Beautiful Art Deco-inspired pieces for your superyacht interior

The Art Deco era was also the golden age of travel, when ocean liners were the apotheosis of style and technology. Often romanticised in design, those sophisticated days at sea are currently being celebrated until October 9, 2017 at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, in the exhibition Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed, and Style before a similarly titled exhibition, Ocean Liners: Speed & Style opens at London's Victoria & Albert Museum in early 2018. In their honour, Mieke Ten Have picks the top Art Deco-inspired pieces for your superyacht interior.

Bill Sofield side table

Bill Sofield’s suite of furniture for Baker focuses on Art Deco’s “functional definition of beauty.” Sofield channeled French furniture maker and interior designer Armand-Albert Rateau’s segmented reed motif for the Gracie nightstand, mixing walnut with an oyster grey marble top and a white gold-leaf shell handle.

POA, bakerfurniture.com

Ralph Lauren has always had a passion for Art Deco design. New outdoor fabric Villa Bleu, based on a 1920s French poster, conjures up luxury transatlantic crossings in a densely repeating pattern of ocean liners at sea.

$117 per yard, ralphlaurenhome.com

Jean Puiforcat’s avant-garde motifs look just as modern today as when introduced nearly 100 years ago. This set of Limoges plates, “Initiales,” subtly captures the letters he created for one of the cutlery designs at his eponymous family firm, and balances both linear and curvilinear forms.

From $152, puiforcat.com

L’Objet’s founder Elad Yifrach turned to jewellery-making techniques for his collection of boxes, vases, and candles titled “Voyage d’Or.” Balancing smoothness and texture, this graphic box design is reminiscent of the famed and highly sought after Line Vautrin boxes of the 1930s.

$395, l-objet.com

Titled “Grand Tour,” decoupage artist John Derian’s enchanting line of cards and envelopes for classic New York stationery brand Dempsey & Carroll is a nod to the era when wealthy Americans made cultural pilgrimages across Europe.

$55 for a set of 10, dempseyandcarroll.com