For scenes in the dining room ... predecessors were eclipsed by the SS Normandie. Introduced in 1932, the French liner was a floating shrine to Art Deco and, with more first class cabins than ...

SS Normandie only graced the seas for four years before meeting a fiery end. But it was long enough for her to be considered the ultimate ocean liner, profiled here as part of our Art Deco ...

Original interior works by famous Art Deco artists ... Here was a ship where the first class dining room accommodated 700 guests sitting under 12 pillars of illuminated Lalique glass and 38 ...

The engraved doors that were once aboard the dining room of the SS Normandie can now be found at a Brooklyn church. The doors were salvaged from the bottom of the Hudson River and resized to fit ...

It makes sense that Palm Beacher Richard René Silvin would want to write a book about the Normandie — the French-built, Art Deco-styled ... long first-class dining room and its grand salon.