KX100 Phonebox Tea Towel

This graphic tea towel design celebrates the KX100 telephone box model, available exclusively at the C20 Shop, and with all proceeds supporting our ongoing campaign.

• Screenprinted 100% cotton tea towel
• Designed and produced in the UK
• 48cm x 70cm
  
  

Guardians of the phonebox

Launched in 1985, C20 Society's famous phoneboxes campaign has led to the listing of more than 3,000 kiosks across the UK and helped saved countless more. The campaign began by fighting for the classic red K2 and K6 models by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, was revived for the rare 1960s K8 model designed by Bruce Martin, and now continues with the latter-day 1980s KX100 kiosk.

The KX100 was designed in 1985 by David Carter Associates (DCA), industrial designers whose output ranged from the classic Stanley Knife to the Le Shuttle trains for the Channel Tunnel. The brief was to produce a modern, cost-efficient, vandal-proof, rust-proof and well ventilated modular unit, to replace the ageing models of kiosk. The unashamedly contemporary design was never universally popular, but C20 has applied to list just three national exemplars - the last in the line as the end of the public payphone beckons.