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Four prominent designers discuss yachting’s version of the Little Black Dress.
by Louis Postel
01/01/2005
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“Designing
a
boat
is not
like
designing a
house.
It’s
important
to
respect the
geometry of the
hull,
whether
it’s
a
motor
yacht
or
a
sailing yacht.
The cultural references of
yacht
interiors
[seem to be] Las
Vegas hotel
lobbies.
Our European
clients,
however,
insist on
interiors that
are
more
like their
own
beautiful –
often quite
modern
–
houses,” he
says.
“Luxury is about
space
and
function,
and
materials and
craftsmanship,”
says
Pickering. “In
our
view, luxury is not
simply
highly
varnished
burled wood and
gold
taps.
It is an
elegantly served
dinner
for
sixteen and the
hand-stitched
leather
lockers aboard Wally
B;
the
sense of
space
in
the just
completed 170-foot
Benetti
Sai Ram;
and
the
rapport of exteriors,
interiors and
the
informal
lifestyle
aboard the
Wally
Power
118.
 Dick Young Designs’ birchwood, oiled teak and
stainless steel interior for the
140-foot sailing yacht Gimlä,
launched
by Vitters in 2004, is a stunning example
of
modernism afloat.
(Click image to enlarge)
“Our
interest is
inspired by the
architecture of
Pierre
Chareau and
the
designs of
Eileen Grey – the
modernism
of
spaces and the
transformability
of
functions
– in
which
idiosyncratic and
luxurious furniture
contrasts with the
perfect
machine
for
living.
Beloved objects should
be part
of
a
modern
interior, as
well. The
key is the
total
integration of
the exterior
and
interior for
the dissolution
of
boundaries between the
two: That’s
the logic
of our
work.
“Modernism
isn’t
about
forms, it’s about
approach:
Understanding
spaces,
functions, and
people’s
lives
and trying to
make
them better,”
Pickering
says.
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