For our new World View series, we asked Wallpaper’s contributing editors, based in cities around the world, to reflect on design in current times. Here, our digital director Tilly Macalister-Smith touches base with Californian creatives Alex Rasmussen,...
For our new World View series, we asked Wallpaper’s contributing editors, based in cities around the world, to reflect on design in current times. Here, our digital director Tilly Macalister-Smith touches base with Californian creatives Alex Rasmussen, The Haas Brothers, Kelly Wearstler and Johanna Grawunder, to learn about the making of ventilator panels, the new world of online exhibitions, and the virtues of technology-assisted communication.
It’s been a busy week for Alex Rasmussen, president of anodised aluminium specialists Neal Feay. His Santa Barbara-based business has pivoted from producing one-off art pieces and collectible furniture to life-saving equipment: they are now currently working around the clock producing aluminium front panels for Vyaire ventilators. ‘Two weeks ago Monday we got a call. My dad answered and told me, “The Vyaire people need every piece they have on order as fast as they can get it.
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