When Santiago Suarez from Iberia Airline’s press team recently visited our workshop, he was fascinated at the array of miniature worlds found inside our Shoreditch studio.
Santiago interviewed our founder Robert Danton-Rees and was so inspired by Robert’s story and passion for architectural model making, that he decided to feature Capital in the May edition of Excelente, Iberia’s in-flight Business Class magazine.
Each month the magazine has a ‘Workspace’ feature depicting the work of a designer, artist, or maker through their tools and raw materials. The miniature worlds that Capital creates using a wide selection of materials and a mixture of modern and traditional techniques, made ideal content for this double spread article.
Iberia, based in Madrid, was founded in 1927 and has now grown to have 87 aircraft fleets covering 118 destinations worldwide. We are delighted to think our story and our miniature worlds are giving audiences an interesting read at 38,000ft.
This refurbishment certainly wasn’t a one-off situation and we regularly get enquiries such as this once or twice a month. Sometimes it’s for models that we have previously made and other times it’s for models that have been produced by other companies. We often receive models that have been shipped from China and damaged in transit or simply the original model maker cannot be found.
And, like a shelter home we take them all under our wing to be nurtured back to health in the safe surroundings of our workshop.
Over the years we’ve also updated several ship models. For example, we recently had a task to re-design the QE2 ship model to reflect alterations that were made to the actual ship. And on this occasion we also took the opportunity to add internal lighting for more impact.
Another visitor to our workshop recently was a ship model from the NYK Group, Japan’s largest shipping companies. It had been badly damaged when someone or something had fallen on to it, breaking a lot of the delicate masts and upper deck.
Original Source: architectural model makers London
