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TOP TO BOTTOM: The elevator in the gym has a fun exterior
treatment of blue bubbles; The sky lounge dining table
outfitted with Walter Knoll dining chairs; Breaking the blue
rule with a touch of red and gray.outdoor forward-facing spa pool. Cohen is a self-
proclaimed fitness nut.
Perhaps most remarkable about Seasense’s con-
struction is that Cohen kept it a secret, including from
his own children. “The big reveal,” he says, came last
summer at Club 55 in St. Tropez, where he casually
told his family, “Let’s take a boat ride out to the har-
bor.” The restaurant tender shuttled them to Seasense.
Cohen invited his three sons to step aboard, and that
was the start of their two-week summer cruise.
The Cohens’ middle son need not have lamented
about the worst day of his life when he had to leave
the yacht. Many more family cruises are planned for
this winter in the Caribbean and next summer in the
Mediterranean.For more information: benettiyachts.itMATERIALS AND
FURNISHINGS
All wood veneers aboard
Seasense are aniline-dyed
from Italy. They come in
blue, silver-gray and red, plus
pure white to tie the décor
together. Woods used include
eucalyptus, Tanganyika frisée,
figured ash, sycamore burl,
caleidolegno, pamaand koto.
Some of the marble, granite
and quartzite stones are azul
macaubus, bianco ondulare
and Antarctica, with backlit
pilasters of white quartz.
Furniture is sourced from
designers Holly Hunt and
Walter Knoll, and from the
Thomas Lavin collection.
Carpeting is by Tai Ping,
and the staterooms have
accents by Ralph Lauren
Home and Missoni. Large,
backdrop artworks in the
sky lounge and master suite
are by French photographer
and artist Valérie Belin.
Numerous other contempo-
rary and modern artists such
as Ellsworth Kelly and Sol
LeWitt are also represented
aboard. —J.B.