The television sets in action included two whose cabinets, designed by #JohnVassos & already in production, were rendered for the display in a brand new transparent plastic material (#acrylicpolymer #Lucite) to leave no doubt in viewers’ minds that television was real technology.

#OTD in 1940
‘An advocate for modern and accessible design, Gilbert Rohde exhibited his furniture at the Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco and New York fairs: [designers] #JohnVassos and #GilbertRohde at the “America at Home Exhibition Kitchen,”June 28, 1940’
#NYWorldsFair1939 #NYWorldsFair1940