Quasar Khanh, pioneer of inflatable furniture, with wife Emmanuelle and children in the pneumatic house he designed in 1968pic.twitter.com/3hoipP2AIN
Poet, researcher. Recent books: Grand Tour (Hanser 2019) Translation & Geography (Routledge 2016) Un esilio perfetto (Feltrinelli 2015) L'impronta (Aragno 2014)
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Quasar Khanh, pioneer of inflatable furniture, with wife Emmanuelle and children in the pneumatic house he designed in 1968pic.twitter.com/3hoipP2AIN
Inflatable utopia: the Pneumakosm, a pneumatic dwelling unit, designed in 1967 by Viennese avant-garde group Haus-Rucker-Co and 'Oase No. 7', created by Haus-Rucker-Co for Documenta 5 in Kassel (1972)pic.twitter.com/pHNRVUqDcx
The 'Dyodon', an experimental pneumatic house designed by Jean-Paul Jungmann in 1967pic.twitter.com/W9zt9CuY31
Jean-Paul Jungmann and the group Utopie (with J. Auberg & A. Stinco in collaboration with H. Tonka and J. Braudillard among others) evoked in 1968 "the rise of a symbolic, inflatable fraternity between disciplines, across political and social boundaries" https://books.google.at/books?id=pGzZYJd4BmwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Inflatable+Moment:+Pneumatics+and+Protest+in+%2768&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjL_6vPltjbAhVRPFAKHR8fA0AQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/hTIzzTCgCY
The legendary Instant City, a temporary, self-built settlement made with inflatables and staple-guns, designed by José Miguel de Prada to overcome the lack of accommodation for participants of the VII Congress of ICSID in Ibiza (1971) https://www.domusweb.it/en/art/2012/10/15/utopia-is-possible.html …pic.twitter.com/9K0SBgychD
German architect Frei Otto was profoundly attracted by the prevalence of pneumatic forms in nature and started already in the 1950s to experiment with soap bubbles. Here's one of his soapsuds experimentspic.twitter.com/fY9SQOaPXR
A 1972 Playboy article praising the Polyvinyl Pneudome, or the inflatable bubble house, created by a Los Angeles design group named Chrysalis http://www.goretro.com/2016/02/retro-product-fail-12-inflatable-bubble.html …pic.twitter.com/Gv8ydlCfuv
A photograph documenting 'Structures gonflables', an exhibition organized in 1968 by the group Utopie at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris on "the art, technology, and imaginary of inflatables" http://www.jeanpauljungmann.fr/expo_structures.htm …pic.twitter.com/joD6I4u0v8
NASA's inflatable space habitats: the Erectable Torus Manned Space Laboratory, designed by a Langley space station team with the help of Goodyear Aircraft Corporation (1961) https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4308/ch9.htm and the inflatable lunar habitat proposal (1989) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflatable_space_habitat#/media/File:Inflatable_habitat_s89_20084.jpg …pic.twitter.com/1ZfQuCK6bO
The inflatable, mobile concert hall 'Ark Nova' (2013–2017) by architect Arata Isozaki and artist Anish Kapoor http://anishkapoor.com/957/ark-nova pic.twitter.com/vaNTDd36J0
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