Berlin

1935 - Buying a balloon, Berlin

retronaut | Image by Friedrich Seidenstücker

Paris

Extremely Rare Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris

curiouseggs| Albert Kahn Museum

Dymaxion House

Interior view of Buckminster Fuller’s “Dymaxion” house. Photographer: John Philips - 1941  

The Dymaxion House made Fuller suddenly famous on the American architectural scene. The house was a turn away from the orthogonal plan, hexagonal symmetry, a tripod supporting pole in the center from which cables stretch out to the decks- like spokes and a rim from the hub of a wheel. The outer walls of vacuum casein elements are a non-load-bearing screen - opaque, transparent, or translucent. The rooms are lit indirectly by a system of mirror prisms. Publication : 1929
Production : Wichita, Kansas : 1944 - 1945

Interior view of Buckminster Fuller’s “Dymaxion” house. Photographer: John Philips - 1941

design.ucla.edu | aqua-velvet

Chesterton Windmill

Chesterton Windmill with man posing outside. c.1930s. Unique stone tower built for Sir Edward Peyto, ('EP 1632' on cap).Major restorations 1776 and 1860. Ceased work 1910. Sails repaired and altered 1930 and later.. Restored 1965-71 by Warwick County Council, Department for the Environment and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and others under the direction of D. Ogden.

windowsonwarwickshire | Libraries Heritage and Trading Standards, Warwickshire County Council

Bob's Java Jive

Mobile teapot refreshment van in Blackpool UK in the 1930s.

follyfancier

Vintage Photo

Flatiron Building (or Fuller Building, as it was originally called) is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of  Manhattan, New York City and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper. Upon completion in 1902, it was one of the tallest buildings in the city and one of only two skyscrapers north of 14th Street – the other being the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, one block east.  As with numerous other wedge-shaped buildings, the name "Flatiron" derives from its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes iron. c. 1920

 Source: shorpy

Vintage Camera Shop

Shutter Shak, This stand-alone building has the shape of a camera, complete with dials and flashbulb on top, and rivals the details of any kitschy roadside attraction.

Source: inherited-values