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Clairtone Project G

Clairtone Project G1 Hi-Fi Stereo System with Lab 80 Turntable by Hugh Spencer
By Clairtone
Located in Dallas, TX
familiar with the Clairtone project G, I suggest you reference “The Art of Clairtone: The making of a
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Musical Instruments

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Aluminum, Steel

Clairtone Project G2 Series T11 Console Stereo System & Garrard Turntable
By Clairtone
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
. But the most famous Clairtone design was the futuristic Project G series like the one offered here
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Vintage 1960s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Musical Instruments

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Aluminum

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1966 Clairtone Project G with Rosewood Cabinet
By Clairtone
Located in New York, NY
The Clairtone Project G stereo was produced by Clairtone from 1964-67. Costing $2000 new
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Vintage 1960s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Musical Instruments

Clairtone Project G-1 Model T10 Rosewood Stereo System
By Clairtone
Located in Dallas, TX
familiar with the Clairtone project G I suggest you reference "The Art of Clairtone: The making of a design
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Cabinets

First Generation Clairtone Project G T4 Rosewood Stereo System
By Clairtone
Located in Dallas, TX
are not familiar with the Clairtone project G I suggest you reference "The Art of Clairtone: The
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Credenzas

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Stainless Steel

Rare 1960's Clairtone Project G Stereo System
Located in Dallas, TX
you are not Familiar with the Clairtone Project G I suggest you pick up the book "The Art of Clairtone
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Vintage 1960s Canadian Musical Instruments

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Metal

Clairtone Project G 1 T4 Rosewood Stereo System First Generation by Hugh Spencer
By Clairtone
Located in Dallas, TX
familiar with the Clairtone project G I suggest you reference "The Art of Clairtone: The making of a design
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Stainless Steel

Clairtone Project G 1 T4 Rosewood Stereo System First Generation by Hugh Spencer
By Clairtone
Located in Dallas, TX
not familiar with the Clairtone project G I suggest you reference "The Art of Clairtone: The making of
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Cabinets

Materials

Stainless Steel

1960s Clairtone Project G2 Rosewood Stereo System
By Clairtone
Located in Dallas, TX
familiar with the Clairtone project G I suggest you reference "The Art of Clairtone: The making of a design
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Cabinets

Materials

Rosewood

The Project G Stereo
Located in Chicago, IL
Designed by Hugh Spencer The Project G by Clairtone, Silver Medal winner of the 1964 Milan
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Vintage 1960s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards

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The Project G Stereo
The Project G Stereo
H 27.5 in W 84.5 in D 18.5 in
Clairtone Project G2 Rosewood T10 Console Stereo System & Turntable by Al Faux
By Clairtone
Located in Dallas, TX
The G2 is the second generation of the Avante Garde Clairtone Project G Console Stereo System
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Musical Instruments

Materials

Aluminum

Hugh Spencer Brazilian Palisander & Chrome Floating Credenza
Located in Hanover, MA
the silver medal at the 1964 Triennale is the Clairtone Project G Stereo. It is evident that the
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Vintage 1960s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Credenzas

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Chrome

Scarce Midcentury, Clairtone Project G Stereo System
By Clairtone
Located in St. Louis, MO
, Clairtone’s Project G stereo was the epitome of bachelor pad cool. It transformed the traditional console box
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Vintage Clairtone Project G Stereo System for Sale

Sleek, sculptural and impossibly alluring, the Clairtone Project G, a modular Space Age–style stereo system, was a big hit for the audiophiles of yesteryear. Manufactured during what we now know as the era of mid-century modernism, a console stereo such as the Clairtone Project G encased in exotic dark woods might have been the centerpiece of your (sunken) living room. Frank Sinatra and Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner were big fans of the system when it debuted in 1964, and today, Lebron James owns a vintage Project G.

At nearly seven feet in length and resting on a solid aluminum swivel base, the Project G stereo was introduced by an electronics company called Clairtone Sound Corporation Limited, in Toronto, Canada, in 1964. It was designed by Hugh Spencer and features a turntable and receiver inside a comely Brazilian-rosewood cabinet that mirrors the celebrated case pieces crafted by the day’s Scandinavian modernists.

Positioned on either side of the console — and markedly, outside the cabinet, which was revolutionary at the time — are oversize satellite-like sphere-shaped speakers made of spun aluminum. With rotating capability, the speakers promise state-of-the-art sound during any kind of party. The experience came with a hefty price tag, so Clairtone introduced a less expensive iteration — the Clairtone Project G2 — in 1966.

Although fewer than 400 models were manufactured, the Clairtone Project G was featured in Time magazine and won a silver medal at the 1964 Milan Triennale. Vintage audio lovers also don’t need to look too closely to find Project G series models in films such as The Graduate and Zabriskie Point.

Find a vintage Clairtone Project G stereo and other 1960s stereo consoles today on 1stDibs.

A Close Look at Mid-century Modern Furniture

Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.

ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS

VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS

The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.

Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively. 

Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer

Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.

The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.

As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.

Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.

Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.

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