However, the challenge of bringing light and ventilation in was one that we were aware of and so by making these platforms of concrete that floated, also pulling some light in from above through slots of skylight.
The rotunda is truly stunning: marble columns and walls, a stained glass skylight overhead and, at the center, a bronze statue of three muses, Art, History and Science, holding up a glowing orb.
But Editta would turn off all the lights, and on the night of a full moon...the moon would come through those skylights...Editta would come out and do the dying swan.
Other people called it a " floating palace" . Titanic had every possible luxury -- fine wood paneling, crystal and gold light fixtures, and a grand staircase with a skylight above it.