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You missed your chance to own a piece of retro-futurist awesomeness. The Futuro House, a Finnish flying-saucer-shaped masterpiece built (wait for it) in 1968, sold at auction for only $50,000. Also auctioned: a Zen chair, and Buckminster Fuller blueprints.
According to the Futuro House's fansite:
Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed and built a series of ovaloid, flying-saucer-like houses out of fibreglass in the late 1960s. He called them Futuro. Suuronen's houses were comfortably large but light enough to be carried to remote sites by helicopter.
Wright auction house sold the Futuro House on June 2, with a suggested price of between $50K and $70K, but in the end the house fetched only the bottom end of that range — astonishingly cheap for a house, although maybe it's closer to being a mobile home really.
Check out some of the other items that Wright just auctioned off:
Send an email to Charlie Jane Anders, the author of this post, at charliejane@io9.com.
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