Cruise & Ferry Interiors 2021

5 8 By Giuseppe Carino, Costa Cruises F or centuries, Italy has been renowned for its impressive architecture, fine craftsmanship, pioneering fashion and transportation industries, its strong culinary traditions and much more. As a company with proud Italian heritage, Costa Cruises aims to celebrate this by creating ships and onboard experiences that have all the hallmarks of a luxury Italian vacation, but are accessible to guests with every kind of budget. To achieve this goal, we invest a lot of time, money and effort into designing impressive onboard spaces, outfitting our vessels with high-quality furniture and furnishings, creating authentic Italian and Mediterranean cuisine, and producing great entertainment. Costa Smeralda, our newest flagship, provides the perfect example. Designed to serve as an ambassador to Italy, the vessel boasts an overarching design concept created by Costa’s creative director and hospitality designer Adam Tihany. His aim was to deliver an exclusive experience of journeying through Italy via the perspectives of four design architecture firms, Jeffrey Beers International, Dordoni Architetti, Partner Ship Design and Rockwell Group. Interiors have been enhanced by high-end materials, furniture, soft furnishings, lighting and other accessories made by some of Italy’s most prestigious designers and product manufacturers. They include Alessi, Molteni&C, Roda, Flos, Rubelli, Dedar Milano, Dorelan, Kartell, Poltrona Frau and others. These products can be found throughout the ship, so guests are surrounded by luxury wherever they go. Tihany also created CoDe, the first- ever design museum at sea. Exhibits feature hundreds of pieces of furniture, fashion items, art, miniature motorbikes and trains, and many other iconic artifacts that showcase Italy’s influence Costa Cruises aims to deliver a budget-friendly premium cruises experience by outfitting its ships with luxury furnishings and offering high-end entertainment and cuisine Making luxury accessible to all FEATURE: PREMIUM EXPERIENCE Costa Smeralda’s CoDE museum enables guests to familiarise themselves with Italy’s design history