Everything in life is temporary. In some cases, the temporariness of an object can add to its beauty. Perhaps this is why we romanticise the early 20th century, in which airships ruled our skies; they were poetic and ephemeral.
Airship travel was imbued with a sense of luxury for the highclass passengers on board. However, the qualities we usually associate with luxury - sturdy, heavy, ornate furniture - would encumber the aircraft rendering them unable to fly. Airships were fitted with paper walls and aluminium pianos, providing a lightweight façade of luxury.
This work explores the glamour, decadence and nostalgia of Lighter-than-Air craft, at a time when the environmental cost of aviation could fuel the return of the airship.
