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En L'An 2000: French Chromolithograph Card Imagining the News of the Future
A brass gramophone horn atop a cabinet labeled 'Gazette du XXe Siècle' broadcasts the news to a leisured bourgeois couple — a man sprawled in a wicker chaise longue and a woman in a full Victorian skirt seated nearby. Behind them, an imposing bank of electrical machinery hums against the wall. This charming chromolithograph from the 'En L'An 2000' French postcard series envisions wireless audio news delivery as the ultimate domestic luxury of the year 2000, decades before radio.
Category: Postcard
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Artist: Jean-Marc Côté
Era: Victorian (1837-1900)
Decade: 1900s
Country: France
Coolness: 3/10
Gentle and domestically scaled, the vision is nonetheless prescient — imagining broadcast audio news delivered into the home decades before radio existed. The ambition is conceptual rather than spectacular.
Tags:
retro-futurismmad-sciencecities-of-the-futuregramophonenews broadcastdomestic interiorVictorian coupleelectrical machinerywicker furnitureretro-futurist technologyaudio deviceen l'an 2000French futurismyear 2000gramophoneaudio newspaperVictorian futurismchromolithographpostcardJean-Marc Coteretro-futurismdomestic technologyBelle Époque
Text in image:
“EN L'AN 2000 GAZETTE DU XXe SIECLE”
