Normandie: France's Legendary Art Deco Ocean Liner

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Reviews:

Impressive but Lacking
Impressive AM image of Normandy of certain sights. As a former marine engineer of sea, I was disappointed to find a description cursive of TWO pages of the Turbo-Électrique factory of the propulsion of Normandy, which was, after all, much more responsible for his blue passage of Ribband than anything else. An image of an engine of propulsion, probably of a model. We had one of the lifeboats of Normandy to Kings Point, the academy of merchant navy of the USA, that I was useful in the Fifties.


Is this apropros?
I must agree with the review by Michael of Boston. It is a beautiful book but prose is affected and extremely awkward. Was the author being deliberately blazing because of the subject? If it were then it was definately overpower. An effort disapointing of the author "in the only manner of crossing". I motionless purchase it however just for the images and the quality of the provision and naturally for the image of Normandy being with the anchor in addition to forty.


Good author, excellent book
Deliver of John Maxtone Graham the ONLY MANNER OF CROSSING. The foreword by the lord of Walter was the inspiration so that I start to gather something which I could on transatlantic coverings of ocean, in particular before the semi-twentieth century. After me to have bought it behind at the beginning of the Seventies did not can put it downwards. This book on Normandy makes a point my interest like "the only manner of crossing" made only thus. Well written with many excellent photographs. A must have for any amateur of covering of ocean.


An Inspiring Book
Thank you Mr. Maxtone-Graham for this eagerly anticipated tome for my collection. When you first told me of it's imminent release, during a QE2 crossing almost two years ago, I've been on pins and needles. It's been one of the highlights of my season, and I'm not at all disappointed. I received the book before lunchtime and listened to my hunger pangs as I turned each page unable to put it down.

This book is a good balance of text with photos I have never seen before. Being an artist and designer, I am impressed with the layout and design, noting especially the cover and inside composite illustration. And it's printed in Italy! The historical perspective is complete and accurate as always. It's a must have for the SS Normandie enthusiast, design student, or maritime historian.

I love chapter two with your inclusion of the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs of 1925. I had the privilege of seeing an art deco exhibit in London at the V&A, and one of the exhibits was brief film footage of a crossing on Normandie in colour. What a treat.

The fold outs of the deck plans are very interesting showing how CGT had a complete vision of the deco style that didn't end with the furniture or interior embelishments, but extended to the overall architecture of the ship. It's also interesting to see the overviews of the cabins on those decks, and as to the whereabouts of the surviving relics today.

Someone told me how he once had seen a friend off on Normandie, commenting how it was the most beautiful ship he had ever seen. The generous photos in this book give me an idea of what he experienced. Especially the large photo of the lift, which is wonderfully placed at the end. These photos are all nicely restored with nice tonal balance.

A better book couldn't be possible given the short life of this ship. I always enjoy reading your eloquent style, and, as a quintessential historian, your personal perspective is superb. Thank you again for this most inspiring addition to my collection.


Foundering
As an enormous ventilator of Normandy, and avid reader of traditional of Maxtone-Graham "only manner of crossing," I pre-ordered NORMANDY with great hopes. Unfortunately, the promise of the book was not met. In fact, this volume comes as narrowly as any can from book of covering to being completely irritating. How that? A bag of encavator of the complaints, in any particular order: the illustrations, generally, are rather common images of Normandy - there is very small innovation here, and more annoying, the images and the legends are not connected to the close text. Find something of interest, and you will have to seek by the pages to locate the adapted passage, often left chapters. The text itself is pompeux, pedant and preachy, full with the absurd expressions such as "not," and "leave us," who far could really amuse if they were not simply indications curiously of one not disjoined and dissatisfaisant the account which excavates in the atrocious levels of the detail during one moment, then annotates the whole subjects the next one (more astonishing of Maxtone-Graham, whose first work is the principal examples of prose full with spirit and concise.) Worst from all, Maxtone-Graham did not fall into that most dreadful from the modern assignments, influenced any doubt by the whole of Cameron-Winslet-DiCaprio, to drop the determiner before the names from the boats, as if the ships were in way or other the alive people. While to refer itself to coverings in this way could make for a sharper film-manufacture, in a work with erudite prevoltages, it is simply exasperating, particularly once taken by the author with news, more ridiculous sizes. In current volume, even the names of the platform of Normandy come alive, in the lines like: "expose to the sun the fôlatrée platform," "platform of praised walk." Tempora of O, mores of O! Volume contains some nice contacts, in some manner that: the drawn one with share, colorized of the plans of platform and the cross-section are a large device (however curiously the author chose to publish the sights of dish-plan, rather than the isometric plans made for Rio lead to normal speed, which are much more indicating.) The chapter on the artistic development of the steamer of the style is completely good, providing to the reader true perspicacities in the genesis of Normandy. And in spite of the lack of sights of novel, one must grant kudos to anyone that cleaned and made the photographs black and white of the book in sepia. Generally, these images are excellent, finally making it possible to the reader to disfigure in formerly dark and strident images with clearness (however unfortunately, several illustrations are trompeusement allotted one makes out, including an error of bursting in the recognitions, which marks the continuation "Rouen of Caen.") I also found the section to compare the relative call of Normandy and the Mary Queen of interest, although I think active connections of Cunard of the author return some of his inférences a suspect of little. In the sum, whereas the new book of made Maxtone-Graham with work proportioned to connect the facts behind the career too short of Normandy, it makes little to explain the magic which thus fascinated - and continuous to fascinate - take on board enthusiasts to date even. And in $100 volumes, this, readers of comrade, is straw mortal indeed.



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