David Nightingale Hicks (1929 - 1998). Hicks was a creative interior designer and decorator, and was responsible for the design of the Quarter Deck Q4 Room, an innovative space aboard ship that served as a day lounge bar and night club in the evening.
Elizabeth Beloe and Tony Heaton, students from Royal College of Art, were selected to design the Sports Deck Children's Playroom and Boat Deck Juke Box and Coffee Shop, following a suggestion by Dennis Lennon to Hugh Casson, Head of the Interior Design Department at the college.
Gaby Schreiber (1916 - 1991). Schreiber was one of Britain's leading post-war female designers, establishing Gaby Schreiber & Associates in 1943. In 1958 Schreiber beat off competition to design interiors for BOAC's fleet of de Havilland Comet IV, Bristol Britannia, Boeing 707, and Douglas DC7 aircraft. Schreiber was responsible for the Upper Deck theatre and a range of suites aboard ship.
Jo Pattrick was already an established interior designer, often working alongside her husband, Michael Pattrick. Pattrick worked on a number of social and private housing schemes and for educational organisations. Aboard ship Pattrick was responsible for the Six Deck Hospital and officers and crew accommodation.
Jon Bannenberg (1929 - 2002). Australian-born Bannenberg moved to Britain in 1952, establishing an interior design company. From the 1960s onwards Bannenberg specialised in the exterior and interior design of yachts and over the next four decades designed some 200 yachts. Aboard ship Bannenberg was responsible for the centre-piece 20,000 sq ft, 800-seat Double Room, the Quarter Deck Card Room, the Six Deck Swimming Pool and a range of cabin interiors.
Michael John Chantrey Inchbald (b. 1920). Inchbald was an interior designer, who had previously worked on ship and yacht interiors including those aboard the RMS Windsor Castle. Inchbald was responsible for the Quarter Deck Queens Room and Quarter Deck Library.
Professor Misha Black (1910 - 1977). Azerbaijan-born Black (born Moisei Tcherny) was a leading British architect and designer. His family fled Russia in 1912, amidst growing anti-semitism. He attended evening classes at the Central School of Arts and Craft in London before becoming part of the Artists' International Association. He was appointed Professor of Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art in 1955. He was later appointed Design Consultant to London Transport, and coordinated design across the Underground network. Black designed the Synagogue on Three Deck.
Stefan Buzás (1915 - 2008). Hungarian-born Buzás was a modernist architect and fled his home country as the political situation in Eastern Europe deteriorated in 1938. Like many contemporary leading architects in post-war Britain Buzás worked on the Festival of Britain, designing part of the Dome of Discovery. Buzás worked with Alan Irvine (with whom he worked on London interiors for investment banks Schroder Wagg and Lazards) on the Boat Deck '736' Club, Gallery and shops, along with a selection of suites.
Theo Crosby (1925 - 1994). Crosby was already an established sculptor and architect before entering partnership with Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes, forming Crosby Fletcher Forbes in 1965. Crosby led designs for the Upper Deck 'Lookout' Observation Lounge. The partnership also coordinated and designed all the on-board signage and graphics.
There was a bold, modern approach to design elsewhere, with Cunard commissioned leading designers to create unique artwork, furniture and tableware.
Throughout the ship Cunard complemented the interiors with furniture by Geoffrey Dunn, a leading furniture and interior designer, and former member of the selection committee for the 1946 "Britain Can Make It" exhibition. Dunn was responsible for the design and construction of 'loose' furniture for the ship. Elsewhere, French-born designer Janine Janet (1913 - 2000) was responsible for the Princess Grill "Four Elements" statues. English designer John Egerton Christmas Piper (1903 - 1992) was responsible for maquette panels of windows of St Andrew's Church, Wolverhampton and Swedish designer Helena Hernmarck (b 1941) produced designs for three launch tapestries. David Harrington Angus Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry (1929 - ), Professor of Ceramics at the Royal College of Art from 1959 until 1983, designed the 'Steelite' tableware for the ship.