Why a Danish Brand Brought Back Its 1968 Radio
The reissue keeps the walnut case and the dial, and hides a modern receiver behind both.
By Priya Nakamura
Holm Audio sold its first portable radio in 1968. The reissue keeps the walnut case, the cloth grille and the hand-lettered dial.
Inside is a digital receiver with a battery that lasts a week.
In practice
The company says the old dial is not nostalgia: people find stations faster when they can see them.
The dial is a map. A screen is a list.
Signe Holm, design director
