1960s Undersea Lounge
Dec. 19th, 2022 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pauldryeAn industrial design student named Russell Heston proposed this undersea lounge in the early 1960s. Donald Deskey Associates noticed, and as they were at the forefront of "cool" design at the time (having come up with the Tide bullseye logo, among other things) they picked him up.
The lounge was an underwater geodesic dome of steel and tempered glass accessed by pressurized lock. This led to a nightclub with two mezzanines and a central staircase. This was all anchored to the bottom, and below that a large chamber housed all the machinery needed to keep the place running.
The lounge was an underwater geodesic dome of steel and tempered glass accessed by pressurized lock. This led to a nightclub with two mezzanines and a central staircase. This was all anchored to the bottom, and below that a large chamber housed all the machinery needed to keep the place running.
