[Maison tournante aérienne] / A. Robida.
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Drawing shows a dwelling structure elevated above rooftops and designed to revolve and adjust in various directions. An occupant points to an airship with a fish-shaped bag in the sky lower right. One of the artist's conceptions for his book on life in the upcoming twentieth century. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.)
Title from Robida's book.
Tissandier collection.
Published in: Le vingtième siècle / Albert Robida. Paris : G. Decaux, 1883, facing p. 45.
Retro-Futurism and Vintage [Science] Fiction Images Collection Retrofuturism is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era. If futurism is sometimes called a "science" bent on anticipating what will come, retrofuturism is the remembering of that anticipation.
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