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The Grillo telephone is a 1960s flip-phone telephone from Italy. It was designed by Richard Sapper and Marco Zanuso, and manufactured by Siemens for Italtel. Introduced in 1966, the "Grillo" remained in production until 1979, and was a popular and iconic symbol of 1960s Italian design.
"Grillo" was designed in 1965 by Richard Sapper and Marco Zanuso, who, as a team, also collaborated with Italian companies such as Brionvega, Gavina, Kartell, and Alfa Romeo throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The design was awarded the 1967 Compasso d'oro in Milan and the Gold Medal at the 1968 Ljubljana Biennale of Design (BIO3). Examples are held in many museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the ADI Design Museum and Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia in Milan.
The "Grillo" would subsequently influence the design of flip phone mobile telephones developed during the 1990s like the Motorola Motorola StarTAC and Motorola Razr, as well other electronic devices such as portable computers and games.
The car phone depicted in the early 1970s American television series The Magician is a "Grillo" telephone.
Patrizia Reggiani (played by Lady Gaga) uses a "Grillo" telephone in the 2021 film House of Gucci.
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