Huntsbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

This Futuro is one of the least photographed and it has been a long time since we saw an up to date photo. That said KC Lai was kind enough to send us this shot he took 051722 while hiking in the area; it’s nice to see a recent shot.

This cool photo of one of these two Futuros during its time in its original location of Hanmer Springs was recently posted to Instagram by fellow Futuro enthusiast futurohouse.

Back on 052415 this page was updated to reflect Hanmer Springs as the original location of one of these two Futuros; that update included the only photo we had seen of that location. Until now!

This photo was posted to Facebook 062119 by Viv Paton in a comment on a post to the Facebook page «50’s 60’s 70’s & 80’s Living in Christchurch».

Yves Buysse recently sent us a link to Spacebug’s webpage and an archived article from the publication Designscape (Issue #86, 1976). The article is about Futuro Enterprises (Christchurch) Ltd. and it included the photo below to illustrate the interior of a Futuro.

It is unclear in the article if this shot was of the interior of the demonstration Futuro at the company’s factory or taken in a unit already delivered to a client. That said the photo is almost identical to this photo of the interio

This week we received the photo below from Nick McQuoid; the photo is of a Futuro located at 24 Chalet Crescent, Hanmer Springs, New Zealand.

We had not come across this particular location previously. Nick tells us the Futuro was in Hanmer Springs from the 1970’s through about 1990 when it was moved to Kaikoura. As we know in the early 2000’s the Futuro was again moved; this time to its current location as one of the two now on Huntsbury Ave. Thanks for the photo and the info Nick.

As is obvious by these pages we spend a great deal of time researching the Futuro House but no matter how many searches we run and how much time we spend there is always more out there that we have not come across. This week Nick McQuoid (owner of three Futuros, two in Rangiora in process of restoration and one disassembled and in storage in Invercargill) sent us a link to a March 2012 post on the Lost Christchurch Facebook Page.

The post included some very cool photos (both exterior and interi

Prior to the early 2000’s there was a single Futuro on this site. New Zealand author and journalist Marjory Staples (who wrote under the «pen name» Rosaline Redwood) and her husband brought the first Futuro to the site and later sold the property to the current owners in August 1997. The second Futuro, previously located in Kaikoura, New Zealand was moved to the site by the current owners in the early 2000’s. In the narrative below we refer to Rosaline Redwood as opposed to Marjory Staples since