Welcome, Princess Dala!
 

Hey folks, please welcome my friend, Princess Dala!

(Some of you already know Kali from MP/ADD)

*hugs* hi cindy and crew!

Welcome! :cheers:

Welcome to yet another Mansion Fan !!! *YAY*

Welcome!

Hola!

Welcome to the Lot! Glad to have you join us!

Welcome!! :cheers:

Welcome.

Sooo what are you doing right now?

Bienvenidos!

Howdy doody

Welcome!

(Has anyone told her about the "Soooo...." thread?)

Hey there, hi there, ho there
You're as welcome as can be


No, as we would like someone new to actual start posting...

:cheers:
Welcome to LoT! Just what we need, another princess! :cool:

Welcome!

Welcome!!!

Welcome!
:)

Thanks, guys. :) I see some familiar faces.

Welcome! :cheers:

Hopefully you will stick around anyways.

I was expressing pleasant surprise, honest! :p :D

May I assume from your AV that you're a liner buff? If so, girl, we need to talk!

Yes I am, and we soooo do! :D

*loves all over the diasporic remnants of the ss france*

Welcome, PD!:cheers:

My favorite is Normandie. While France of 1962 had a remarkable exterior form, her interiors never appealed to me.

ahoy! welcome aboard
:argghh:

thanks wendybeth!

normandie is actually my second favorite, behind the '26 ile de france. :D normandie's first class dining salon was stunning - wish i could have seen it in person. i have a book with extensive post-fire photos, and that space in particular is heartwrenching to look at. oh, and i like the casdcading decks aft to the fantail, too. ;D

france/norway is my third favorite, because those diversion funnels were so freaking awesome AND because I loved the quirky, pre-NCL midcentury interiors. she's on my mind a lot lately for obvious and depressing reasons. :(

i like the cunarders, too. and the big u!

and thank you too, cap'n sir!

Welcome to LoT! :D

sir? oooh.....yeah. Im gonna like this one


;)

WHOOSH <--- the sound of this topic going right over my head (although I was eventually able to figure out the subject).

Don't get too used to it: she'll wisen up!

thanks lv!

*adjusts neon boat geek goggles*

*smiles and nods to everything else*

Welcome!

then I shall enjoy it while it lasts!


now, where was that pr0n link.......... :blush:

The Ile is one of my favorites too... But with the pre-war interiors. The Big U's interiors were... how shall we say it... "tacky". While I'm glad she's still around, she was never one of my favorites.

As for Cunarders... I prefer the first Queen Elizabeth over the Queen Mary. The first Mauretania is another of my vavorites, and the Berengaria as well. The Coronia II was a beautiful ship. Too bad they painted her green.

Very "aluminum"! :P I dunno, I kinda liked them. Better than naked from bulkhead to bulkhead, I guess. ;) Not as pretty as sister America's insides, though, I grant you that. I thought the map-themed and cartoonish wall art were pretty nifty. I haven't seen many pre-Australis interior photos of that ship, but you could still see how elegant the old late-deco bones were.

I gravitate toward the prewar deco type interiors too, for the most part. I do prefer most of the 1947 refits they did on the Queen Mary, though. The buff and red korkoid wins. I wish the ballroom still existed, though. Those etched glass screenwalls remind me a lot of the "white" scene room in the old journey into imagination for some reason; that segmented wall on your right as you entered.

Queen Mary is probably my favorite Cunarder; The Macdonald Gill cabin class dining room map and the Gilbert Bayes Unicorns are two of my very favorite pieces of art. I also dig the fact that the first class dining salon looks like a big archaic-style doric temple inside.

I like the Mauritania, too (mostly the dazzle paint, seriously - that tickles my cute bone)...and Aquitania as well.

Queen Elizabeth was indeed gorgeous, but she makes me sad. I like the fact that the new Elizabeth won't have a number affixed, but holy green cows, will that generate some conversational confusion. :D

Okay, off topic....
 

but since ya'll are talking about pretty ocean liners.....

I just spent some time revisiting Brideshead Revisited (Granada tv version). The ocean liner during the later episodes was stunning, the main salon had indonesian/thai figures on the doors. Very orientale decor. Very spiffy. Anybody know what ship it was they filmed on?

okay, back to the welcome thread, welcome again! :cool:

thanks again, snowflake! and you too, CP!

sorry if the shipliness is out of control! mention transatlantic anything and i start spewing boat. not even expert facts, just...general nautical nonsensicality.

i haven't seen that adaptation, so i have no cloo. now i'm curious!

Oooo the America!! How could I forget that one. Yes, her interiours were very nice. the First Class Smoking room, with all the black glass, was very swanky. Sad, tragic end...

The Mary always looked rather busy and cluttered to me. The Elizabeth had much cleaner lines. IMO The dining rooms, Main Lounges and Main Hall on the Elizabeth were better, but the Grill, Observation Bar and Pools were better on the Mary.

The only ship I know of that they filmed on was the QE2 (very out of period, BTW).

I agree with you on the "openness"/size factor on Elizabeth vs. Mary. It seems that quite a few people who sailed on both liked Elizabeth better, maybe for that very reason?

Dude! Speaking of America, I checked around a few months ago to find recent American Star wreck photos, and learned that the fore portion completely collapsed and is now under water. It had been a long time since I'd bothered to look (depressing!), but I was stunned nonetheless. I guess it's a good thing. I decided to stay away from the Blue Lady melee so I wouldn't get sucked into that slow-grind, either, although I understand there were mercifully fewer photos documenting the crap going down at Alang because people were all upons about Greenpeace ruining business with sekrit fotoze.

I LOVE THE VERANDAH GRILLE! I would make it my officelairbatcaveclubhouse if i could. There is something creepy and claustrophobic about the first class pool, though. Not that it would have been any less claustrophobic (very likely moreso), but the tourist class pool had the cute fishy glass next to it, and cute fishy glass is attractive to me.

The Elizabeth's First Class pool was only one deck high. The Mary's is better.

I can't remember what Elizabeth's cabin class pool looks like!

For some reason, however, the images I've seen of Mary's tourist class pool, as low-ceilinged and stuck-in-the-afterbowels-of-the-ship as it was, seems more appealing than the dual-deck first class pool. It may just been the ghost tour lighting and crap that turns me off, I don't know.

I couldn't find a picture online, but I'll check through my books later.

Here are some comparisons of other rooms on the 2 ships:

First Class Main lounge:

Queen Mary:

Queen Elizabeth:


First Class Smoking Room:

Mary:

Elizabeth:


First Class Dining Room:

Mary:

Elizabeth:

Main Hall:

Mary:

Elizabeth:


Observation Bar:

Mary:

Elizabeth:


Verandah Grill:

Mary:

Elizabeth:

"There's got to be a morning after....."

Welcome!! :cheers:

I want that QM color interior-photo book! That and the gold-cover interior paintings book, too, which is always too expensive for me to buy when I find it.

I love that cabin class foyer picture for Elizabeth; I just found a similar shot in my Dover interiors book. The height is amazing, which makes the sconce lighting very dramatic, like in a big soundstage set - Mary's foyer (and the Prom deck shops in the picture you included for comparison to Elizabeth's) can't match that, nor the sheer breadth of the floorspace. It's amazing to see how similar many of the other analogous spaces really are, though, size aside.

I can't find any photos of the Queen Elizabeth's pool, either; ton of both Mary pools, though. I thought the James Steele book might have comparison photos, but no; it was another book. It does have photos documenting a flambe-in-progress in the QM cabin class dining salon, though. Sunday brunch needs schtick like that. xD

PS - The Observation Bar looks hella tighter in the postwar reds.

I shoulda seen that one coming. :p Somebody get the Christmas tree ready...

thanks for the welcome, belleh. :D

Welcome!

thanks, katie! your sig rules, btw.

And, of course, both pale in comparison to Normandie...

Main Lounge:


Cafe Grill:


Smoking Room:


Entrance Hall:


Dining Room:

*sobs giant lalique tears*

Welcome!

Welcome. :coffee:

Thank you!

Best. Welcome. Derail. Ever.

Oh, the Normandie is gorgeous.

Thanks for the pics, JW. But you and Princess Dala (whom I offer kind welcomes to) should get a room ....er, a cabin.

:p

"The time has come," the JWBear said,
"To talk of boatish things:
Of pools--and ships--and korkoid floors--
Of Normandie and Queens--
And why the Big U isn't hot--
And huge lalique fittings..."

You should see some of those rooms in color... Stunning!

:snap: :snap: :snap:

Hehe.

Thank you for the sweet welcome, iS. :)

Welcome, it looks like you fit right in!

Thanks! I hope so. ;)

Hellowelcome Princess Dala!