Daliborka Stojšić, Miss Universe of Yugoslavia with MiG-21 Fishbed. 1968 [1080×1375] idk why but I feel like this belongs here
A 19th century prediction of the kind of house the people of the 20th century would be living in from Albert Robida’s Le vingtième siècle [1880-1890].
Multifunctional furniture, 1959, Antoine PHILIPPON, Jacqueline LECOQ. Presented at the 1959 Salon des artistes décoratifs of the 3rd Formica competition, France.
A Compendium of Future Space Activities. Commissioned by NASA in 1976, photo of it taken in 1980. Moon exploration
Renaissance Center, Detroit MI, opened in 1977, designed by John Portman. Weep for the loss of the future that might have been.
Spacecraft interior art by Cesare Reggiani featured in “Space Patrol: The Official Guide to the Galactic Security Force” by Steven Caldwell (1980)
Futuro: A Finnish prefabricated home designed to be used as ski chalets. Alas the UFO design did not take off.
1935 experimental ‘streamlined’ tube train, between South Ealing and Acton Town on the Piccadilly line.
Komazawa Olympic Park Control Tower in Tokyo – 1964. Architect Yoshinobu Ashihara. Ultraman lives here.
The Grand Tour is the first of Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Vision of the Future posters an invites to a space-touristic tour to some objects in our stellar system as well as to exoplanets.
Bersey Electric Cab aka The Hummingbird, an EV taxi cab from 1897! Lasting only 2 years due to the high cost of upkeep we could have had the EV boom more than a century ago!
Sadly this car was never going to be made, it was just an advert for a bank…but damn it’s so cool!!!!