The “Real” Flaming Lips’ Bathroom
Do you remember the last Beat Boxed post I did a few weeks back with the Flaming Lips inspired bathroom? Well I was pretty sad when I found out I wouldn’t be seeing The Flaming Lips playing at this year’s Coachella. But I was ecstatic when I was contacted by FitzSimmons Architects, the masterminds and architects behind the renovation of The Flaming Lip’s Oklahoma residence featuring the “real” Flaming Lips inspired bathroom pod. This bathroom is just incredible! As Mr. Wayne Coyne says, “now you are entering into the, drug damaged, artist element of our home.”
Wayne Coyne’s imagination is constantly running wild and this space definitely does not try to stop it. As Wayne says, he can get up in the morning and go from his “strange, artistic bedroom” and into his ’”strange, futuristic bathroom.” His dreaming doesn’t have to end when he gets out of bed.
I cannot even tell you how inspired I am by FitzSimmons Architects and the Flaming Lips. This unique space truly captures the spirit of The Flaming Lips and then some. Just like any other artistic expression that Wayne Coyne is involved in, this is visually magical. When you combine this talent with an architecture firm that “approaches architecture as a form of art, creating built forms and spaces that both inspire and serve as meaningful places of purpose” you end up with a masterpiece.
Wayne’s wife, Michelle Martin-Coyne, was also very involved in the process of developing this space. A gifted artist herself, she is responsible for the majority of The Flaming Lips photography and has published a book of her photographs titled Placebo Head Wound that documents life with the Flaming Lips.
Check out this video and let Wayne Coyne inspire you as he takes you on a little tour of the “compound” and the renovation:
Framing for the pod:
Photography by Joe Mills Photography.
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OH. MY. GOD. Serious drool is coming out of my mouth right now. Absolutely stunning work.
yooooooowwwwaazzaaaaaaaa! thats incredible.
I *love* this. It’s like some weird midcentury mod/futuristic mashup. I especially like the crazy cave-y bathroom.
Dude. What a trip. It’s like 2001 space odyssey meets an igloo. Meets drugs.
Man, this is the damnedest thing I EVER did see! Although I speak as one who has been drug-free my entire life, thank God, so I don’t think you have to be on drugs to appreicate some truly wonderful cutting-edge design elements. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Just like the village from Star Wars
say no to architecture
I have to say no – looks cheap
Wayne is one of the good ones man.
Welcome to my white coffin. YIKES! Baaaaaad
feelings here. Where are the doctors and nurses?
This is art VS architecture. Art for art sake. Design for design sake. My meaningful places of purpose and residence won’t be in a tomb or a CAT Scan machine. ~ A worthwhile
art installation though for ‘exploring’ architecture. B.
Where’s Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen?
pretty futuristic design, this is absolutely can give us some smart inspiration to create more cool innovative design
The tile work is AMAZING. I would love to have a bathroom like this.
I cannot even tell you how inspired I am by FitzSimmons Architects and the Flaming Lips. This unique space truly captures the spirit of The Flaming Lips and then some. this is visually magical.
WOW this is sooo AMAZING! Great design. Nothing to add here.
No need to say much here, I think that is futuristic idea. It seems need a lot of material to make it, and this design would require a larger space. Futuristic ideas but less efficient in my opinion. Anyway thanks for share this article.
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Thanks for sharing this amazing design!
It constantly amazes me what people create for their living spaces. Of course it never hurts to have some money to help the dream become reality.
Amazing bathroom. Must have taken a lot of work to ahieve that effect.