It's curvy, baby: Space Age Seventies bachelor pad for sale is perfect for partying in the Florida sunshine
Designed by architect Dan Duckham, who was famous for his genre of organic architecture, The Palmer House in Lutz, Florida, was inspired throughout by the simple circle.
Almost everything in the house is circular, including the walls. Luckily, much of the furniture is built-in.
One of the house's most audacious features are the bubble windows that resemble the helmets of the US astronauts who were astounding the world on the Apollo 14 mission when the house was finished in 1971.
Duckham built the house for a developer who wanted the ultimate bachelor pad on a plot of land he owned in an orange grove featuring two tree-lined lakes.
Little has changed in the last 47 years, with shag-pile carpeted walls in the semi-circular living room adding to the Seventies batchelor pad vibe.
The 1,500sq ft house has two bedroom and two bathrooms, as well as the stunning vaulted circular living area with a built-in curvilinear seating system pointed at the — curved, of course — fireplace.
The bedrooms and study have curving furniture and floor-to-ceiling windows.
Originally the house boasted a very groovy circular, floating swimming pool with a fibreglass deck and an ingenious inflatable rim that filtered the water coming from the lagoon below.
This has been replaced with a modern triangular pool, measuring 39ft on one side and 31ft on the other sides.
Sitting on a third of an acre of land, the pool overlooks Julie Lagoon, a freshwater canal off Hanna Lake, and along with barbecue area and terraces, there’s an outdoor shower to cool off under if you don’t fancy a dip in the pool.
Mod cons include not only air conditioning to keep life pleasant even in the hottest of Florida summers, but a central vacuuming system, something fairly common in modern US homes but rarely seen in Britain, and parking for up to nine cars in the driveway.
Unlike many estates in Florida which are for retirees, the house sits in Park Trace Estate, which is classed as multigenerational, meaning pensioners, families and singletons all live alongside each other, so you won’t have to worry about being thrown out for those Seventies-style parties.
Tampa airport is an eight-hour flight from Heathrow and Gatwick, via several airlines.
The Palmer House is for sale through Sotheby’s International Realty for $350,000, or £260,000 at today’s exchange rate, a sum that in London would only get you a 350sq ft studio flat in Camberwell.