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Lihula, Lääne County, Estonia [Approximate] | 58°43'24.31"N 23°41'40.63"E

Featured Image By Indrek 'BC' | CC 2.0 | Article Date 101705

 
Google Maps | Satellite Imagery Date 062810

Matsalu, Estonia  
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I recently managed to locate an original press copy of the photograph below; you can find more information on this photograph here.

Press Photo, Baltimore Sun 100868 - London - Front Scan



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Futuro 002 - Thames, London, England, 1968
Futuro 002 on the Thames in London, England in 1968 where it was displayed as part of the Finnfocus-Export Fair the first "mass audience" appearance.

Image courtesy of Marc Berting of 70's Futuro House; one of the longest running Futuro House websites.

The image below is from the website Discover Estonia; the site appears to have gone "the way of the dinosaur" but thanks to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine the page can still be accessed here.

Matsalu, Estonia

Jimi Tenor's "The Year Of The Apocalypse" features Futuro 002



This Futuro has relocated several times. If you have any images of this unit either recent or showing it at one of it's previous locations please let me know.
 
Futuro 002 has seen several relocations since it's first appearance in London, England. Though not the first unit manufactured the appearance of 002 at the 1968 Finnfocus-Export Fair was probably the first time a Futuro was seen in any sort of "mass audience" setting.

The British newspaper the Daily Mail commented at the time that:

"This object, looking like everyone else's idea of a flying saucer from outer Space, is the Finnish idea of the perfect weekend cottage." [Quoted From: Article in The Guardian newspaper by Justin McGuirk dated 051012]

In the years between 1968 and the 70's oil crisis that effectively "killed" any chance of the Futuro really "taking off" [pun intended] there were many who helped shape the public perception of the Futuro in a positive way. Playboy Magazine suggested the Futuro was the perfect bachelor pad in a photo series entitled "Portable Playhouse" and in 1971 at the Lüdenscheide Plastic House Fair Professor Rudolph Doemach declared:

"After the preliminary tests it will probably be possible to use plastic even for apartment buildings. But plastic houses were primarily designed for holiday use, and hundreds of millions will have more and more leisure time in the 1980s." [Quoted From: Scenario Magazine in an article from 2010]

Following it's time in London 002 spent time in Lahnajärvi, Finland serving as a bar located near a Shell Gas Station followed by time serving as a cafe first in Lieto Zoolandia, Finland and the in Parnu, Estonia.

Futuro 002 remained in Estonia but not in Parnu and once again thanks to detective work by Achim Breiling another Futuro has been discovered once more. Google Earth dates the latest satellite imagery to 062810 but contacts have indicated that they have been in touch with the current owner and 002 can therefore be confirmed as still on site at this time.

Futuro 002 has, like other Futuro's been used in the making of a music video; in this case Jimi Tenor's "The Year Of The Apocalypse" - check it out to the left.

Sources & Reference
Got new, updated or corrected information or an image I could use?

I am always looking for additional information, history, details, images, videos; just about anything Futuro I guess - if you would like to contribute please use the Futuro Contact Form at the bottom of the main article or email me.

As far as images go I am particularly interested in those that are either significantly better than the ones already on this page or show a different aspect or detail. If you own an image meeting one or both of those criteria I would love to be able to use it on this page but I will simply provide a link if that is your preference. Where permission is granted to use an image on the page appropriate attribution will be provided by means of a link to the original image, a link to a website of your choosing or both.