Page 17 - DreamScapes Magazine | Winter 2024/2025

PHOTOS: REGENT SEVEN SEAS CRUISES
INSIDER TIP:
TAKE A TOUR
On the second day of your voyage
(embarkation day is too busy), guests
can experience a self-guided art tour
of Seven Seas Grandeur directly on their
phones, available on the Regent app.
On any of RSSC’s ships view amazing
artworks with background information
on the artist and the inspiration for
the piece.
A Bit About RSSC
For over three decades, Regent Seven Seas
Cruises has been providing true luxury at sea.
Its fleet of six ships is small and intimate,
with none carrying more than 746 guests. In
total, RSSC sails to over 550 destinations
worldwide. Once you’re on board, you’ll love
it. Each ship offers an all-inclusive experi-
ence, with refined accommodations and
gourmet dining, plus as many complimen-
tary shore excursions as you like. And the
cruise line has made a serious commitment
to elevating everyone’s experience through
art and design, especially on-board its three
newest ships.
Introducing Seven Seas
Grandeur
Christened last December, Seven Seas
Grandeur certainly lives up to its name. Every
state room is a suite, and all have balconies.
Throughout, the touches of award-winning
design Studio DADO are everywhere, in the
seven restaurants and the public spaces that
absolutely sparkle. Sometimes literally. Over
the grand staircase, a chandelier inspired by a
tennis bracelet glimmers. In the ship’s signa-
ture restaurant, Compass Rose, diners will
find trees embellished with crystal and fine
china on the tables by Versace.
But it’s the 1,600-piece art collection that
everyone’s talking about—and that sets this
ship apart from anything the cruising world
has ever seen before. It took RSSC’s art
director Sarah Hall Smith two years of
painstaking effort to curate, commission and
collect the pieces. And perhaps the most
joyous part: the works aren’t cloistered into a
designated gallery space. Rather, they’re
spread throughout Regent Grandeur, so you
can enjoy them casually.
It’s hard to pick the biggest highlight, but
definitely among them are the three works
by Picasso. Toros y Toreros, Antes de picar al
toro and Picador picando al toro, con matador
al quite transport you to another world. A
place of matadors and bulls, an agrarian
Spain that is as colourful and dynamic as it
is gone forever. Living only, now, in memory
and imagination—and on the leather walls
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