THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG — Eero Aarnio
KERACOLOR TELEVISIONS A 1970s ICON THATS AS GOOD IN BUXUS AS WELL AS GRP!
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In 1966, Eero Aarnio’s futuristic Ball Chair made regular appearances on the ITC television series The Prisoner as Number Two’s seat. This design icon is believed to have been the inspiration for the Keracolor television range introduced in 1970. The Keracolor brand was the brainchild of Arthur Bracegirdle, a designer and businessman who in conjunction with a talented television engineer in the form of Howard Taylor, managed to come up with a commercially viable design that married the Decca 10 series chassis along with a Mullard colour into a futuristically spherical shaped cabinet. The choice of the name Keracolor...