European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Pugo 20 the stars and stripes monday june 27, 1977 modern living by Nohma ski Kanew York times of that building a House i dramatically expensive and real a slate prices Are Oom ing. The possibility of building vacation House is vanishing for Many americans. That summer Shack Beach House or Mountain log Cabin Maysoon be replaced by a live in ten some resort areas in Spain Scandinavia and the South of France Cater to summer tenting communities the us May lie forced to follow suit hut Don t resign yourself in Advance to the idea of a cramped Hoy scout style Len with rain dripping through the gaps in the scams. The Ca Bella col leu is Roo ii 1. 200 Square foil tent has come on the Market that s East to up up. Comfortable to inhabit and relatively cheap its designer Fiill most one of this country s preeminent Teri tinkers. Has it As a set i Penna a Cal House an alternative to the conventional vacation a noise muss Calls the Lent the optimum 200 it is bigger and Hifler than a sleeping tent More commodious than vehicle. It s the kind i shelter that a family could Pul on their vacation site and Camp in All summer. The Tell is shaped like .1 three leafed Clover a Central space surrounded by three Bays. The Lent s Central pole is the Only Interior head room Nihro Ghoul averages 9 feet. The Lent can be placed directly on the ground because it has a scan in. The tent s Central pole is the Only Interior Waterproof floor but the designer suggests placing it onto of a permanent deck which would extend beyond the tent is Rulure and form an outdoor Lent which Sells in the us. For $650 plus shipping costs comes in a Box two feet Square and a foot deep and Weiglin about -15 pounds the poles Are shipped in another Box. Weighing another 10 claims that the Tell is easy to erect because of its curvilinear design its built in curve spines that form Interior Arches hold the tent material in place once the enter pole is up. It takes one Man about 20 minutes to put up after the tent is Laid out on the ground and the six stakes secured at the outer edges one crawls underneath the Lent and hoists the self adjusting pole. Wit this in place the sides Are extended by fitting the curving Les together and pushing Kheiri up and out to form Bays Altai ii h tin t it needs occasional a Justim. Especially when Ilie weather changes from tin to wet. I can stay up Foshe summer once it is erected an instant tent to spend the summer in has been in the Back of my mind for some tune now. Moss said "1.see it As the newest direction for the camping summer i collage Reedc Limnal vehicle scene the Tell was inspired by experiments that Moss has been carry ing out in temporary housing we were experimenting with tents for Arab fam Ilies to live in he continued. Tents Are part of the Arab Way of life. My tents Are based in prehistoric Arab Lent True lures wedded to american materials and my own engineering in fact designing a tent to withstand the Arab climate gave Moss the rigorous standards fur his american Vaca Tion tent tents had to be Able to withstand 100-mile per hour winds mixed with Sand and the blazing tempera Tures that average 120 degrees in the desert his Proto Type for use in the Arab emirates has a two or three ply construction an outer Shell and inner layers that serve As in insulating Barrier. In the Lent currently being new tit. Ti-tt-1 a the optimum 200 tent with spacious 200-Square-foot Interior easy to erect Structure and specially treated climate control fabric was designed As Semi permanent vacation House. Tested in the desert near Kuwait where temperatures outside were Well Over 100 degrees the inside Structure stayed a refreshing 85 degrees. It s a very Basic Moss explained. The two or three layer of loosely Woen fabric traps the heal thereby insulating the those climatic condition do not apply in most areas of he u s where people would live in tells so the Standard version of the optimum 200 has a single ply construction self insulating two ply version is also available but it costs approximately Sloo Mure Wool Wincn cup anus ainu comi Tia \ Miu a Visei Hiir in Rainy weather the fabric contracts and becomes water proof in dry weather it loosens for air circulation. Muss said.1uthe eight ounce Cotton he uses for the optimum 00 Lent has the same advantages. It is treated for and is flame retardant As Well to Miet Federal standards
