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Looks like Baba Yaga and Wizard Howl were onto something. According to Danish artists Ion Sørvin and Øivind Alexander Slaatto and MIT student Samuel Kronick, walking houses are the ultimate living spaces of the future. The team of three designed a solar-powered, six-legged abode with a living room, bed, toilet, kitchen, and wood stove — and this week, the ambulant invention took its first tour around Cambridgeshire, England. More »
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The Eichler X-100 model home was opened to the public in October 1956. Built in San Mateo, California, and bearing the name of dairy-wholesaler-turned-developer Joseph Eichler, the house was a tribute to modern design and included "such innovations as a revolving fireplace, one entire wall of glass, a plastic skylight like a bomber bubble, two indoor gardens, electrically operated sliding doors that replace all windows, and steel-frame construction to eliminate the need for load bearing walls," according to a contemporary article in the Wall Street Journal. Over 10,000 Eichlers remain in the Bay Area suburbs, where their California Modern design inspires both love and hate. More »
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A dreamy (drugged?) housewife contemplates the best ways of pillaging natural resources from space, sea, and earth in this clip from "Out of This World," a 1964 promotional film for Frigidaire. How do I know she's a housewife? Because when she's done riding through General Motors Futurama exhibit at the New York's 1964 World's Fair, she starts sashaying through ultramodern Frigidaire-appliance-stocked kitchens in a bizarre array of various "ethnic" costumes. View the whole film at the Prelinger Archives. More »
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