Optic Alarm
Object Details
- Designer
- Joe Colombo, Italian, 1930 – 1971
- Producer
- Ritz Italora
- Description
- Black, arched case; white face with ring of 12 yellow-encircled black "hour" dots surrounded by a ring of corresponding numerals interspersed with small black "minute" dots; black, lozenge-shaped hour hand with hole at end to reveal "hour" dots, thin black minute hand, thin red second hand. In small print on bottom of face: "Optic / MADE IN ITALY / Alarm."
- Credit Line
- Gift of Barry Friedman and Patricia Pastor
- ca. 1968
- Accession Number
- 1986-99-39
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- timepieces & measuring devices
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- Alarm clock
- Type
- Alarm clock
- Medium
- Plastic, metal
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 8.3 x 8.3 x 8.3 cm (3 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1986-99-39
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq49caaf2f8-bd32-463c-a724-c375b3b48f11
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