Pierre Cardin's "Bubble Palace" Is Up For Sale Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Most luxurious estates fit a certain profile: a huge mansion, some smaller buildings and a pool or other recreational space. The emphasis is on “most” there — because the world also contains a few high-end residencies that look like nothing so much as a science fiction fever dream, the sort of place where an ambitious filmmaker might set their epic feature set in a psychedelic future. In the south of France, you’ll find one such place, known as the Palais Bulles — or “Bubble Palace.” In the 1970s, architect Antti Lovag designed the space in keeping with his ongoing fascination with “bubble housing.” It’s worth mentioning here that Lovag preferred to refer to himself as a “habitologist,” and created a host of distinctive structures that resemble a cross between