locomotives” compared to the radio models of the kidney-shaped table era.
Hans Gugelot (1920-1965), lecturer at the Ulm College of Design, and Dieter Rams (*1932), then 23 years old and employed by Braun as an architect, originally planned a body made entirely of white lacquered sheet metal, which was cheaper than traditional wooden cabinets.
Only the sides were to be made of maple.
However, the vibrations of the built-in loudspeaker set the planned sheet metal lid in motion and it rattled.
An alternative had to be found.

Dieter Rams suggested using a cover made of transparent acrylic glass.
He traveled to Ulm, discussed the new solution at length with Gugelot, and both created a new type of product with a transparent cover.
Whether in mockery or in recognition, the “SK 4”, which was launched in 1956, was soon known simply as the “Snow White Coffin”.
A milestone in Braun design and also one for Dieter Rams, who was chief designer at Braun from 1961 to 1995.
The contrast between the straight-lined housing and the organically shaped pickup, which Wilhelm Wagenfeld had already designed, is appealing, even if not in the minds of the two designers.