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| Builder: |
Cantieri Navali Baglietto |
| Architecture: |
Rodriquez Engineering/Cantieri Navali Baglietto |
| Exterior Design: |
Tommaso Spadolini/Ivana Porfiri |
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While most designers aim to gently blur the line between
interior and exterior spaces, subtly transitioning guests from aft deck to main
salon, Ivana Porfiri instead takes pains to signal the difference with angled
aluminum screens and LED lights. Once past, a guest aboard Nina J is ensconced in a new world of relaxation and sensory delight. Playful
ponytail rugs, walls of living, misted plants, and disappearing doors and walls
form the vocabulary for this dramatic departure from everything that has gone
before. A TV monitor in the floor plays a loop of sea scenes just at the point
where stairs descend to the lower deck. The effect is brilliant and seductive.
In the master suite, the typical demarcation between bedroom and bathroom is
blurred, as is the line between bedroom and sea when windows roll away and the
walls fold outward to become diving platforms. In her playfulness,
Nina J reminds us why we run away to sea.
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