Here's a fun photo of my tiny bedroom, where I have a suspended
display of "atomic bomb, rocket ship and flying saucer"
inspired tanks and canisters.

I have completely rearranged my room, moving the bed to a
different wall from where it was and gaining more access to the
shelf that run the length of the other wall.

This photo is a crudely spliced together panoramic view of my
room, starting at the bed as you are standing in the doorway
facing it. Then your view moves to the right to my night table,
and then over to the wall o' vacs! The places where I joined
the photos don't quite meet but you get the general idea.

My camera does have a "panorama" function but dummy me has
never quite figured out how to do it right.

Starting with the blue tank at the far-left-upper corner
and going clockwise:

- Eatonia (Canadian)

- Universal

- Royal

- Kenmore Commander

- Fairfax (S1)

- Westinghouse tank #1

- Westinghouse tank #2 (The I Love Lucy "Sales
Resistance" model)

- Air Queen (behind the hats on my bureau so you can't see it)

- Universal

- Modern Age Deluxe (made by Universal)

- "The All-Seeing Beach Ball"

- Hoover Constellation

- Sony TV (!)

- Hoover Celebrity

- Compact Magic Disk

- and back to the Eatonia

The machines that are not on the shelf are suspended from the
ceiling by wires.

There's also a "MagicAire" tank on the floor under my night
stand.

And along the floor - Compact C2 in hassock, Lewyt 44 in
hassock, Wilfa (Swedish) in trunk, Astro, and G.E. Roll Easy

More pix to come later of some of the individual machines as
well as of my main display, which is in the room that also
houses my office -- it's technically the master bedroom of this
apartment and my bedroom is technically the dining room. Call
it creative arrangement of a living space!

is entitled "Michael Pedroni / Mezzotint Montage Prints."

It's an art poster from a series of mezzotints the artist created for an art exhibition in the late 1980s that showed, among other places, at UCLA.

I got an email from him one day in the mid 1990s, expressing admiration for my web site which he had happened to come across, or that someone had told about, I don't remember now.

He emailed me a small JPEG of this "Electrolux Train" poster. The poster itself was produced with the same Mezzotint process as the pieces in his art show. (See link) He told me he had a very few signed and numbered copies of the poster left. He made me "a deal I could not refuse" on one.

When I got it, I had it framed in a "gun metal gray" frame at a great framing store in Los Angeles.

This print is truly the "crown jewel" of my bedroom! (Not to be confused with the "family jewels" hahaha)

Hey Charles, that is such a cool poster and I love your vac display too, wish I had room in my house for all of my vacs....

Charles,
Great display!!! That poster is outstanding. It is definitely a prize. Are they on the market anywhere that you know of?

Imagine doing a restaurant like this..!! After all...there is the famous dining establishment out your end of the country in the Napa Valley called, "The French Laundry." So why not..."the Sweedish Vacuum," or "The Electrolux Diner!" or "The Kirby Kitchen," Imagine a deco/retro diner done up like a Model XXX!

Bruce

Love the poster, It really brings out the streamline styling!

The more I look at old Electroluxes, the more I am convinced that they are/were an inspiration to the artwork of H.R. Giger. They are very biomechanical.

What a great term. But it applies not just to Electroluxes, but really nearly all vacuum cleaners of that ear; indeed, every facet of industrial, architectural and artistic design in the 1930s can be readily identified by its form.

Even the most casual survey of machinery, appliances, automobiles, mass transit vehicles, buildings, architecture, industrial design, household objects, small and large appliances, electronic devices, art, sculpture, even musical instruments, will reveal this "biomechanical" aesthetic you're referring to.

The era roughly from 1930 to 1939 was termed (after the fact) the "Machine Age."

The Machine Age era runs a close second, almost a tie actually, with the Atomic Age era (roughly 1947 [post WWII] to about 1965 [when the "Postmodern" era began - elements of which have endured to the present day]), as my favorite era in terms of design aesthetics.

this link:

I just love you're Hoover Celebrity.