Between Earth and Heaven Floats Work of John Lautner

A few years ago, some jottings of the architect John Lautner (1911-94) were discovered, tucked away in a cupboard in his California vacation home since the late 1960s. One thought in the bunch nicely sums up Lautner’s ambition and sheds light on much of his output (including the Jetsonian “Chemosphere,” created in 1960 and pictured above): “The space age is progressing because it is right from scratch with no precedents,” wrote Lautner. “The idea ‘Go to the moon’…We should do this with Architecture.”