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CRUISE SHIPPING INTERIOR DESIGN “Entertainment on board needs to be spectacular, with the wrap-round LED screens and state-of-the-art lighting technology for ‘World Stage’ theaters on HAL’s Koningsdam and NieuwStatendam comparable to the latest Las

Vegas hotel attractions.”

Trond Sigurdsen

Chairman of YSA Design

Photo: YSA Design blend together; Celebrity Edge (delivered late 2018) and

Celebrity Apex (entering service in April 2020) offer an ‘in? nite veranda’, which as implied, “…with the touch of a button, your entire living space becomes the veranda.”

Carlos Reyes, the Weston, Fla.- based Managing Partner at Tomas Tillberg Designs said “The conceptual approach of a vessel developed for a mass market and a smaller ves- sel developed for either high-end or expedition are com- pletely different. The guest of each product is looking for a completely different experience and the priorities of each one are distinctive. For instance, the high-end products have a high ratio passenger/crew, even 1-to-1, which of course demands a larger areas allocated for crew accom- modations relative to mass market vessels in proportion.”

Noting that the smaller vessels (which ? t into the river and expedition segments) may emphasize landside geog- raphies, he said “The high-end guest of a smaller vessel, does not expect endless alter-natives to be entertained on board all-day long, he expects a relaxed and ful? lled time on board in different ways. The guest of an expedition ves- sel is also completely different, a guest who expects the opportunity to explore remote and unique places … not paying top priority to the speci? cs of the accommodations because he takes for granted that those will be extremely well thought out and appropriate.”

Curated art collections, now de rigueur across multiple demographics (not merely at the ultra high end), can be found on both new and refurbished vessels. Celebrity

Edge, repositioning to the Mediterranean in April 2020, features a vast assemblage of photographs, sculpture and www.marinelink.com 51

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