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gildedjuggernaut:

A Diagram of Appartements de Grand Luxe, Normandie


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“The creme de la creme suits were positioned about two-thirds of the way to the ship’s stern, on the uppermost deck, the Sun Deck. These were the Trouville and the Deauville Suites.  Each had four bedrooms, a living room, a dining room, a pantry, a servant’s bedroom and five baths or half baths….The Trouville…was distinguished by a drawing room carpeted with a dark, velvety broadloom, most of which was covered by white area rugs interwoven with graceful patterns of tiny flowers. At the room’s center stood a table with a thick glass top on a three-legged white wooden pedestal….The other grand lux suite, the Deauville, was just as big and as beautiful as the Trouville, although its layout and decor were entirely different. There were two other suits on the Main Deck, three levels down, that almost rivaled them: the Caen and the Rouen….The classic lines of the [Caen Suite’s] bedroom were set off by a blue lacquer mural sprinkled with silver and decorated with panels of etched glass, ‘a fitting setting,’ said one promotional booklet, ‘for its furniture, which is covered in Chinese sharkskin.’….One step down from these sybaritic accommodations were the ten apartments de luxe….Each suite de luxe was decorated by a different designer, mostly in variations of Art Deco.” – Normandie: Her Life and Times, Harvey Ardman

In Honor of Normandie’s maiden voyage, Wednesday, May 29, 1935

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sydneyflapper:

This lovely photograph of Hera Roberts, taken by Sam Hood, was recently the subject of a very interesting Australian National Maritime Museum blog entry.

Hera is a fascinating figure – a designer, illustrator and painter who designed over fifty covers for The Home, a popular Australian magazine on art, fashion and interiors. She was also a leader in interior design. Sam Hood is of course well known for documenting Sydney and Australian life in the 1920s and 30s.

One of the things that charmed me about the photo is that it was taken at a Dutch Navy reception that took place on board HNLMS Java on 10 October 1930 – 10 October is my birthday.

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indypendenthistory:

Irving Berlin & wife Ellen Mackay, 1920s

In 1912, Berlin married Dorothy Goetz, the sister of the songwriter E. Ray Goetz. She died six months later of typhoid fever, which she contracted during their honeymoon in Havana. The song he wrote to express his grief, “When I Lost You,” was his first ballad.

In the 1920s, he fell in love with a young heiress, Ellin Mackay, the daughter of Clarence Mackay, the socially prominent head of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company. Because Berlin was Jewish and she was Catholic, their life was followed in every possible detail by the press, which found the romance of an immigrant from the Lower East Side and a young heiress a good story.

Berlin wooed her over the airwaves with his songs, “Remember” and “Always.” His biographer, Philip Furia, writes that “even before Ellin returned from Europe, newspapers rumored they were engaged, and Broadway shows featured skits of the lovelorn songwriter….” During the week after her return, both she and Berlin were “besieged by reporters, sometimes fifty at a time.” Variety reported that her father had vowed their marriage “would only happen ‘over my dead body.’”[34] As a result they decided to elope and were married in a simple civil ceremony at the Municipal Building away from media attention. [wikipedia text]