Hasta La Gadget!

To mark its 10-year anniversary, premium audio company Tivoli created the elegant Model 10 radio. Then it sponsored an international design competition to help spread the word. Now the company has announced the winner: Huan Miao Khoo, a 24-year-old Malaysian man currently getting his Master of Architecture degree in Australia. Khoo’s design (shown here) depicts the Tivoli Audio Model 10 opening like a gift box, revealing an elegant tangle of wires and a violinist inside. Khoo will get a $3,000 top prize and will have his creation displayed in Times Square from now until January 1st.

Tivoli is also getting into the branded store space, as it just opened the Tivoli Design Center, its first store, in the Natick Collection Mall in the Boston area. The idea behind the Design Center was to show off Tivoli’s entire collection, including its many fine wood finishes, in one location.