The new Seven Seas Grandeur will showcase a 1,600-piece collection that took nearly two years to curate. As an added first at sea, Regent Seven Seas Cruises will be introducing a digital art tour, Art Experience, available through the new Regent Mobile App, which provides an interactive experience with the artwork and the artist who created the piece. The tour will expand on works within central guest areas, including Robert Rauschenberg, Roberto Matta, Sophie Elizabeth Thompson and Eduardo Arranz-Bravo.
“With each new ship, our team works tirelessly to identify and source the most impressive array of art pieces, building a collection that would be enviable by most modern-day museums, to ensure our guests’ time onboard is as enriching and thought-provoking as their time on land,” said Andrea DeMarco, president of Regent Seven Seas.
The highly anticipated art collection has been a topic of discussion since the exterior design of the first piece of art, a commissioned Fabergé Egg Journey in Jewels was unveiled last year. The first and only Fabergé Egg to reside permanently at sea, the interior design and mechanisms of this one-of-a-kind piece remain cloaked in mystery and will be revealed alongside the full art collection during Seven Seas Grandeur’s christening in Miami this December.
Regent Seven Seas announced that Sarah Fabergé, founding member of The Fabergé Heritage Council, and great-granddaughter of Peter Carl Fabergé, will serve as godmother to Seven Seas Grandeur. One of Sarah’s first duties as godmother will be to host art lovers on a special Spotlight Voyage in July, featuring behind-the-scenes access to Fabergé through master classes and shoreside excursions.
Another centerpiece work is a nearly 40-foot-tall hand-woven tapestry, The Enchanted Tree, created by world-renowned Brazilian artist Walter Goldfarb. It will hang adjacent to the elevator wall in the ship’s lavish atrium, giving multiple vantage points of this breathtaking feat of intricately woven textiles.
Another exclusive artwork a custom-made bronze and hand-cast glass Bonsai Cherry Tree Sculpture by Savoy Studios, creating an experiential entrance to Pacific Rim, Grandeur’s pan-Asian specialty restaurant. The delicate installation contrasts with the Pacific Rim entrance pieces of a Tibetan prayer wheel and mythical dragon found on board Seven Seas Explorer and Seven Seas Splendor, respectively.
Trees are an ongoing design theme for Seven Seas Grandeur, and this also can be seen in the largest specialty restaurant at sea, Compass Rose. Once inside the restaurant, guests will sit under a canopy of interwoven crystal and wood-edged illuminated trees, giving the illusion of dining in an enchanted forest featuring thousands of individually placed crystal-faceted leaves, enveloping the restaurant in an awe-inspiring display.
Seven Seas Grandeur is sailing Caribbean itineraries from Miami this winter and then heads to the Mediterranean in the Spring and Summer. A series of fall cruises sail between Montreal and Boston or New York.
