Vanity Fair UK – September 2019

(Kiana) #1

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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

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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

VANITY FAIR EN ROUTE SEPTEMBER 2019


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