Concorde

On 21 January 1976, Concorde entered service, cruising at twice the speed of sound, high enough that the sky went dark blue at midday. Leaving London in the morning, a passenger arrived in New York before the hour they had departed. For twenty-seven years, that was simply what Tuesday looked like.

Part of the Authentic Models Elements of the Skies collection, honouring the moment in 1976 when Concorde entered service and put New York within a morning of London and Paris.

Concorde is the range’s contemporary note. The one piece that reads as future rather than past, and the one that draws the eye first.

Each piece features a hand-formed delta wing, a drooped nose, finely pierced cabin windows and a polished aluminium finish that catches the light along the whole fuselage. It is mounted nose-high on a knurled column, as though already climbing.

In a contemporary interior, it needs no period setting to make sense. It belongs on the desk of someone who still measures a good idea by how quickly they can get to it.