Normandie
Subtitle: France's Legendary Art Deco Ocean Liner
Publisher: W. W. Norton; W.W. Norton & Company
Published: December 10, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780393061208
Subjects: Maritime history; Ships & shipping: general interest; Transportation; France; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; Ships & Shipbuilding - Pictorial; Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / General; Ships & Shipbuilding - General
Description: Normandie was unquestionably the most beautiful ocean liner ever built. The world's largest at the time, she also became the world's fastest. Her art deco interiors were unrivalled: capacious, elegant and chic, decorated by teams of France's most talented artists. Yet Normandie was plagued with frustrations-never attracting more passengers than the competition and tragically ending her days in flames at New York's Pier 88. Celebrated maritime historian John Maxtone-Graham confesses to a hypnotic fascination with Normandie. In this comprehensive volume, he documents every aspect of the vessel's decorative antecedents, design, construction and service. Always articulate, entertaining and devastatingly well informed, Maxtone-Graham has created the definitive Normandie panegyric, a comprehensive and at times, heartbreaking account of this fabled liner.