By Regina Sienra on March 13, 2026
Nowadays, all your favorite music is just a few taps away. But back in the day, people required sizable appliances, plus physical copies of an album or song they wished to play. This meant you needed specific devices that could play them, as well as storage for one’s music collection. Drawing from these retro pieces of furniture from the 70s and 80s, audiovisual artist and woodworker Love Hultén created his own version of a music-playing machine that doubles as a music storage stand.
Working out of his workshop in Gothenburg, Sweden, Hultén is known for his distinct retro-futuristic aesthetic. He often builds custom pieces commissioned upon request. This time, a client asked him to create his own version of the Philips Rosita Commander Luxusfrom 1970, a console-like appliance that played both vinyl records and cassette tapes on the same device.
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