95
N
o connection is more dynamic and deep than
that between yachting and architecture. The
attraction between the two disciplines started
to deliver its effects in the twentieth century,
driven by the advancements of technique,
which led to build ever bigger and faster ships, like veritable
floating buildings. In Vers une architecture, published in
1923, Le Corbusier wrote that those moving giants were
also concrete evidence of advancing progress and industrial
products in which one should discern – not only beauty –
the harbingers of new architectures, built on alternative living
options that responded to different regulating lines, different
purposes, different measurements, different furnishings,
different lifestyles, different aesthetics, different residents.
In a time shift, now we see a reversal, in this interplay of
perspectives. For many reasons, it is yachting that flirts
with interior design and home implements. Such concepts
as ergonomics, function and performance now sit next to
new paradigms that belong more specifically to residential
Sherazade
Il divano custom made per lo Yacht
SD 112.
The custom-made sofa for the
yacht SD 112.
SPACES
