Emanuele Luzzati
Hammered Brass Panel #22
From Grill Bar

Items from SS STELLA SOLARIS (ex CAMBODGE)

Measurements: 23.5 Inches Tall by 48.75 Inches Wide
2" Lip On Right Side

Hammered Brass Panel Mounted on Wood
Price: $750.00

The handsome Grill Bar from an early STELLA SOLARIS brochure.

The Grill Bar in its latter day Royal Olympic years. Top, facing forward; center, facing aft; bottom, the aft corner, facing aft. Photos and copyright Peter Knego 2001.

Luzzati strikes again! By now, if you have been browsing this site for any length of time, you will have encountered a number of masterpieces by Genoa-based Emanuele Luzzati. I recommend that if you are as smitten as me, go and do a search in Google and read all about this fascinating and brilliant man. These last few pieces will most likely be the end of my offerings of individual hammered metal panels from Luzzati. Quite sadly, the last of the ships carrying these types of his work are now gone or significantly altered.

STELLA SOLARIS was a ship of enormous quality and detail. Very few public spaces were devoid of art. The Grill Bar was located on the port side of Solaris Deck and served as an ante room and passageway to the dining room. Hard to believe this timeless nook is now history. From here, so many SOLARIS passengers and crew made lifelong friends and experienced indelible memories with an evolving backdrop ranging from the blue Aegean to the murky Amazon.

I found the bar lying in the mud at one of the Alang traders in the early summer of 2005. The panels were all lined up behind it and were not for sale unless I bought the bar. After much haggling, I basically paid the trader's price for the whole ensemble and left the bar (unfortunately too big and too difficult to sell). The aft section will stay together, but the forward section was missing some components, so I do not feel bad about selling the individual pieces. These were so forlorn looking, but after some cleaning and repairs, they look quite wonderful once again. It is amazing to see how much "personality" the brilliant Mr. Luzzati can inject into inanimate objects such as teapots, bread baskets, and wine bottles!

This panel has a two inch lip on the right side as it was at the forward end of the ensemble. It can be carefully removed, if desired, but I have left it as is for its next owner to decide.