11.23.2010

blow me: inflatable art, architecture and design

Michael Webb
of
Archigram Group
with his
full-size model of the 
"Cushicle"
1967
(David Green inside)
Looks comfy!
I wish I knew what his glasses were all about....

Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton,
 Ron Herron
"Control and Choice Dwellings"
1967

Frank Lloyd Wright
"Rubber Fiberthin Airhouse"
(for the U.S. Rubber Company)
1956

Jean-Paul Jungmann, Jean Aubert, Antoine Stinco
"Architecture Pneumatiques"
Paris
1967

Jean-Paul Jungmann, Jean Aubert, Antoine Stinco
"Architecture Pneumatiques"
Paris
1967

Jean-Paul Jungmann, Jean Aubert, Antoine Stinco
"Architecture Pneumatiques"
Paris
1967

Frei Otto
Inflatable Pavilion
Rotterdam Expo
1958

Nicolas Grimshaw and Partners
Cornwall, England
2001

Haus-Rucker-Co.
"Gelbes Herz"
1968

Haus-Rucker-Co.
"Gelbes Herz"
(Yellow Heart)
1968

Haus-Rucker-Co.
"Oasis 7"
Presentation at documenta 5
Kassel, Germany
1972

"Structures Gonflables"
Musée de la Ville de Paris
1968
LOOK GREG!
There's a "Silver Cloud"!

Otto Piene
"A Field of Hot Air Sculptures Over a Fire in the Snow"
MIT
1969
Totally rad.

Hans Haacke
"Sky Line"
Central Park
NYC
1967

Maurice Agis
"Dreamspace"
This would later
(I think it was the pissed off ghost of Verner Panton....)
Visiona II (Verner Panton)
1970

Bernard Quentin
N.Y. World's Fair
1964

William H. Miller
"Chair"
1944

"Barbarella"
Rodger Vadim director
(That's Jane Fonda being imprisoned by,
it seems like, 
Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne?)
See what I mean???

Walter Bird
"Radome"
Ithaca, NY
1948

Nice segue right?
"Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex"
Woody Allen
1972

"Mr Blowup"
GET INTO IT!
For more
buy
"blowup: inflatable art, architecture and design"
Sean Topham
Prestle

10 comments:

  1. You have the best posts ever!

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  2. p-thanks again for all the balls of sorts..

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  3. Thanks for looking! I do like me some balls....

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  4. p. - i am a looker.
    nice balls ground down to pairs of wheels are there
    http://www.wrenchmonkees.com/
    antiquités to get your rocks off.

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  5. Thanks for another delightful post.

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  6. Sandi- Thanks for lookin'! -MB

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  7. Oh, I'm looking, and you're killing!

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  8. I think the rotterdam FREI OTTO inflatable Pav is not correct, couldnt find anywhere on www and not in books. where do have the picture from????

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  9. Anny Mous-
    Sorry so slow to reply. The image can be found on page 71 of "Blowup: Inflatable Art, Architecture and Design" by Sean Topham.

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