Mona’s David Walsh has restored one of the cult prefabs and says one day he’ll make it available to the public ‘at an exorbitant fee of course’
Futuro “UFO houses” are scattered around the world – disintegrating in forests, gleaming on hilltops and peeking out of back yards.A “smitten” David Walsh, the founder of the Museum of Old and New Art , has restored one of the cult, prefabricated houses and says one day he’ll make it available to the public “at an exorbitant fee, of course”.
Promised as the mass producable, portable holiday homes of the future, only somewhere between 60 and 100 were made in the end. Of those surviving, about seven are in Australia. Mona architect Nonda Katsalidis designed the interior, which features cool hues and 70s-style orange. They are now restoring another Suuronen design, a Venturo – while still rounded, the Venturo has more of a capsule shape.
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