Carnival Cruise Ship Designer Joseph Farcus - Design on the High Seas - CRR 007

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🗓️ 21 July 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Farcus is a legend in the cruise industry. He designed every Carnival Cruise Line ship from 1977 to 2011, and stayed with Carnival Corporation until he retired in 2014.

Joseph recently published a book called Design on the High Seas, and he joins me to talk about the book and gives us a look behind the curtain.

He also discusses how he designed the signature Carnival funnel, why so many Carnival Cruise Line ships have neon and other questions.

Amazon link to Design on the High Seas.

Date: July 21, 2019

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0:00.0	You are listening to this is Cruise Radio Rewind. Real reviews from Real Cruisers.
0:08.5	Super excited about today's interview because I had a chance to sit down with Carnival's
0:12.6	entertainment architect Joe Farkas. Joe pretty much designed every single carnival ship from
0:18.2	1977 all the way up until I believe he his last ship was carnival
0:23.2	magic but he stayed with Carnival Corporation until 2014. We covered a lot of ground in this
0:29.0	interview including how he came up with the idea of the funnel. That was Joe's idea. He walks us
0:34.6	through that. Also, what's up with all the neon lighting on the carnival ships?
0:38.6	Joe tackles that question and a lot more. Also, Joe gave me six books to give away, so you'll
0:43.2	want to listen to this interview closely. So Joe Farkas was the entertainment architect for
0:47.5	Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America, and Costa Cruises from 1977 to 2014. His new book,
0:54.0	Design on the High Seas, Setting This Scene for Entertainment Architecture
0:57.6	aboard cruise ships, was just released, and he's joining us today.
1:01.1	Joe, welcome to the show.
1:02.3	Well, thanks.
1:02.8	Hi, it's good to be here.
1:03.9	I want to just jump right in here and ask you, how did you get involved with maritime
1:07.1	architecture?
1:08.1	Just by dumb luck in a way, I was, by the way, I was always interested in ships.
1:14.5	So it was really super lucky ironic that I got into actually designing ships. Years ago, I was working
1:22.3	for an architect in Miami Beach, Morris Lappettus, who was famous for doing hotels and things of that nature.
1:29.1	And I met Ted Arison in that capacity. He was, Carnival had bought their second ship,
1:37.9	they're sorry, their first ship, the Mardi Gras, and I just was briefly involved with that,
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