012 | PROJECT | COSTA SMERALDA
Seaworthy Design Lichtvision has completed the lighting design for the new Costa Smeralda cruise ship, with an interiors masterplan by Tihany Design. Maintaining a constant lighting theme throughout the ship whilst giving each space its own identity was a key design choice.
Designed by four different interior designers (Partner Ship Design, Rockwell Group, Jeffrey Beers International and Dordoni Achitetti), under the guidance of Tihany Design’s masterplan, the Costa Smeralda cruise ship presents a large variety of design aesthetics between each of its spaces. The floating mini-city offers an incredible variety of areas between restaurants, shops and entertainment. Lichtvision Design was brought on board to complete the lighting design schemes for numerous areas on the ship. darc spoke with Karen Ihlau, one of the lead designers on the project to find out more about the architectural and decorative lighting scheme throughout. “We were approached for Costa Smeralda’s lighting design as
Lichtvision was already involved in the lighting design of other vessels belonging to Carnival Maritime Group (Aida Cruises),” explains Ihlau. “Lichtvision has been involved with Aida since 2007 and has designed the lighting for 10 of its vessels and will be completing the second Costa vessel by end of 2021. “The project took around two years from start to completion and was related mainly to lighting design of front of house and public areas, both interior and exterior (all restaurants, bars, gathering areas, theatre, museum, beach club and pools, spa, casino, show lounge, sport venues, indoor and outdoor decks etc. and also typical cabins and suites).
