Seabourn Art Collection Reflects Variety, Quality, Refined Taste

So when it came to selecting a collection of artworks for the line's newest ship, the company sought pieces that possessed the same refined sensibility that pervades the rest of the guests' onboard experience.

Dutch artist Barbara Nanning creates beautiful, vividly colored, blown glass forms with glossily finished surfaces. These are located on walls in the Main Staircase and Atrium, as well as in the Grand Salon. In a gallery near The Restaurant on Deck 4, two small sculptures of space-suited astronauts by Alberto Togni evoke an other-worldly sense as they apparently climb up into the space from somewhere below. In the main elevator lobby on Deck 5, a glass case encloses an exquisite scale model of Thunderbird, a classic, streamlined 55' wooden speedboat originally built for the Thunderbird Lodge on Nevada's Lake Tahoe.

The Forward Staircase houses photographic images of the sky by Heidi Wexeler Goksøyr, Larry Vogel, Camille Seaman and Cara Weston, while landings display landscape images by the renowned Australian photographer Peter Lik. The Card Room walls, on Deck 7, are decorated with framed illustrations from antique playing cards.

Photography is an important element of the art on Seabourn Quest. In Seabourn Square, the innovative concierge lounge on board Seabourn Quest, the walls display images by iconic fashion photographers of the 20th century, including John French, Horst, Herb Ritts and Richard Avedon. The entry to The Club is filled with colorful photo-collages of great jazz artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington and Billie Holliday by Brian Albers. Another offbeat touch is a soft sculpture by Peter Clark crafted from a ballerina's tutu.
Glass is a favored medium on board, with a variety of blown and cast glass objects in a myriad of colors, shapes and textures. In elevator lobbies on Deck 8, guests will see extravagantly decorated glass amphorae created by Eva Galligani. The hallway outside The Spa at Seabourn presents a splendid venue for displaying art. On Seabourn, six glass pieces ranging from geometric designs to amoebic organic shapes are by artists Tobias Møhl, Lotte Thorsøe, Torben Jørgensen, Trine Drivsholm, Karin Mørch and Steffen Dam.

The midships lobby on Deck 5 is given over to whimsy. On Quest, visitors are met by an impassive "Diver" sculpture by Ola Enstad, standing with arms crossed and flippered feet outspread, faceless behind his opaque facemask.

The lobby outside the Colonnade on Deck 8 is a place where antique objects are displayed. Aboard Quest this spot is reserved for a variety of lovely antique porcelain plates from Delft in the Netherlands. A generous square of wall in the entry to the Observation Bar on Deck 10 calls for a bold statement, fulfilled brilliantly by vivid abstract paintings from Per Didrik Wærner.

Moderation is called for in choosing art for the suites, since they are occupied by a variety of guests with varying tastes. Seabourn provides abstract images, again by Per Didrik Wærner, that are strongly evocative of land and seascapes.

There are many more art objects waiting to surprise and delight guests aboard Seabourn Quest. Like the guests themselves, they are varied, but invariably interesting, smart and fun to be with, which is why they fit in so well on a Seabourn ship.
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