Tall and slender is the most aesthetically appealing shape and I am not referring to models here guys! I am talking about Sony speakers. Sony Design has been playing around with speakers, in this instance coming up with this column of glass named “Rin”. The device is a column rising vertically from a stone floor, tapering into a translucent pole from which sound emerges in all directions. The radiating sound defines the space through which it propagates-like ripples produced by a stone dropped in a pond… The base is made from Lombardy marble, long employed for creating acoustic spaces in so many historic churches and salons.This design is part of several others resulting from a temporary union between Sony Design and Master Craft Lombardia, in Italy, in a project to “craft a variety of materials into unique and original pieces that produce sounds and images and are exhibited in a fascinating and suggestive setting.”

Whether this or any of the other designs will ever be produced remains to be seen. I surely don’t mind waiting.
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