Brian Lewis’s unused art for Usborne’s “Cities of the Future.”
Lewis Dartnell
Underground Library,
Kurkku Fields, Kisarazu City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan,
Hiroshi Nakamura and NAP Architects,
Photo: Kohei Omachi
1966 energy conversion devices by NASA/Glenn research center via archive.org
‘Marshmallow’ Sofa. Designed in 1956 by Irving Harper of George Nelson Associates in New York; manufactured from 1956 to ca. 1965 (and 1999 onwards) by Herman Miller Furniture Company in Zeeland, Michigan. Philadelphia Museum of Art accession number: 1996-30-1.
"This sofa's eighteen cushions are attached to an exposed frame in a radical rethinking of the traditional upholstered sofa. The cushions can be detached for easy cleaning or 'interchanged to equalize wear.'"
(Source: philamuseum.org)
A non-standard architectural solution. A cubic window is like a passage to a parallel world