Recognised as a twentieth-century ‘design icon', the first one-piece telephone on the market embodied expectations for a brighter future — The ‘futuristic’ form of the Ericofon may conjure imagery of 1960s science fiction or, in the case of the bright orange model, 1970s Pop Art optimism. It seems to proclaim, ‘this is tomorrow’, but the concept was born during the interwar Modernist revolution. As early as 1930, the Swedish telecommunications…