Design Milk
“This was a hugely complicated feat of design, engineering, problem solving and manufacturing that demanded nothing short of our best,”
Forbes
“Ferrier turned to his long-time collaborator, Alex Rasmussen of Neal Feay in Santa Barbara, to develop the 48-foot-long and 2700-lb. alloy “speedform” sculpture of the Concorde. When the Peninsula Belgravia opened this fall, the Concorde sculpture became an overnight sensation, a design icon.”
Boat International
“There are only so many materials that work on a boat, and aluminium’s already been vetted,” Rasmussen explains. “Even Benetti is using aluminium cleats on its production boats, so it’s a proven quantity.
“Alex gets bored with the status quo,” says Joan Behnke, whose interior design firm regularly collaborates with Rasmussen. “He thrives on the energy of creative people. And he has a team of problem-solvers. Alex is surrounded with talented people who augment the process.”
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Boat International
Inside the Studio: Aluminium Artisan Alex Rasmussen Takes us Inside Neal Feay's Santa Barbara Studio
Yachts International
“Rasmussen jokes that his only competitors are artists and craftsmen who work in stone, marble, wood and bronze. He honors Old World materials but sees new and exciting things that can be done with aluminum.”
The topics for discussion? Aluminium, panel-beating and rear haunches. Super-forming and silhouettes. Statement, sculpture and surfaces. But mainly aluminium.
Broadway Bar for Rafael de Cárdenas
“The bar is on the main level is designed by Neal Feay. It features a light base with rounded corners and brown antique honed granite on top. Completing the area are high bar stools by Mobel Copenhagen with upholstered backs.”
Cool Hunting
“We visited Rasmussen at his 50,000-square-foot facility, an unassuming structure that’s a popular intersection for creatives from a myriad industries.”
Dezeen
“Among these is a metallic black board, which Newson created for American professional big-wave surfer Garrett McNamara.”
Wallpaper Magazine
Pascale Mussard “A family affair, legacy and innovation, a love for material, and the desire to make simple, beautiful objects with the juxtaposition of each other’s know how” Their signature materials - leather and aluminium - come together strikingly in the collection of tables.
Wallpaper
In terms of scale, Newson’s is the most ambitious. ‘It was crucial that the pieces remain about Alaïa rather than those intervening to enhance his work,’ says Newson. ‘That’s what we do as designers.
Fortune
“Meet the Man Who Turned Aluminum Into a Material for High-End Art”
Robb Report
Cloth is Neal Feay’s first limited-edition furniture release. The undulating form started out like most convention-defying ideas: as a custom piece.
Wallpaper
Neal Feay Company flew more than 2,000 aluminium modules from California to Milan, where each geometric element had to be pieced together on site. ‘It was building architecture for a five-day event in a hallway where people are living,’
Dezeen
blade-like legs and top were machined from solid pieces of aluminium by Californian company Neal Feay Studio. The unique piece is inscribed: "Designed by Jony Ive & Marc Newson for (RED) 2013 edition 01/01".
The Wave is a new creative chapter for Neal Feay Company. the work blurs the boundaries of art, design and engineering, meeting somewhere in-between: ’You could call it an object, you could call it architecture, or you could call it a sculpture.’
Design Milk
“Their meeting lead to a collection of aluminum Salvers, or trays, three by Weeks and three by Rasmussen, each available in two different color finishes.”
JustLuxe
With aluminum, he is creating new dimensions of luminosity and is the global leader in its creative use. Right now, the Studio is working with Louis Vuitton and Design Miami, as well as Holly Hunt and Opening Ceremony. His aluminum work has been often been said to obscure the boundaries between artisanry and art.
Design Milk
“…cutting edge aluminum fabrication techniques along with generative CAD modeling tools to push the “structural limits and precision machinability”
ArchDaily
“We’re hoping to create something that people will want to participate in,” says Ricciardi, and the result is a structure designed to be occupied and explored, as much as admired.