The Garden Egg Chair, Peter Ghyczy, designer (1968; designed in West Germany, produced in East Germany)1yr ⋅ MissNightTerrors ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
1930s architecture looked incredibly futuristic when it was first built2yr ⋅ archineering ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
The Hero, by me: oil on canvas 11X14...a nod to the Sci-Fi book covers that inspired me years ago. Feel free to invent your own story to go with it.1yr ⋅ TurjanofMiir53 ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Receptionist waits at her desk. General Motors Technical Center, 19652yr ⋅ getyourrealfakedoors ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
A Fifties navigation system. Don't know who imagined this but I love it!4yr ⋅ GiantNormalDwarf ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Space couple from the Tomorrowland attraction in Disneyland (1960).1yr ⋅ Trophictrash484 ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Anyone seen the bus stops built in the USSR? Links to more pics in comments1yr ⋅ Bceseal43 ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
1934 Edsel Ford Model 40 Special Speedster. A one-off commissioned by Edsel Ford after he had visited Europe and returned to the US wanting a continental roadster.1yr ⋅ PleasedAsianMale ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
First car CD player in the world. Pioneer CDX-1 from 1984. Advertisement from Danish magazine called “Ny Elektronik’.1yr ⋅ puzzledplatypus ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
The dystopic future of Manhattan as envisioned by architect and artist Hugh Ferriss in the early 1920s. The shadows cast by and onto the futuristic buildings become as important as their revealed external surfaces. New York. 1922. Andy Blair collection2yr ⋅ MyDogGoldi ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
the tyrel corp tower from blade runner set in 2019. futuristic look outside but retro decor inside, as ceiling fans, ...1yr ⋅ Distinct-Question-16 ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Space launch facility inside a volcano, according to You Only Live Twice - 1967 - with retractable lake.1yr ⋅ The_Patriot ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
An epic Paris of the future, illustrated by Moebius, aka Jean Giraud.2yr ⋅ Bernard_Hunor_Deak ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Radio controlled police automatons of the future - 1924, Gernsback11mo ⋅ Mf_doom-28 ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Soviet 2-3-2V and 2-3-2K locomotives, one of the fastest that USSR had to offer1yr ⋅ XMrFrozenX ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
The Elion-Hitchings Building, by Paul Rudolph, 1969. I used to work in it. Also, it's in the movie Brainstorm1yr ⋅ The_Patriot ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
The first Paris Air Show, held at the Grand Palais, France, photographed by Leon Gimpel, 30 September, 19097mo ⋅ aceraspire8920 ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Restored ETR.252-A “Arlecchino” (Harlequin) all first-class heritage train1yr ⋅ ParaMike46 ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
The Union 76 Station in Beverly Hills, 1965; Gin Wong, architect1yr ⋅ MissNightTerrors ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Bitchin' Supercomputer according to The Andromeda Strain - 1971. Yeah, it's RED. Like my Camaro.1yr ⋅ The_Patriot ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
James Bond receives a text via his smartwatch in The Spy Who Loved Me.4yr ⋅ malakeos ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
The linear city (illustration in a Finnish newspaper, 1919): A future apartment building as designed by an American engineer. These newfangled apartments have a tramway in the basement, a boulevard on the roof, and they're surrounded by the countryside.2yr ⋅ UnculturedGames ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
A 103 years old comic talking about what would happen if “pocket telephones” would be invented... [was published on March 1919 in The Mirror - W. K. Haselden’s ‘The Pocket Telephone: When Will it Ring?’] Does this count?1yr ⋅ BlackRobotHole ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Soviet nuclear zeppelins. Three words that inspire confidence... (1976)1yr ⋅ Individual-Sir9004 ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Howard Johnson Anaheim hotel room, inspired by Disneyland's original Tomorrowland2yr ⋅ th3thrilld3m0n ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Hoverboards and delivery drones predicted in a 1958 Soviet cartoon3yr ⋅ GeneReddit123 ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
State Capitol Bank, Oklahoma City, 1962. Architect is Robert B. Roloff.1yr ⋅ Paul-Belgium ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Felt like this belonged here, screenshot from an episode of Loki, the Disney+ series1yr ⋅ WeAreAllMadHere218 ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
This was an actual space suit Grumman Aircraft Corp tried to sell NASA in 1962.6yr ⋅ Novusod ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Space couple from the Tomorrowland attraction in Disneyland (1960).1yr ⋅ tritelyambulate60 ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
One of the earliest works by David A. Hardy, dates from 1952, when he was 15 years old.1yr ⋅ Paul-Belgium ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Found this on Facebook: a 1939 GM Futureliner, Parade of Progress.1yr ⋅ TurjanofMiir53 ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction cover art, May 1965, by Mel Hunter.1yr ⋅ Paul-Belgium ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
Tintin as Astronaut: Explorers on the Moon, 1954 (15 years before Neil Armstrong!)1yr ⋅ MissNightTerrors ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
The World of Computation Not That Long Ago: Late 50s/early60s IBM Data Center1yr ⋅ arturasble ⋅ r/RetroFuturism
