Vanity Fair UK - 09.2019

ADOC-PHOTOS/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES (NORMANDIE SALON); KEYSTONE-FRANCE/GAMMA-KEYSTONE VIA GETTY IMAGES (NORMANDIE NYC); WORTHPOINT.COM (CUNARD BOOK)

Above: guests in

the first-class

grand salon of the

the Art Deco liner

SS Normandie. Far

left: the French

liner arrives in New

York in 1935.

Left: a 1929 Cunard

book promotes

The New Art of

Going Abroad

O

nce the largest moving

structures crafted by

humans, ocean-going

passenger liners represented the apogee

of sleek, glamorous modernity. Each

vessel was a bubble of opulence—

cocktails, games on deck, lavish balls,

wardrobes to match—played out to a

soundtrack of seagulls and string

quartets. A Cunard book of 1929

trumpeting The New Art of Going

Abroad described life aboard these

Making a Splash It’s anything but

plain sailing when four contemporary

designers reimagine seaborne luxury

Cruise Ship Design

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