Selfridges shop windows

side windows. september 2008. Olympus

The windows of London department store SELFRIDGES offer Oxford Street shoppers changing views. DESIGNERSBLOCK have curated seven windows which were timed to coincide with The London Design Festival, London Fashion Week and Frieze Art Fair.

In September 2008, they did a collaboration with POSTLERFERGUSON- a London based research and design consultancy- which featured various pieces including this 1:1 scale model of a Concorde Engine.

Olympus is a celebration of the tremendous technological feat of Concorde and also a eulogy for the elegance and aspirations that died with it.

Using a maintenance manual purchased on Ebay for £6 and a lot of styrofoam, paper and glue, POSTLERFERGUSON engage in a bit of recent-past archaeology to construct a full-scale model of the Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 jet engine from the Concorde.