One more item before I call it a weekend. I spotted the following on Boing Boing this morning and thought it was just amazingly cool:

According to this source, this hi-fi/television combo console is of German origin and dates to 1958. No detail about how the source came to know these facts, though, so who knows how reliable they are. Wherever this thing came from, it’s another piece of evidence in support of my oft-repeated theory that objects made in the past had far more style than the stuff we have now. I think I want one of these…