Orebro, Sweden

It has been a while since we saw a new photo of this Futuro, it tends to be one of the lesser photographed units, but we recently came across this shot by stanboulain that was posted to Instagram 052820.

Yves Buysse (thanks Yves) recently sent us a link to an old 2011 article on this Futuro that appeared on the website na.se. While the article itself did not really include any new information it was accompanied by two interior photos, the first we have seen of this particular Futuro. The first photo carries no credit so we assume it should be credited to ne.se; the second is credited to Filip Erlind.

We recently came across this short video shot 080916 by John Kassman on Instagram.

The photo below was posted to Instagram by fleursblog. The photo is described as being from the book:

«… Barbie älskar Sverige. The spaceship is Matti Suuronen’s portable «cottage» Futuro, designed in 1968, situated in countryside Sweden.»

The book is described on the website bokus.com in this way (Google Translation of Swedish text):

«Barbie loves Sweden is a hitherto unwritten part of the Swedish pop culture history but also a delicious roadtrip image that celebrates Barbie and the timele

Came across this rather interesting photo of Orebro the other day on photo.sh by saabrobz (originally posted to Instagram).

The photo has an aged appearance but almost certainly this is the result of editing (very well done in our opinion and resulting in a photo we very much like). The logo and associated text on the Futuro is the current iteration (a check in Google Street View confirms this) and, as can be seen in this photo, that has not always been the case.

Achim Breiling recently sent us a link to an old version of the website of the company that owns and uses the Orebro Futuro House captured by the Wayback Machine (In Swedish | Google translation to English here); the company name was Skyltmålar’n.

The Futuro House and/or the company using it may have changed ownership at some point but the domain hosting the website is the same as the current one and, while it is difficult to translate any of the Scandinavian languages using Google Translate, i

Located in Örebro, Sweden this Futuro is owned and used by Tefatet, a company in the signage business.

Interestingly the English translation of the Swedish word «tefatet» is «saucer». In addition if you look at the Tefatet Website you will see that the company logo is a representation of a Futuro (you can see the logo on the picture of the Futuro on their site or in the Google Maps «Street View» by zooming in on the Futuro). We can find no reports of how long the Futuro has been on site or owne