The house, designed by Roger Dean, the multitasking painter, graphic designer and architect best known for his exotically surreal album covers for the music groups Yes and Asia in the 1970’s and 1980’s, is currently a one-of-a-kind nonworking prototype…Mr. Dean was nonplused to discover, in the mid-1980’s, that the Teletubbies lived in a house very similar to the ones he had been designing. “The real bad news wasn’t that they copied me,” he said, “but that because they were so successful people think I copied them.”

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