have served on previous Cunard ships. She is also a companion ship to the 90,000-ton Queen Victoria, which entered service in December 2007. Registered in Southampton and flying the Red


Ensign, Queen Elizabeth is certain to appeal to passengers who yearn for traditional values in an age of new social order, where deference seems dead and buried. Cunard’s vessels revel in an aristocracy of patrician comforts, unlike some vessels whose interiors are as faux and detrop as a stage set with an accompanying dramatis personae. If ever a ship’s design had the right elements of continuity and scale, it is Queen Elizabeth. For the ship’s designers, the remit was simple: absolute elegance in terms of space, shape and lines; perfect harmonisation of colours and materials; stimulation of the use of open spaces and luminosity of the environments; best quality furnishings, fabrics and fittings, combined with the highest standard of workmanship. According to


A HARMONY OF DESIGN


Viscount Linley’s magnificent Grand Lobby work of art (above) shows the port bow of Queen Elizabeth seen dramatically from sea level.


Intricately executed using marquetry inlay, the panel is made up of 9 panels featuring Madrona, Indian ebony, American walnut, grey ripple sycamore, burr ash, bird’s eye maple, satin walnut, ash, burr walnut, and Macassar ebony. This commanding piece of art is also in


harmony with the earth-tone colour palette of creamy beige, chestnut brown, rust, burgundy and gold that is reflected in the light mahogany walls, hand-woven rugs, intricately designed marble floors and two-tone Alabaster chandelier.


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