The edge of innovation: New cabin design on Celebrity ship brings floor-to-ceiling windows
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Peek inside one of the groundbreaking new Edge Stateroom with Infinite Veranda cabins on the new Celebrity Edge.
USA TODAY
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Balcony cabins on cruise ships may never be the same.
Celebrity Cruises this week is unveiling an innovative new design for the standard balcony cabin on ocean ships that features a full wall of glass.
Debuting on the Miami-based line’s new Celebrity Edge, the Edge Stateroom with Infinite Veranda cabins lack a separated balcony area that is accessible through a doorway at the end of the room.
Instead, there is a wall of glass at the end of the room that slides open from the ceiling at the touch of a button. The glass descends to the level of a traditional balcony railing, creating a balcony-like feel.
The new design allows for a bigger-than-normal interior cabin area. The area that would have been devoted to a traditional balcony is incorporated into the main cabin area – increasing its size by about 23 percent.
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“It took a lot of re-engineering (and) … a lot of different thinking,” Celebrity Cruises President and CEO Lisa Lutoff-Perlo told USA TODAY this week in an exclusive interview. “It took a lot of people telling us ‘I don’t think we can do that.’ “
Lutoff-Perlo said outfitting Celebrity Edge with the Infinite Veranda cabins required adding about 2 percent more volume to the vessel than otherwise would be needed.
“That was a big deal,” she said.
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standard cabins lined with walls of glass that open wide.
The new balcony design for the Infinite Veranda cabins isn’t the only cabin-related innovation on Edge. The ship’s cabins also feature new technology that lets passengers control room lighting, shades, temperature and televisions from an app on their phone.
The Infinite Veranda cabins were developed in collaboration with London-based interior designer Kelly Hoppen.
Edge arrived at Florida’s Port Everglades, in the Fort Lauderdale area, last week after a 15-night journey from the shipyard in France where it had been under construction for more than a year. It’s schedule to sail its first cruise with paying passengers on Saturday and be christened in early December.
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