Greatest Liner ever
Something from my collection. She was a a most luxurys , modern and fas-*test*-('") liner. Voila!

Beautiful Jani, there is just nothing that matchs the beauty of a true liner. :wink:

Thanks Jani, a beautiful ship.

Thanks, i think that Normandie was best ever. I been read about that liner. She was build by using best for everything what money buy.

Yes Jani, I am sure the Queen Mary would not be half as famous as she is had Normandie, not met such a tragic and unnecessary end.

Queen Mary cost about half of that what a Normandie cost. But those two liners are very different types. Queen Mary is build of the best old fashion liner. Normandie was a modern liner. First ever use electric motors to propulsion and first hull with bulb bow. And everything from interior witch looks gold it realy was a gold.

Fantastic photos Jani - what a collection you must have! :D Thanks for posting them.

A RACE AMONG NATIONS: THE MAKING OF THE NORMANDIE PANELS
Renowned Pennsylvania collector Frederick Koch visited Carnegie Museum of Art in the fall of 1993, on a private tour that included the newly-minted Heinz Architectural Center. As today's legend has it, Koch looked appraisingly around the museum that day, reacquainting himself with its vast halls and galleries, and mentioned some plaster panels the museum "might be able to use." With this singularly modest introduction, Koch made an enormously generous gift of The Chariot of Aurora. With the arrival of Aurora, known also as The Earth, Four Winds & the Sea, the museum welcomed an elusive celebrity into its midst. The 32 gilded panels, measuring a monumental 18-by-26 feet, were commissioned by France as ornament for the Normandie, the most opulent ocean liner ever to part the seas. Jean Dunand, a celebrated Art Deco scion, fashioned its lacquered relief surface. Muralist Jean Dupas created the design. Adding mystery to magnificence is Aurora's little-known history. Since their 1935 unveiling on the Normandie's maiden crossing, the panels have slipped in and out of public view like a spy on the lam-spawning rumors of loss and destruction. http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/1996/sepoct/feat4.htm PICTURES ON THIS ARTICLE From Cruise critic came the following information: Aboard Summit, The Normandie features memorabilia including original gold-lacquered paneling depicting hunt scenes that originally adorned the smoking room on the SS Normandie. Cuisine style is continental, and dishes are cooked, flambéed, carved and/or plated tableside. Other highlights: the Olympic and Normandie have a dine-in wine cellar, as well as an open galley.