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12-495: The company was founded in 1945 in Milan by Giuseppe Brion  [ it ] (who had previously worked at Phonola  [ it ] and Radiomarelli  [ it ] ), Onorina Tomasin-Brion , and Leone Pajetta. Initially named B.P.M. Radio, then changed to Vega BP Radio, and finally "BRIONVEGA", when the company was rebranded in 1963. In 1954 Brionvega introduced the first Italian made television sets after entering into

24-417: A contract with the country's national broadcaster RAI . In the early 1960s Brionvega began working with notable architects and industrial designers including Franco Albini , Sergio Asti , Rodolfo Bonetto  [ it ] , brothers Achille , Livio , and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni , Mario Bellini , Richard Sapper , and Marco Zanuso . These collaborations resulted in a decade of design innovation and

36-1224: A number of Brionvega products in its collection. In 2016 a Brionvega RR 126 radiogram once owned by the singer David Bowie was sold by Sotheby's in London for £257,000. Giuseppe Brion Look for Giuseppe Brion on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Giuseppe Brion in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

48-472: A telling history of Italian post-war industrial design almost entirely through the products of Brionvega". In more recent decades, the company continued its practice of collaboration with acclaimed designers including Ettore Sottsass , Michael Young , and Hannes Wettstein  [ de ] , periodically introducing new products such as the Alpha LCD television, presented at Salone del Mobile in 2007, and

60-543: Is the largest science and technology museum in Italy. It was opened on 15 February 1953 and inaugurated by Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi . The museum, in the ancient monastery of San Vittore al Corpo in Milan, is divided into seven main departments: Each of these departments have laboratories, especially for children and young students. The Transport section is made up of four different parts: air, rail, water and Submarine Enrico Toti-S-506 . The Materials section treats

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84-470: The Brion family sold the company to Italian electronics manufacturer Sèleco (which was subsequently acquired by Industrie Formenti  [ it ] in 1998, and eventually declared bankrupt in 2004). Brionvega has gone through several changes of ownership since, and as of 2022 was still active marketing re-editions of the designs from its 1960s and 1970s heyday, as well as some more recent products. Many of

96-550: The WearIt portable speaker in 2016. An updated version of the original Cubo television was produced in 1992 with the same exterior casing and updated electronics. Two of the other 1960s products, the Doney and Algol television sets, were also re-issued in limited edition runs. The TS 502 portable radio and the RR 126 radiogram have both been re-issued and updated in several different versions. In 1992,

108-1008: The company's products are held in museum collections including the ADI Design Museum in Milan, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Victoria and Albert in London, the Powerhouse Museum (Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences) in Sydney, and the Cooper Hewitt and Museum of Modern Art in New York. The University of Parma holds a large collection of archival material relating to the company including sketches, drawings, prototypes, examples of Brionvega products, brochures and advertising materials. The National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan also holds

120-546: The first character; please check alternative capitalizations and consider adding a redirect here to the correct title. If the page has been deleted, check the deletion log , and see Why was the page I created deleted? Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Brion " Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci in Milan , dedicated to painter and scientist Leonardo da Vinci ,

132-674: The introduction of products such as the Algol 11 and Doney 14 television sets, TS 502 "Cubo" radio, the RR 126  [ it ] radiogram , which was introduced in 1966, followed by the "Cubo" television in 1969. The designs that the company manufactured during this period were recognised in their time with awards such as the Compasso d'Oro and Biennale of Design (BIO), and have since become regarded as icons of 1960s Italian design. Alba Cappellieri writing for Domus magazine stated that, "You could write

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144-458: The life cycle of modern products from raw materials to recycling . Specific sections are dedicated to polymeric and synthetic materials and to basic chemical manufacturing. There is also a metal section that illustrates the metal extraction and processing techniques and exhibits the first electric arc furnace for melting steel invented in 1898 by Ernesto Stassano. The Transport section is divided in four different sections: The Energy section

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