Name: Buckminster Fuller | Dymaxion Car & Geodesic Dome | Signed Kozo Prints
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The limited edition Kozo Series prints feature separate prints of two of Buckminster Fuller's most famous designs: the Geodesic Dome and the Dymaxion Car.
Printed on Kozo paper, this handmade mulberry paper is similar to that used for the Akari Lanterns by the Isamu Noguchi Museum.
Both prints feature Buckminster Fuller's own signature along with his architectural partners, Shoji Sadao and Thomas T.K. Zung. Lord Norman Foster signatures can be found on the Dymaxion Car series.
Details, Geodesic Dome print:

Features various Geodesic Dome patent illustrations
Geodesic Dome US Patent # 2,682,235 issued 1954
Fig. # 1. Basis of the Geodesic dome geometry
Fig. # 23. Prototype of Geodesic dome structure
Fig. # 18. Basis of Disney Epcot Center dome
Fig. # 13. Basis of the Kaiser Dome, the Hawaii dome
Fig. # 14. Geometry of the Fly's Eye dome
Fig. # 26. Basis of South Pole and Spruce Goode dome. The Temcor domes
Fig. # 17a Basis of Expo 67, US Pavilion, Montreal, Canada
Fig. # 17a Dome geometry of American Society of Metals Hq. & the Climatron
Fig. # 16. Illustration of a buckminsterfullerene nanotube, Nobel Prize C60 by Kroto, Curl, Smalley
Fig. # 26. Basis for elongated Geodesic dome
Fig. # 24. Geodesic dome structural pattern

Details, Dymaxion Car print:

Motor Vehicle, US Patent # 2,101,057 filed 1933. 4D Transportation Unit
The unique three-wheel car designed by Fuller was conceived as transportation, i.e. the artifact could also be a flying machine, a water vehicle, or a land car. The small design models were made by his best friend, the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Assisting Fuller was Starling Burgess, a naval architect who designed the winning J boat for the American Cup Yacht race. Three vehicles were made in Bridgeport, Connecticut, only one remains today.
Car # 1: Hosted riders like Amelia Earhart, H.G.Wells, other luminaries of the day, the car destroyed after a tragic accident. Fuller was not present at the accident, but he was blamed nonetheless.
Car # 2.: This car is owned by Harrah's Historic Auto Museum in Reno, NV. Often exhibited, this car is the only original car in existence, the interior was recently restored by Lord Norman Foster.
Car # 3: Once owned by the maestro Leopold Stokowski, the car is sadly unaccounted and lost.
Car # 4: One of Fuller's close colleagues, the Pritzker prize architect Lord Norman Foster researched the Buckminster Fuller Archives at Stanford University Libraries and Foster reproduced the Dymaxion car using Fuller's original drawings. The car was manufactured by Crosthwaite & Gardiner, UK and first exhibited at Lady Foster's Ivory Press Gallery in Madrid, Spain, 2010.
For additional information: The Buckminster Fuller Archives at the Stanford University Libraries, Department of Special Collections, Stanford, CA. The 2010 book, Dymaxion Car, Buckminster Fuller, Ivory Press, by Norman Foster. Other Fuller information, refer to An Autobiographical Monologue/Scenario by Robert Snyder. In addition, Buckminster Fuller Anthology, St. Martin's Press, and the Southern Illinois Press Revised Anthology Edition by Thomas T. K. Zung.

Limited Edition series, please note that prints do not include frames.
Special instructions included for preserving prints. This item requires special delivery.

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Buckminster Fuller | Dymaxion Car & Geodesic Dome | Signed Kozo Prints

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