Saturnas vacuum cleaner
Vacuum cleaner. Designed by Vytautas Didžiulis. Produced in Lithuania from 1962, in the Vilnius Electric Welding Equipment Factory during the USSR occupation period, 330 mm x 330 mm x 330mm, made from metal and plastic, presumably plastomer.
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Orbiting around a changing Soviet-era heritage
story by Aleksa Jasiulionytė.When the Cold War was still at full capacity and Space Race era ambitions were taking over almost all parts of life on both sides of the Iron Curtain, the Saturnas vacuum cleaner was created. Currently, some Saturnas vacuum cleaners are being deconstructed physically and culturally in search of identities.