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These two videos feature interviews with Mark Haddawy, owner of this Futuro. Neither video is actually about the Futuro.
The first, titled «Talking Watches With Mark Haddawy» is, unsurprisingly, centered around Mark Haddawy’s passion for collecting watches. That said the Futuro does pop up twice though the course of the footage at 0:26 and 8:36 and each time there is a truly magnificant view of Mark’s home, John Lautner’s 1956 Harpel House, with the Futuro nestled behind it. In between there is
The later parts (24 seconds in) of this Kim Kardashian Fendi ad were shot at the Harpel House and the video ends (37 seconds in) with a shot of the Futuro.
We came across these two nice photos on Instagram in the past week. The top photo, by cyknyc is from 060616 and was taken from the Chemosphere. The second photo, dated 101016, is by noremac91.
Art Barrett contacted us recently and also sent us the interesting photo below. Art drove this Futuro from Bailey, CO to its current location and the photo was taken during that journey. Art tells us that the drive was more challenging on the LA end; having driven up Mulholland to get to this Futuro in LA we can see why that might be. Many thanks for sharing the photo Art.
A conference related to the «day job» took us to California recently. Not that it was anything to do with the Futuro for some reason the conference organizer’s saw fit to place an IT conference at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim and let us tell you, you sure do «pay for the mouse».
Anyway we added a couple of days out in California after the conference and on 022815 we were able to visit the John Lautner’s spectacular 1956 Harpel House and the Futuro perched on the hillside behind it. Our thank
In an interview in Volume III Issue 20 (Fall/Winter 2013/14) of the French Fashion Magazine Purple Magazine, Mark Haddawy confirms that this Futuro is indeed the one from 715 Clark Road, Bailey, CO, USA. Mark indicates he has spent the last four years restoring the unit after buying it in a (2009) «design auction».
The interview can be found here. The relevant question and answer reads as follows:
«OLIVIER ZAHM — Can you tell us about the ’70s bubble house?
MARK HADDAWY — Matti Suuronen desi
The photo below was published in a forum thread on Skyscraperpage.com by 3940dxer. The photo is not precisely dated but the narrative of the 092513 post indicates it was taken «last month» so the photo is probably from sometime in August 2013.
Other than the fact that it is a great close up shot of the Futuro what is really interesting about this photo is that it looks like the Futuro is about to get a paint job. The bottom section of the Futuro and the windows are masked with plastic (blue pai
While researching the Bailey Futuro today for the «Lost Souls» page it became apparent that there is a real possibility that this Futuro is in fact the one that was in Bailey, Colorado that was sold at auction in 2009. Cannot be certain which is why we have left «Bailey» in the «Lost Souls» section but it does seem a very good possibility. Details can be found in the Bailey article.
Nestled in among the million dollar residences in Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles is the John Lautner designed Willis Harpel House and set on the hillside behind the house is a Futuro House. The Harpel House is one of Lautner’s most critically acclaimed residences and has recently been restored to its original condition by the current owner Mark Haddawy after a previous owner had extensively altered the building. Following renovation of the main house Haddawy is now restoring the Futuro.
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