ERICOFON Aka the Cobra

Within the last 100 years the telephone has gone from being something new and exclusive to being a device everybody has with them all the time. But when we are talking about iconic phone design, it is not some new fancy smartphone design that comes to mind but the Ericofon from the 1950s! The design combines the handset and the dial in one unit with a rotary dial placed under the phone. It has been made in many different colours, I have made it in the well-known red. 

The Ericofon has been used in numerous films and TV-shows, mostly in the 1960s and 1970s, but also later when a period correct phone is needed or just when you need a very striking phone in the picture. That means that the phone is still known today when some people have never even tried to use a rotary dial.

My model is built in LEGO-bricks with Technic on the inside to make the angle (and stability) of the upper part. It is the same size as the original telephone.