The Braun SK 2 was designed by Fritz Eichler and Artur Braun in 1955. The Centre Pompidou credits both designers and identifies plastic as the material of its collection example. That particular museum object is catalogued as a prototype or facsimile without operating components; the accompanying photograph here shows a separate museum example labelled around 1960.
The front is dominated by a regular grid of small openings. A circular tuning scale interrupts this field at the upper right, with two smaller knobs beneath it. A pale casing wraps around the face with softly rounded corners. The repetition of circles connects the speaker perforations to the tuning dial without requiring added ornament.
The SK 2 broadens the Braun story beyond Dieter Rams alone. It shows the work of other designers within the same company during the period when its restrained product identity was developing. Compared with the later T3 pocket radio, its deeper body and paired controls show how a related graphic arrangement could serve a tabletop appliance.
Braun T3 pocket radio
