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NEW ORIENT EXPRESS TRAIN
The Historical Train Experience Is Back
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The Orient Express needs no introduction; and yet with the announcement of it undergoing a makeover to render it available for service in 2025, the uber-luxurious train is ready to re-introduce itself. Some 140 years after the launch of the first Orient Express trains revolutionised the culture of luxury travel. The Orient Express 2.0 seems to blend a 1920s aesthetics with contemporary styles and mod-cons - a call button for Champagne at the tables of the bar car, modern artwork throughout the cabins, a layout conceived to optimise space - alongside original details like Lalique flower lamps and Morrison and Nelson marquetry. The latter was found pretty much intact when the train was ‘rediscovered’ in 2015 by industrial history researcher Arthur Mettetal, after it had been abandoned for almost 10 years on the border between Belarus and Poland. Among other refinements the textured carpets of the corridors - described as “theatrical”, Second Empire-style domes of light of the bar are also notable.
French architect Maxime D’Angeac D’ANGEAC HAD A BRILLIANT RESULT ON HIS CREATIVITY
Operated by the Orient Express brand, the new edition of the legendary train has a tie-in to the past
Vivid furnishings add a modern twist
A blend of asynchronous design styles
Leather walls
