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| Allan Elder, Made in Canada: Craft and Design in the Sixties, McGill-Queen's Press 2005 |
This is a 1971 sketch for the Electrohome Hemisphere '80 future concept, a look into the far-off future of home entertainment, with a spherical TV projection and speaker unit suspended from the ceiling, operated with a remote control and accessing a proposed Canadian communications satellite system. This concept was never realised.
This concept was the work of Gordon Duern, a Canadian designer and artist employed by the company and followed the introduction of his earlier Electrohome Apollo 860 stereo (shown below).
During the late seventies, the company struggled under the wave of Japanese electronic imports and got out of the consumer market in the eighties.
The Duke posted the history of the Dominion Electrohome company here.
Yea not much new in new home construction for the past 120 years or so. Still boxes attached to other boxes made out of wood sticks. One reason for that is the wood industry has a choke-hold on construction, other methods just won't pencil out.
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