The Space Age Resort That Time Forgot La Grande Motte's retro futurist architecture, born in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a government initiative to stem French tourism's flow south to Spain, was meant to be more than just a beach town.
Its designers aimed to create a futuristic oasis that would transport visitors from everyday life into a world of "intergalactic curves" and Mayan inspired apartment blocks.
The parallels between this 1960s utopian vision and our era's fascination with retro futurism are striking.