SS Normandie: the first-class dining room
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| RIBApix ref no |
RIBA105438 |
| Architect/Designer | Lalique, Rene (1860-1945)
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| Country | France |
| Subject Date | 1935 |
| Image Date | 1935 |
| View | Interior |
| Style | Art Deco |
| Medium | Photoprint |
| Library Reference | A575/21 |
| Orientation | Landscape |
| Colour / B&W |
Black and white |
| Credit |
RIBA Collections
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| Notes |
NOTES:
The first-class dining room seated seven hundred. The walls were composed for the most part of decorated and embossed cut glass panels and the coffered ceiling was plaster of Paris coloured gold. It was illuminated by 12 tall pillars of Lalique glass flanked by 38 matching columns along the walls.
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Subject tags
interior decoration, restaurants, ocean liners, statues, Feature Ocean Liners SS Normandie