Indoor Swimming pool
Main Stairway
Main Stairway
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D-Deck - Indoor Swimming Pool: The pool itself is a glass mosaic-covered reinforced concrete tub measuring five-and-a-half by eight-and-a-half meters and varying in depth from one-and-a-half to two meters. It is provided with an overflow rim which also serves as a handrail. The mosaics on the bottom are sand-colored and contain a decorative motif in the form of a school of fish in multi-colored Majolica, made by De Porceleyne Fles, Delft. The wall decoration consisted of aluminum sculptures by Jan Rot of Delft. The major portion of these have disappeared over time. |
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As mentioned above, the main stair of the ship was inspired by one in the Chateau Chambord of French King Francois I. These two spiral stairways were intertwined in such a fashion that two persons could pass each other unseen. The two stairways on the ROTTERDAM started side by side on the same deck, but kept the passengers of each class separated because they climbed in opposite directions. The separation between the classes, both in the athwartships and the fore-and aft direction at each vestibule was obtained by the use of sliding partitions which could be opened or closed at will. The scissor stairs were separated by means of six panels of applique glass, designed by glazier W. Akkermans of Rotterdam and manufactured by Glasindustrie F. van Tetterode, Amsterdam. Formed in double panels which mirrored one another, the panels represented (ascending from A-Deck to Boat Deck): the sea floor, the waves, the ship, the strength of the wind, the birds, and the cosmos. The vestibules were mainly executed in olive wood in combination with rosewood and Vynide walls with anodized aluminum strips. Stair railings are of enameled steel with decorations in anodized aluminum. More >> 5. Interior decorators of the ss Rotterdam
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