The essay presents some unpublished works of ship decoration created by the scenographer Piero Zuffi, recently returned to the attention of critics after two decades of oblivion. In the fifties, having settled in Milan, Zuffi met Gio Ponti who invited him to produce a large panel for the ballroom of the liner Andrea Doria, the occasion was a harbinger of other assignments for naval works and the meeting with Nino Zoncada. The interior designer specialized in naval interiors – Zoncada collaborated with Ponti in the projects for ship outfitting – finds in Zuffi the ideal interpreter for the creation of decorations on board two ships, Ausonia in 1957 and Federico C. in 1958. Zuffi’s works are illustrated here with reference to their integration into Zoncada’s architecture. The latest naval decorative intervention is that for the Achille Lauro ship in 1966, which concludes this particular field of application of Piero Zuffi’s art.
