An airline cabin is the most travelled room in the world. We spend most of our year inside one, and we have never tired of it.
It welcomes millions of people. It carries an identity you can recognise from the doorway in Singapore at midday and in Frankfurt at midnight, and it holds that identity together across an entire fleet and across fifteen years of service. Designing something that generous is among the most considered work in aviation, and visualising it is a privilege we take seriously.
We also work on cabins made for one person.
One owner.
A private cabin is made for one owner and one airframe.
The joinery is cut for that aircraft. The hide is chosen from particular skins. The veneer is book matched by hand into an arrangement unique to it. Everything in the cabin has been decided by a person who will live with the decision for a decade, and it carries that fact in every surface.
The materials.
The palette runs to figured walnut, stone, plated brass, hand stitched leather and silk, chosen the way they would be chosen for a house, for one person, with time taken over them.
At these distances everything is in the frame at once, and the image becomes an account of how the materials meet. Grain direction matters. So does the sheen of a lacquer, the way a bezel takes the cabin light, and the exact warmth of a thread. Getting this right is the whole pleasure of the work.
The light inside.
The glazing is intimate, and the cabin is lit largely from within.
It was designed for the evening. Warm, low and enclosed, at its finest above a cloud layer with the shades half drawn. That is the register the interior was made for, and it is the one we build towards. An aircraft of this kind is at its best when it feels like a room.
Close enough to touch.
Everything sits within reach of the camera.
The compositions gather around detail, and a single surface can hold an entire image. A seam, the edge of a table, the corner where two materials meet. These are subjects in their own right, and they are usually the frames that stay with people.
Who this work is for.
Completion centres and VIP interior designers, presenting a proposed interior to an owner ahead of the build.
Aircraft manufacturers, introducing a type ahead of the first completed cabin.
Fractional and programme operators, presenting a fleet that feels of a piece across every aircraft in it.
In each case the aircraft is seen before it is built. It deserves to be seen at its best, and that is the conviction we bring to every cabin we are given, whichever kind it is.
