The Ericofon Has Landed Stateside

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

• More Ericofon history here.
• Ericofon at MOMA

Comments (19)

I a similarly designed red one at Pottery Barn a few years ago.

I used to own one of these back in the Seventies. Had it for years until it broke. Loved it.

Am I the only one who thinks it looks like....something else?

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!

umm. ya, that completely looks like a dildo.

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.

We call it "the cobra" in Sweden because it looks like the snake!

Do you think she's drying her hair, inkstained writer?

Beautiful? Not by my standards...

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!

Yeah, the whole model in lingerie really drives home my earlier point...

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.

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.

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.

I thought they looked like joysticks, and that's not a euphemism for something else.

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.