The Concorde Hits Forbes

As you might have seen, we recently unveiled the largest (and most challenging) project in our portfolio to date, a 48-foot-long sculpture of the Concorde supersonic airliner that is suspended from the ceiling of the Brooklands Lounge at London's Peninsula Hotel.

A project this large is bound to make waves, and we're grateful to Forbes Senior Contributor, Mark Ewing, for covering the art installment.

Catch the article here.

Highlights:

“Well, the maquette punctured a hole in the frunk of Alex’s 911 on the drive to Monterey and another hole in my arm,” says Ferrier. “It turns out that if you shrink a Concorde, the nose becomes a deadly weapon.”

“There were placeholder shapes in the architect's drawings, but we were given freedom to reinterpret the Concorde as we saw fit, ‘motion’ being the visual goal,” says [Alex] Rasmussen. “It is definitely a ‘speedform’ now, rather than an accurate model or scale replica, fettled over and over for the space..."