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A project that nearly foundered as her owners pursued quality and technical perfection, the aprtly named Phoneix is a soaring achievement.
by Marilyn Mower
photography by Stephane Bravin
03/01/2005
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“When you walk into a room, I don’t think everything in it should be
immediately noticeable. You should enjoy the first experience, but each time you
enter, you should notice a little more,” said Winch, who readily attributes the
development of the ensemble details to his senior project manager, Matthew
Chatt-Collins. With Phoenix, detail reaches new heights. “Few clients would
encourage their design team to explore design to this level and fewer still
shipyards could comply,” Winch said.
Phoenix’s dramatic interior would not be
half so engaging were it not for appropriate use of color. For color guidance
and fabric, carpet and stone selections, the owners turned to North
Carolina-based designer Dawn Moffitt, who had worked with them in refitting a
Feadship and on a residence. Despite the distances separating the team, the end
result is seamless with no competition between soft goods and architecture.
Beautiful stonework, and lots of it, plays a strong role in the ensemble of
details. “These clients love decorative stone; they aren’t afraid of color and
they like diversity,” Moffitt said. In fact, Phoenix features 30 different
stones selected during a three-day marathon at Antelli stonecutters in Verona,
Italy.
The yacht’s lighting plan is complex. Most illumination is indirect,
and much of that is via cold cathode tube elements used as cove lighting on
innovative overheads that wash light from what appear to be free-floating beams.
The exact color of white light they produce is adjusted for each
space.
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