A stylish cruise ship bringing Cunard into the modern age Queen Anne is Cunard’s newest ship, she joined the fleet in May 2024. Queen Anne was built in Italy, at Fincantieri’s shipyard in Marghera, Venice, launched in May 2023 and named a year later in June 2024 in Liverpool. (postponed from January due to supply […]
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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, through the German speaking community there, he came in touch with the ideas of Bauhaus
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Italian furniture and passenger ship interior designer Giovanni “Nino” Zoncada (1898-1988) began his career as an Italian furniture designer after graduating from the the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Zoncada then started working at the interior and furnishing department of the shipyard Cantiere Navale Triestino in Monfalcone in 1923. He would be promoted to become
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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. When one of the contributors to Domus, Gustavo Pulitzer Finali (1887-1967) won the competition for
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She started life in 1903 as Ralph Brocklebank, having been built for the Shropshire Railways & Canal Company. She was used to tow barges and ferry passngers across the river Mersey. In 1922 she was sold to the Manchester Ship Canal Company and was operated as a steam tug in the port of Manchester. Occaisionally,
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Architect Njål Eide introduced soaring atria, elegant curves and impressive multi-level dining rooms to cruise ships Njål Eide, one of the world’s foremost cruise ship designers, introduced several revolutionary design concepts workng for multiple cruise lines, like the now ever present atrium. He worked as a chief designer for Royal Caribbean International and also designed
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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 of the Art Nouveau movement and worked in his father’s woodcarving studio between 1885 and
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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 the start of his career he mainly worked on private houses and also did projects
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