Table Radio TS-G by Hans Gugelot & Helmut Müller Kühn for Braun AG, Germany, 1955

Hans Gugelot is considered to be one of the key figures of the "Second Modernism" in German product design, in which the rational principles, as they were defined at the Bauhaus in the 1920s, were transferred to the new product world and developed further. A good example of this is the collaboration with the electrical appliance manufacturer Braun. This, together with the work of Otl Aicher, shaped the overall appearance of Braun, one of the early, consistent examples of a uniform visual corporate identity (now called corporate design), which was congenially implemented at Braun by advertising manager Wolfgang Schmittel up until the eighties. Gugelot developed a completely new, pioneering design culture for Braun, from which radios, razors, flash and kitchen appliances emerged and which had a lasting effect on design, first in Germany and then worldwide.


Systematics, function and technical innovations were always in the foreground in his developments. Gugelot saw design as an intellectual and moral issue that had nothing to do with taste. At the beginning of the sixties he founded a design studio from which groundbreaking designs.

slight signs of wear. The TS-G table radio from 1955 is one of the really rare devices from BRAUN. Our example in walnut has been very well preserved, both technically and optically. The device plays very well on its 3 speakers, the magic eye, the fine-tuning display, shines brightly and works well. Many stations on VHF can already be received via the built-in VHF dipole antenna. The on / off switch no longer disconnects the device, so the plug has to be pulled. On the outside of the corners there are impressions of the dowels of the horizontal housing parts, the device was probably a bit damp once. Inside, the chassis is rust-free and everything is in good condition, the scale cord is intac