<img width="640" height="640" src="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1994-31-122-a_c-700x700.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Image features rectilinear desktop telephone in red and black, with handset at top, black keypad with green, yellow and blue number and function keys on left, rectangular gray panel with logo on right. Please scroll down to read the blog post about this object." style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1994-31-122-a_c-700x700.jpg 700w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1994-31-122-a_c-150x150.jpg 150w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1994-31-122-a_c-300x300.jpg 300w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1994-31-122-a_c-640x640.jpg 640w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1994-31-122-a_c-170x170.jpg 170w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1994-31-122-a_c.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="31938" data-permalink="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2018/11/19/communicating-in-style/1994-31-122-a_c/" data-orig-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1994-31-122-a_c.jpg" data-orig-size="1024,1024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="1994-31-122-a_c" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1994-31-122-a_c-300x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1994-31-122-a_c-700x700.jpg" />Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, the design team and one-time couple Gideon Löwy and Lone Lindinger-Löwy created a series of telephones called BeoCom, made for the Danish consumer electronics manufacturer Bang & Olufsen. The prefix “beo” is standard for all of Bang & Olufsen’s major products and the ending references the device’s purpose:...
