After the first world war, many of the European liners had been damaged or lost. So nations launched rebuilding programs as part of the industrial recovery of countries like the UK, France, Germany and Italy. During the inter-war period, the

The start of passenger ship interior design between the end of the 19th century up to World War I During the mid nineteenth century travelling by ocean liner was seen as a highly uncomfortable and dangerous mode of transportation. A

In 1928, Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti launched his magazine Domus, aiming at promoting new insights in architecture and the applied arts. In this magazine, he wanted to showcase modern style architecture and interior design applied by Italian artists.

The architect who introduced Art Deco in passenger ship interiors on the Australian route Born in Christchurch , New Zealand, Brian O’Rorke moved with his family to the UK in 1911. He studied engineering and architecture at Cambridge University, At

Gustavo Pulitzer Finali was born in Trieste in 1887 into a wealthy merchant family of Jewish origin; after his studies in Trieste in 1908, he joined the engineering faculty of the Polytechnic technical university of Munich. In his birthplace Trieste,

Designers of the last of the “old-fashioned” over the top baroque passenger ship interiors The most famous of the Coppedè brothers, Luigi “Gino” Coppedè (1866 – 1927) was an Italian architect, sculpter and decorator, born in Florence. He was an exponent