Completing a two-week extreme makeover, ultra-luxe Crystal Cruises reveals redesigned major public spaces aboard Crystal Symphony. This latest triumph marks the culmination of a US$65 million, five-year plan to redesign every room aboard the award-winning ship.
Three interior design companies from the UK and U.S. created the visions for the new spaces: Adfecto and SMC Design from London and KNA Design from Los Angeles, with inspiration culled from classic tony icons like New York’s 21 Club, Hollywood’s Coconut Grove, and Palm Beach country club life. With lighting being a key creative consideration, Crystal and designers worked with DPA Lighting Consultants to add to the design’s drama, ambiance, and environmental-friendliness.
KNA’s redesign of signature lounges Avenue Saloon and Palm Court sets the perfect, lively backdrop for taking advantage of Crystal’s newly all-inclusive fine wines and custom-crafted cocktails.
The panoramic-view in Palm Court becomes a more intimate space with modern lounge seating in buttery soft leathers, which surround a larger, spiral-design dance floor, and slick, stainless and hand-tiled mosaic bar. The aqua, chartreuse, ash, and cream jewel color tones create a “light” California ambiance that helps bring the outside in during daytime tea and view-gazing. New lighting transforms the space into a dreamy destination for evening dancing and drinks.
Avenue Saloon and piano bar retains its 19th-century gentlemen’s club feel, but incorporates updated colors, furnishings, materials, and music and seating configuration. Heavily shuttered windows frame regal burgundies, golds, caramels, moss greens, and ivories that embrace guests in luxe warmth. The inviting piano relocation allows for increased seating and conversation area choices, including new brass-tack couches, embossed-leaf barstools, or tufted booths.
Old Hollywood panache also extends into Crystal’s entertainment showrooms, the Galaxy Lounge and Hollywood Theatre, with an air of British tradition, thanks to the spaces’ two UK designers.
The ship’s live performance showroom Galaxy Lounge now has a modern and contemporary look with diamond-patterned glass doors, lustrous gold fabric panels, black Nero Marquina marble flooring, and large LCD digital signage screens at the entrance. New, modern mohair seating, cocktail tables, and under-banquette lighting add comfort and drama. A new stage extension that expands performance space by 30%, plus cutting-edge tech enhancements bring guests on the high seas even closer to Broadway.
Classic, Art Deco movie palaces and the stars of the silver screen inspired Adfecto’s re-do of the Hollywood Theatre, Crystal’s elegant space for feature films and presentations. New smoked woodgrain walls and velvet damson-colored curtains create a sweeping entry, while decorative and underseat lighting provides a warm ambience and soft glow. Various state-of-the-art visual and audio systems further transform the space into a luxury screening room.
Crystal’s dedicated Junior Cruisers’ areas, Waves (teens) and Fantasia (children), have been re-designed by Adfecto for savvy stylistas-in-training. The areas’ divided layout has been reconfigured to create more privacy for teens and more of a welcoming, home den feel for younger children and allows flexibility for the space to be opened up into one. Different sections for group activities/crafts, storytime, relaxation, videogames (Wii, PlayStation, Xbox, Kinect), and screenings encourage personal expression.
Other invigorating new touches include “bells and whistles” added to all staterooms, paddle tennis court resurfacing, sprucing of tender shuttles, more energy-efficient hull paint, galley updates, and general maintenance and detailing of the entire ship, from propellers and boilers to the bridge and lifeboats.
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