One Man’s Quest to assemble Every Single Item From the Concorde [Design]

He says he’s not obsessive-we’ll leave that a good way to decide. But Nathan Shedoff certainly has an obsessive eye for good design , prompting him to acquire an multi-year collection of belongings you would have found aboard the jet.

The enormous collection, picked from eBay offerings over between 2004 and 2007, has landed Sherdoff enough cutlery and plates, to illustrate, to host a supersonic-themed dinner for sixteen.

But dinner is only the start of the fabric trove. Sherdoff has what feels like nearly everything Concorde: bottle openers, coffee makers, letter openers, dishes, towels, binoculars, flasks-it goes on, and on. In case you could find it on the plane or buy it inside the gift shop, the percentages seem likely that Sherdoff has one. Or five.

But Sherdoff isn’t a hoarder. He justifies his aesthetic fixation thusly:

The Concorde was a kind of few iconic symbols of Wonder and Accomplishment. Sure, the folk who could afford the flight had to be willing to fork over some serious money for the trip, but neither the plane nor the flight was in regards to the expense. It was concerning the future.

I certainly don’t have the budget for any such collection (nor the room). And actually, my only memory of the Concorde’s existence is a faint one, as it flew above me as an 8 year old on a trip to London. But good design defies nostalgia, and we dig that Nathan is keeping it alive. Just don’t tell us how much it all cost you. [ Core77 via Nathan Sherdoff ]

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