Every MAGNO radio represents a one-of-a-kind piece, crafted by hand in 16 hours.
It features a consecutive production number.
The sound is very pure and resonant due to the radio receiver employed and its especially suitable wood (made of East Indian rosewood, the same material from which many musical instruments, such as flutes and guitars, are made).
The digital radio receives FM and AM.
MP3, IPod, headphone input
Comes packed in an elegant box made of hard paper.

Materials

• Light wood: pine
• Dark wood: East Indian rosewood

Recommended care for the radio: rubbing in a drop of pine or teak oil on its surface every once in a while.

Dimensions:
Length 13.4cm x width 8.8cm x height 9.8cm

Manufactured entirely by hand in the workshop of the designer. Marginal deviations are therefore possible.

Energy source:
2 AA batteries (1.5V x 2). Built-in rechargeable battery. DC in 3V with external A/C adaptor power supply (not included)

Use the Senta Wooden Headphones to complete the retro look!

Selecting the Wood
Regional wood is purchased for the Magno radio. The designer buys it in the surrounding villages personally. Thus it is guaranteed that no uncontrolled wood is used. All varieties of wood being utilized are from tree plantations, not rainforests. The amount of wood needed is extremely small: they used 80 trees in 2010 but replanted 8000 all around the village of production. Kartono and his co-workers replace the wood that has been used by planting new trees systematically. A small tree nursery had been set up on the company’s compound as well. The seedlings are planted on a regular basis, with the collaboration of students at the local high school.

More About Magno
The wooden radio by Magno is fabricated by hand, piece by piece, at Singgih Susilo Kartono’s workshop in Temanggung in Central Java (Indonesia).
What initially started as a makeshift solution at the house of the designer has developed into a manufacturing location employing young wood handicraftsmen. The workers have to learn how to work with wood for about a year before they are capable of meeting the requisite high standards of quality. Many of the tools had to be invented from scratch so that they would comply with the Magno manufacturing requirements.
We decided to invest our budgets not in first world based certification companies but in our own ecologic program, our eco-farming and in our tree nursery. Our ecologic concerns and efforts have been witnessed by eco-organizations like Greenpeace or the WWF, by designers and journalists who have visited our production-workshop – even the nomination and short-listening for the Copenhagen based Ecodesign-Award INDEX proves our ecologic actions.
A factory workshop was completed not long ago in which 50 young high school graduates will learn how to work with wood. The handicraftsmen are to work in airy and bright rooms that do not impart the feeling of a production plant but, instead, integrate nature, wind and light.
The construction of an annex is scheduled for the future, in which the village school children can make their own wooden toys. Alongside learning a profession, the workshop assures the livelihood of many families in Temanggung on a long-term basis.