Boat International – June 2017

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of Sybaris

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inside-sybaris

“My goal at the end of the day was to create a yacht that

is comfortable, beautiful and perhaps even memorable”

The saloon is open plan with no structural supports to block the views and no built-in cabinets. The matt titanium overheads softly reflect and diffuse the light

light – and in this case an epic amount of it – is

ushered below to the accommodation lobby,

from where all the cabins are entered through

very hip titanium-clad submarine doors, with the

logo of the bull of Sybaris in the centre of the

opening mechanism.

Enormous sheets of laminated tempered glass

form the “walls” of the stair column. Hawrylewicz

had originally drawn them as a single piece, but

no sources yet exist for tempering such large

panels of glass. Each of the staircase walls weighs

600 kilograms and they are elastically anchored

to the decks above and below. Massive floating

oak steps, suspended from the glass with

titanium pins, usher guests below.

There are six cabins on the lower deck,

including a master suite that takes advantage of

the yacht’s full 13 metre beam to create a space to

spoil the owner in surroundings of American ash.

An office area is to starboard with the king-sized

bed offset to port. Lindsey Adelman bronze and

porcelain sconces above the bed flank an art

feature of layers of wood relief that looks a bit

topographical. The element was a deliberate

contrast to the machined look of many of the

pieces in the room and the titanium overhead.

Four pieces of contemporary art dominate the

room, which Duker refers to as the poetic centre

of the boat. Colourful pieces by Roberto Matta,

Bäast and Rafa Macarrón contrast with the

simple décor while Invisible Domain by Mars-1

opposite his desk seems particularly appropriate.

The bed surround showcases another of the

design features in the boat, the mortise and tenon

style joinery details that are left exposed. It

continues in the full-beam his and hers

bathrooms, with their simple palette of ash, stone

and titanium. “The simpler the palette, the larger

the space,” shares Hawrylewicz. “My goal at the

end of the day was to create a yacht that is

comfortable, beautiful and perhaps even

memorable.” Or, as the owner wrote in a poem he

dashed off on his iPhone thanking his designer:

The ability to conceive the idea

To place it in the spot exactly where

To light it as if it were in a dream

And make it all so simple seem B

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