Editing RMS Queen Mary (section)

===Interior===
[[Arthur Joseph Davis]] of Messrs, Mewes and Davis, and [[Benjamin Wistar Morris (architect)|Benjamin Wistar Morris]] designed the ''Queen Mary's'' interior spaces.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cwiklo |first=W. |title=Benjamin Wistar Morris – The American Architect of the Queen Mary |url=https://www.sterling.rmplc.co.uk/visions/benmorris.html |access-date=9 April 2024 |website=www.sterling.rmplc.co.uk}}</ref> The [[Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts|Bromsgrove Guild]] constructed much of the ship's interior, while [[H. H. Martyn & Co.|H.H. Martyn & Co.]] built the staircases, foyers, and entrances[[H.H. Martyn & Co.|.]]<ref>{{cite book |author=John Whitaker|year=1985|title=The Best|page=238}}</ref> Among the facilities available on board ''Queen Mary'', the liner featured two indoor swimming pools, beauty salons, libraries and children's nurseries for all three classes, a music studio, a lecture hall, telephone connectivity to anywhere in the world, outdoor paddle tennis courts, and dog kennels. The largest room on board was the [[first class travel|cabin class]] main dining room (grand salon), spanning three stories in height and anchored by wide columns. The ship had many air-conditioned public rooms on board. The cabin-class swimming pool facility spanned over two decks in height. This was the first ocean liner to be equipped with her own Jewish prayer room{{spaced ndash}}part of a policy to show that British shipping lines avoided the antisemitism evident in [[Nazi Germany]].<ref>
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The cabin class main dining room featured a large map of the transatlantic crossing, with twin tracks symbolising the winter/spring route (further south to avoid icebergs) and the summer/autumn route. During each crossing, a small motorised model of ''Queen Mary'' would travel along the mural to indicate the vessel's progress en route.

As an alternative to the main dining room, ''Queen Mary'' featured a separate cabin class Verandah Grill on the Sun Deck at the upper aft of the ship. The Verandah Grill was an exclusive ''[[à la carte]]'' restaurant with a capacity of approximately eighty passengers and converted to the Starlight Club at night. It was designed and painted by [[Doris Zinkeisen]] and [[Cecil Beaton]] described it as "By far the prettiest room on any ship".<ref name="daao">{{Cite web |date=14 November 2007 |title=Doris Clare Zinkeisen |url=http://www.daao.org.au/main/read/6804 |accessdate=23 April 2010 |publisher=Dictionary of Australian Artists Online}}</ref><ref name="Massey">{{cite book |last=Massey |first=Anne |url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodbeyonds00mass |title=Hollywood Beyond the Screen: Design and Material Culture |publisher=Berg Publishers |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-85973-321-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/hollywoodbeyonds00mass/page/n108 96] |url-access=limited}}</ref> Also on board was the Observation Bar, an Art Deco-styled lounge with wide ocean views.

Woods from different regions of the [[British Empire]] were used in her public rooms and staterooms. Accommodation ranged from fully equipped, luxurious cabin (first) class staterooms to modest and cramped third-class cabins. Artists commissioned by Cunard in 1933 for works of art in the interior include [[Edward Wadsworth]] and [[A. Duncan Carse]],<ref>{{cite magazine
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as well as [[Algernon Newton]] RA whose painting ''Evening on the Avon'' hung opposite Bertram Nicholls' ''Sussex'' in the Long Gallery.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
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|image:QMfirstclassdining.jpg|alt1=|First class dining room, now known as the "Grand Salon". Note the mural above, which had a moving crystal model that tracked the route progress of the ''Queen Mary'' and later, when in service, {{RMS|Queen Elizabeth}}.
|image:RMS Queen Mary Dining Room Map edit1.jpg|alt2=|Mural in the main dining room, or "Grand Salon" on which a crystal model tracked the ship's progress
|image:RMS Queen Mary Grand Salon edit.jpg|alt3=|First class dining room, now known as the "Grand Salon"
|image:QMobservation.jpg|alt4=|Observation Bar. Note the lower band of windows that look into the enclosed Promenade Deck. They were removed in 1967 after the lounge was extended.
|image:Queen Mary the Opulent Art Deco Observation Bar.jpg|alt5=|Observation Bar lounge. The windows were once part of the enclosed Promenade Deck turnaround; the lounge was extended forward after 1967.
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