INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AND LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE
Volume 1 - January 2018
S U P E RYAC H T
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Aesthetic Manifesto
Border on the left side: GIO PAGANI Wallpaper PANTONE 18-3838 Ultra Violet The Color Of The Year For 2018 The Pantone Color Institute
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Octopussy by Jonas Leriche, Digital C Print Art Angels Gallery, Los Angeles
Crystal Caviar tiles. A long line of decorative snaps in dark blue crystal (by Crystal Caviar) are embedded along all the exterior profile of the upper deck.
by Pamela Paci
100M PAM DE GLAM MEGAYACHT CONCEPT | FEADSHIP
THE CUSTOM PROCESS STARTS WITH AN OUTING: WHO ARE YOU? EPISODE 1 THE CREATION OF THIS CONCEPT IS "A BIG TRIP IN MY PERSONAL GARDEN AND IT EXPRESSES ALL THE IDEAS OF ME, ALL OF MY OBSESSIONS". IT IS THE FIRST BEJEWELED MEGAYACHT CONCEPT, A REAL EXPERIENCE OF A PURE CUSTOM PROJECT. Observation Deck
Infinity Pool with Beach Sand
Sirene Lounge
Crystal Caviar tiles shaped as decorative snaps adorn the exterior profile creating an amazing play of light
100m Pam De Glam megayacht concept
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big trip in my personal garden. With these words the Art Director of the Maison Gucci - Alessandro Michele, among the most important names in the fashion world - describes his creative process. And it is exactly with these same words that I would describe the way I have approached to The Carte Blanche Experience by Feadship. This story tells about a pure full-custom process that I have had the priviledge to live with Feadship, one of the top superyacht builders in the world. Acting the role of "a potential yacht owner interested in buying a new fully custom megayacht", I could create with the highly skilled design team of De Voogt Naval
Architects, more specifically with their senior designer, Tanno Weeda, my ideal megayacht, exactly the one I would like to buy one day... Maybe (and even without "maybe") I will never own a megayacht like this and Pam De Glam will remain just a work of great phantasy, but believe me, it was a super fantastic experience from which I've learned so much. Not only for the emotional aspect but also for the high seriousness and great professionalism I found in this great shipyard. I have had no obstacle: shapes, spaces, details... they were all taken into consideration and included in the project. What the owner asks, the shipyard makes it possible. This is their philosophy and it is true. 3
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STEP Before imagine what your ideal megayacht looks like, try to say something about yourself. Who am I, then? I am what I am. A lot of things mixed together where one lives in good harmony with its opposite. Yes, I am everything and its opposite. I'm a patchwork. A mosaic? No, I'm more like an artistic collage, that kind of technique that consists in composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another.
If you are asking what the origin of this project is, the answer is very easy. This project comes out of a meeting. I simply accepted the invitation of the Dutch shipyard to discover The Carte Blanche Experience. In other words, I have had the chance at the Monaco Yacht Show to embark on an intuitive virtual journey to discover "my Feadship DNA", an instant live action sketch drawn by their designers. The Carte Blanche Experience allowed me to see how my individual Feadship might look like... should I have the funds available to build one in the future.
Through this opportinuty I could explore the true meaning of a "custom superyacht". The excessive use of the term custom in today’s superyacht industry has made it tricky to know what the term actually entails. When Feadship states that it builds pure custom superyachts, it is referring to the way each project is designed TOTALLY FROM SCRATCH.
“Many of the greatest Feadships ever built had their genesis at a meeting where we started sketching to life the owner’s ideas on a blank sheet of paper,” says Marketing & Brand Director Farouk Nefzi. “The term custom has lost its value in the superyacht world: most superyachts are variations on a predesigned platform, with clients having options within set parameters. At this year’s Monaco show we have made the difference between custom and customisation crystal clear via a memorable Carte Blanche Experience.” Custom means starting every project literally with a blank page. It entails designing a bespoke superyacht that is entirely individual and unlike any other in the world. Custom should never be confused with customising – Feadship works with clients to create one-off luxury motoryachts that exclusively and uniquely reflect their character and use. CREATING LIKE IN A STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Being in front of a blank piece of paper trying to imagine what your perfect boat might look like, it is like looking in a mirror trying to find yourself. If you thought it was easy, just so you know, it's not! Unless
With the creative force of Alessandro Michele, Gucci's chief creative director, each collection is not a trip around the world but a brilliant journey of self-awakening, where fashion is an inner journey. The image at pag. 126 is taken from "THE UNSKILLED WORKER ILLUSTRATIONS" by Helen Downie. Celebrating the Unskilled Worker collection, artist Helen Downie created a special work exclusively for Gucci. Behind the playful and colorful Unskilled Worker artworks by Gucci there are curious and poignant stories. British artist Helen Downie tells the tales behind the faces, which unify her personal memories and Alessandro Michele’s designs.
you take this experience as a mere joke or pastime. I found magic in that mirror. And the incredible aspect of this project is exactly the way you feel while creating: a sort of experience where you can know much more about yourself. And fortunately Feadship offered to me a very exciting way to start the project. After having made myself comfortable at their private lounge in Monaco, in total relax and drinking a cup of coffee, I was asked to express my preferences from a selection of images, often in contrast each other. For example, do you prefer a romantic sunset at the sea or a breathtaking view in the mountains? Which kind of food do you prefer, Italian, traditional or Japanese? Do you like extreme sports or do you feel inside more like a ballett dancer? A classical architecture or a futuristic building? An Aston Martin or a classic car? I made my choices, selected the answers on a digital tablet and chosen the name of the boat (what a difficult choice, a name is a name forever!). After a couple of minutes, the software elaborated a short video where the shadow of a yacht named PamDeGlam was cruising in the middle of wonderful lanscapes, with limitless horizons, in a universe of multiple colours and in the wild nature. Wow! In a crescendo of emotions, PamDeGlam was finally unveiled to me. IT ALL STARTS WITH A BLANK SHEET OF PAPER
This is the first step for the creation of a design project with a potential client: the creation of a moodboard, the moment when you express your preferences, tastes, habits, lifestyles, passions... The character of the boat can only mirror yourself, or even in part. After all, as Feadship states, the shipyard works for me, I simply lead the game. Image in this page: one of my favourite chair. ARMCHAIR Tom´s Drag® COLLECTION
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This page: a SICIS mosaic Image at Pag. 129: detail of the painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights", Hieronymus Bosch
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elements and decorations are balanced by a kind of natural atmosphere expressed through the use of the primordial elements: wood, water, earth and fire, as these were expression of a human need - a basic instinct - to return to the essential things in life. Almost controversial in a megayacht concept, isn't it? In the dreams' world it is all so controversial, after all.
HARMONY
The preferences expressed identify your soul and tell much about yourself, and therefore anticipate the kind of boat you might like. Here the creative process begins: a couple of pencil lines to try to draw a possible design harmony. This can be simple, classic, sophisticated, complex, graceful, minimal or intricate. At this stage of the process my harmony was (already) sophisticated.
KEY-ELEMENTS AND FIRST DETAILS
Wood is used in the interiors to decorate some walls and it is alternated by panels of other natural elements and waterfalls. Mosaics adorn the interiors of the pool and they are also used in some parts of the floor, in the beach area and in the indoor areas. The pool is designed to be a social area, as much convivial as possibile, with a floor of artificial sand alternated with real beach sand covered by glass. Two telescopic lamps emerge from the floor (operated by a manual and/or remote control), ready to be also used as small tables.
VOLUMES
The second styling tool regards the volumes and the balance: how many decks? Where do you prefer the transition from bow to aft? By playing with the box volumes you can discover what appeals to you. Adding or removing a deck, or shifting the transition from bow to aft, will also affect the balance. Where do you want your visual centre of gravity? What seems to your eye to be the perfect balance? I found out that my ideal boat is a tri-deck megayacht with a transition at bow. But then, I added 7 meters in lenght to the beach club - I love large pools, I need much space in this area - so the transition was moved towards the centre to find the perfect balance (I was born under the sign of Libra, after all).
The sand, artificial and real, is a key design element with a strongly emotional function. At sunset in the beach area a bonfire can be lit to warm up the atmosphere and you can sit with your friends around it and let the sand be your natural sofa.
The pool is not limited to the external area but continues in the main salon (sliding doors separate the two different areas). The convivial atmosphere also continues thanks to the choice of the iconic sofa by Roche Bobois, the iconic Mah Jong. The pieces of the modular, colourful fabric sofas are located around the perimiter of the pool while other are informally spread throughout the wide open-space main salon. The main salon continues in the lower deck. Two staircases located on both sides of the sliding doors of the entrance to main deck lead guests in another social area, the sirene lounge, an observatory deck furnished with sofas, a bar corner, a mirror tv and the cinema lounge.
LEITMOTIV
Third step: the leitmotiv. Now the designer tries to capture the spirit of your dream yacht with just a few strokes of a pencil, in other words, he converts in a first sketch the essence of the design which comes closest to the owner's identity. Then, discussing the result, some elements will be changed, removed or added, and the first style elements will start to appear unveiling the character of the boat: majestic or more dynamic, more classical or more modern?
CRYSTALS
Crystal Caviar tiles have been chosen to decorate the exterior profile of the boat. Not only a decoration but mean to express the character of the boat: aggressive with a sort of female delicacy. The long line of decorative snaps in dark blue crystal are embedded along all the exterior line of the upper deck. The bubbles that make the surface irregular allow the snaps to reflect the sunlights in different colours.
INTERIORS ARE INSPIRED BY THE JOY OF NATURE AS A SORT OF EDEN
For the Pam De Glam megayacht concept the design theme chosen for the interiors mirrors the character of the exterior lines: it is an emphasis of aesthetic values, suggesting the idea of "the search of beauty", put in dialogue with the beauty of the nature seen as a sort of paradise lost. The luxury 7
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The famous Mah Jong sofa, a real icon among the Roche Bobois collections, interpreted by uninhibited and audacious designer Kenzo Takada. He created a unique and exceptional collection of fabrics and ceramics for Roche Bobois with his innovative style, featuring unexpected combinations of Parisian fashion with the colours and poetry of his native Japan. With his current shift toward interior design and decoration, Kenzo Takada has created a unique collection of fabrics and ceramics for Roche Bobois. These creations showcase his signature style through graphic and cultural references: mixing origins, mastering colours, and creating delicate patterns. To dress the Mah Jong modular sofa, Takada took inspiration from ancient kimonos used in the Noh Theatre, re-interpreting their patterns and colours to create fine and sophisticated harmonies symbolising the 3 times of the day: Asa (morning), Hiru (midday), Yoru (evening).
A fire pit adds just the right touch. Never forget a boat concentrates all the things you love in your life!
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The pool is given a main role in the design theme: a convivial area for relax and pleasure moments, that at the same time connects the exteriors with the interiors. Images in this page: the pools are decorated with mosaics by SICIS. In the under-the-water lounge (Sirene Lounge), guests can enjoy their time watching sea life on one side, on the other can have a look of what happens in the pool and admire the beautiful decorations in the art of mosaic.
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