This makes us (almost) wish we still had our landline. We just learned that Velocity Art and Design will begin carrying the reintroduced Ericofon. This stylish push button phone was originally introduced to the American market in the mid-'50s, and has now been named the ScandiPhone in reference to the phone's Swedish roots.
The Ericofon was the smallest and lightest phone that had ever been manufactured and was originally intended to be used by hospital patients. It made a huge impact on the American market, where it was offered in 18 colors. It has become such an iconic design that it's even in the collection at MOMA. To get you in the mood, we found some vintage Ericofon advertisements here.
Looks like a Ericofon collection can get out of hand. This is a collection of 89 unique Ericofons.
The ScandiPhone is available for $60 from Velocity Art and Design
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I a similarly designed red one at Pottery Barn a few years ago.
view I Love Upstate's profile
I used to own one of these back in the Seventies. Had it for years until it broke. Loved it.
view click212's profile
I've never heard of this :( Now I want one (I already have 3 vintage phones but nothing of significant design). There are several on eBay if you want an original issue in a range of fairly low prices, I'd say. However, someone is asking $600.00 for the promotional cufflinks!
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Am I the only one who thinks it looks like....something else?
view inkstainedwriter's profile
Um, noooooo....
view K T G's profile
omg my parents had one just like it in the 70's. a green one. in fact, one of my first memories involve that phone!
view lovelyrita's profile
umm. ya, that completely looks like a dildo.
view terka27's profile
This would be more useful and appealing to me if it were cordless.
And I agree, it ain't called the "Scandiphone" for nothing! Imagine the raised eyebrows from visitors.
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We call it "the cobra" in Sweden because it looks like the snake!
view gamasujo's profile
Do you think she's drying her hair, inkstained writer?
view Kate (NC)'s profile
**drool, drool, drool**
view H is for Home's profile
Beautiful? Not by my standards...
view SherryBinNH's profile
Yep, sex toy.
view prairie girl's profile
what happens when you need to press 1 for customer service..another useless gadget.. but if you have one for the sake of prop only then so be it.
expensive sex toy!
view LoriSF's profile
Yeah, the whole model in lingerie really drives home my earlier point...
view inkstainedwriter's profile
Love these! Reminds me of the phone's Number 2 uses in the old 60's TV show The Prisoner. I gotta get my hands on one of these.
view suzy8track's profile
How exciting! We have the knock-off from Pottery Barn in red (also the donut phone) but I may have to get the reproduction if it comes in orange. I would get the vintage if I did not like the convenience of touch-tone.
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I'm soooooo glad I wasn't the only one who's mind went in the gutter on this. No one else had said anything so I crept away quietly, ashamed of my dirty mind.
view BambiJo's profile
I thought they looked like joysticks, and that's not a euphemism for something else.
view Orchid64's profile
My father used to work at the Swedish public telecommunications company so we never had a shortage of phones in our house. I have two Cobras at home right now. Both are functional but one of them is made for a touch tone dialing system which is not in use in Sweden. I think it was made to work in the US but I'm not sure. Its still a beautiful phone though. I have them both out just for looks.
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A new twist on phone sex?
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