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This Week’s Winning Entry:

Yes … it’s The Little Mermaid’s house. Prince Eric wasn’t too happy but Sebastian loves the joint! ~ JSuth

This settlement on Tatooine — sorry, this “totally a home on Earth, for real”– called the Bubble Palace was conceived in the 1970s by architect Antti Lovag. He was commissioned to design the home near Tourrettes-sur-Loup in France by an eccentric wealthy industrialist, but when the deal fell through, designer Pierre Cardin, the fashion guru who created the bubble dress, took on the house in 1989. That’s right: Not one, but two separate people not only immediately loved the idea of living in a bubble bath but also were actually in the position to finance said sprawling bubble compound.

All the rooms in the villa are round, with no straight edges anywhere in the house — not even the beds. Cardin says it’s because, “The circle is my symbol; the sphere represents the creation of the world and the mother’s womb.” The architect who built the house says it’s because straight lines are “an aggression against nature … human beings have confined themselves to cubes full of dead ends and angles that impede our movement and break our harmony.”
Okaaaay. But, in all honesty, we like the Little Mermaid idea more.