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The Orient Express was a famous luxury train of the Belgian Compagnie Internationales de Wagons-lits (CIWL) that ran from Paris (with connection from London) to Istanbul, formerly known as Constantinople.
This train ran as a regular service, with interruptions and on different routes, under different names between 1883 and 1977. It was an example of travelling in grand style where the landscape slowly changed from country to country.
The Frenchman Maxime D’Angeac and the finest artisans in France, reimagined the first cars new Orient Express train that will be available for public exploration in 2024, with a formal launch in 2025. His plans were presented in Paris and at Design Miami/ in 2022.
« The Belgian Georges Nagelmackers turned his dream into reality by launching the first luxury Orient Express trains around 140 years ago. Today, the legend continues with the unveiling of the future Orient Express train. We are proud, to reveal the first images of the future Orient Express train. A story inspired by a dream, a timeless train, the object of all fantasies which becomes a reality again. Maxime d’Angeac’s design awakens the myth with the revelation of its luxury, modernity, and French elegance. Tomorrow, the Orient Express will shine again, proud of its 140 years of history and looking to the future. Its illustrates the starting point of this project as a dream: a contemporary story that sprung from the legend of the Orient Express. It is a projection into an era, the 1920s, and into the culture of luxury and its artisans. The legend continues », according to Sébastien Bazin, Chairman & CEO, Accor.
The future Orient Express is first and foremost a technical challenge. Its is an object in motion, complex, defined by the beauty of rhythm and by the laws of gravity, traversed by technological revolutions, by the history of inventions and design.