Norrkoping, Sweden

This Futuro has now been sold and removed to a new location. At this time we have no information about the new owner, where the Futuro has been moved to and what the plans are for it in the future. If and when we know something and have permission to share it we will do so. For the time being we will leave the location for this Futuro the same as we do not know what to change it to.

Recently Catarina, this Futuro’s proud owner, contacted us to let us know that after much soul searching she had realized that she would never have the time to restore her Futuro and do all the things she had planned when she bought it and so, with very mixed feelings, she had decided it was time to sell the Futuro and let some one else enjoy it and dedicate their time to its restoration and preservation.

This is of course one of the three Futuros originally purchased and used by the Swedish Ai

Swedish journalist Fredrik Björkman has published several articles relating to Futuros in Sweden and following the conclusion of the auction for this Futuro he published an article on helahalsingland.se. The article was behind a «pay wall» so we could not access it but Fredrik sent us a transcript of his article; thanks Fredrik.

The auction was won by Catarina Dittschlag of Jönköping. Catarina first came across the Futuro in a design book when she was a kid in the 1970’s and had dreamed of owni

The auction for this Futuro ended 101216 with the winning bid coming in at SEK 500,000 (converted to $56767.85 the last time we looked it up). The next quest is to figure out where the Futuro is going and what plans there are for it! If you have any information please let us know.

The two videos below were shot by Johan Danielson 092216 in order to provide prospective bidders some additional information and views of the Futuro. The videos were recently added to the links on the auction website and are hosted on Vimeo here and here.

In the 1970’s the Swedish Air Force purchased three Futuros from Oy Polykem Ab. These units were heavily modified; in particular they had 7 oversize windows instead of the standard 16 around the circumference of the structure and the means of entry was by ladder directly through the center of the base of the unit instead of the normal door/step unit.

Two of the three were placed on a bombing range in Stråtjära where they were mounted on towers and used to observe and assess bombing practice and