For his or her fifth collaboration, Saint Laurent Rive Droite and Bang & Olufsen are again, this time the enduring Beogram 4000c turntable.
The turntable was initially launched within the Nineteen Seventies and shortly grew to become an era-defining piece of aesthetic sound gear. For this launch, Saint Laurent and Bang & Olufsen have restored ten unique Beogram 4000c turntables, optimizing them for contemporary use. Each bit comes with a strong ziricote wooden case, accented with aluminum particulars and individually numbered. Nonetheless, hand-crafted restoration doesn’t come low-cost. The modernized turntable will price you €30,000 EUR (roughly $31,000 USD).
Saint Laurent and Bang & Olufsen’s collaboration initially started in 2017, a yr after Anthony Vaccarello took over as artistic director of the model. Earlier iterations of the partnership have included the Beoplay 8 earbuds, the Beoplay speaker, and the extraordinarily restricted Beosound A9.
Along with Bang & Olufsen, Saint Laurent has additionally collaborated with Fender, opened a Paris outpost of LA-based restaurant Sushi Park, and hosted a sequence of artwork exhibitions within the newly renovated Rive Droite areas. Partnerships reminiscent of these are consultant of Vaccarello’s efforts to rework Saint Laurent from a vogue home right into a extremely curated experiential life-style model.
The Beogram 4000c turntable is just not on the market but however shall be within the coming weeks at Saint Laurent Rive Droite shops in Paris and LA in addition to on-line at YSL.
