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It looks like a ship from a parallel universe, but in fact she is the MV Kalakala, world's first streamlined, Art Deco vessel, in service as a luxurious passenger ferry in the Puget Sound from 1935 to 1967pic.twitter.com/2SqMNKF1NE
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The spectacular, streamlined, porpoise-shaped, yet never built Ocean Liner designed in 1932 by Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958)pic.twitter.com/J7OyHwVFtN
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Bel Geddes's Ocean Liner model "retains features of Valéry's 'objet ambigu'. One can see that it is a manmade machine, yet it nonetheless has taken on the appearance of a thing shaped by wind and water, like a smoothly polished bone" https://bit.ly/2xM8Ew9 pic.twitter.com/UlV2ZX5K6n
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Bel Geddes's rendering of Airliner No. 4 (c. 1929-1932), charcoal on paper http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/NBGPublic/details.cfm?id=272 …pic.twitter.com/BM8HqhvVrt
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Does anyone know who the original architect was? Don't see any detail online.
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"Louis Proctor, an engineer for the Boeing Company, provided an early concept design" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Kalakala …
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What happened to the ship? It looks fantastic
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Never mind, I found the story on Wikipedia
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Like a giant aquatic Airstream trailer/caravan.
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Beautiful
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