Brionvega

Brionvea is an Italian electrical company. The company was known for its product design for radio and television sets, with which it occupies a significant place in the history of industrial design.

History and well-known products

The company was founded in 1945 in Milan. Nowadays the company in Pordenone in the Friuli- Venezia Giulia is located. Brionvea was particularly known for his collaboration with famous designers such as Hannes Wettstein, Mario Bellini, Richard Sapper, Marco Zanuso, Achille Castiglioni and Ettore Sottsass. The company was represented in high price segment and had the best of times a status similar to brown. Some products such as the Radio Cube TS502 from 1963, and the portable TV Algol and Doney regarded as a design classic. With the strengthening of the Japanese electronics industry in the mid- eighties, the company got economic difficulties and changed hands several times. Nowadays Brionvea is owned by the Italian manufacturer electric super / / fluo