| Art and function seemed to blend in Nieuw Amsterdam. The product
of Holland’s leading designers, decorators and naval architects, the interiors
aboard seemed frankly keyed to their maritime setting and were unusually
beautiful.
The ship’s public rooms were a repository for many fine expamples of
modern Dutch art and handicrafts. Examples included the massive cast aluminum
bas-relief suspended from the ceiling of the Grand Hall to the diminutive
bronze mermaids that formed the doorhandles to the Smoking room bar. It
seemed nothing was overlooked to furnish Nieuw Amsterdam with the
very finest The Netherlands could produce. |
