As some loyal readers may know, Telstar Logistics decorated our corporate headquarters with pieces from salvaged aircraft, much of which was recovered from airplane scrapyards in the American southwest . So it was with a great deal of empathy that we opened today's New York Times to find an article about Peter Knego, a gentleman who decorated his Moorpark, California home with pieces salvaged from midcentury ocean liners recovered from maritime scrapyards in Alang, India.
The NYT writes:
Altogether, Mr. Knego said, he has spent about half a million dollars on his seven trips to India, and another $70,000 or so shipping the spoils home to Moorpark. Friends help him unload the 40-foot-long containers and sort the contents in his backyard. [...]
Mr. Knego and his partner of 22 years, Mike Masino, a cost estimator for an aerospace company, have decorated their house with as much of the cache as possible. The living room is centered on a bar from the Aureol, which was built in Glasgow in 1951. Dining room furniture is from the Aureol, the Ivernia and the Stella Oceanis. A stair with a railing salvaged from the Ivernia leads to the second floor, where the master bedroom contains a mirror from the Empress of Canada and art from the Stella Oceanis by the Italian painter Emanuele Luzzati.
Would-be home decorators who are somewhat less obsessed than Mr. Knego, or who can't make the trip to Alang, should take note: the NYT helpfully points out that the MidShipCentury website also sells fittings from former cruise ships for sale to the public.
Images: Kaushal Trivedi and Kaushal Trivedi for the New York Times
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