http://www.boatinternational.com | June 2017 The prevalence of artworks adorning the walls meant the lighting plan had to be considered right from the first design sketchesA large, round dining table
milled from titanium takes
pride of place under the
flybridge overhangwith the potential to store excess power in a
137kWh lithium polymer battery pack that
provides two to three hours of silent operation
capability, according to Akgül.
Repositioning the mizzen mast also improves
the flow of the main and flybridge deck layouts as
it shifts the bottom of the mizzen spar away from
the aft glass doors of the main saloon, allowing a
large, round dining table to take pride of place
under the flybridge overhang. The table is milled
from titanium, its base looking like a geared drum
and its top scribing a rose petal pattern matched
in the overhead – a nod to Duker’s estate, Rosehill,
near Albany, New York.
In fact, nearly all the exposed metal on the boat
is bead-blasted titanium or a smoky bronze. “We
chose titanium for the way it looks against the
natural American ash millwork, and because the
owner wanted something fresh and different,”
says Peter Hawrylewicz of PHDesign. Although
this Miami-based architect and designer is new
to yacht design, Sybaris is his 12th project for
Duker. Yet she didn’t start out as his project.
“We knew he was interviewing designers and,
because it was a yacht, we didn’t consider that
he would consider us. One night he took my
partner and me to dinner and asked what we
thought about taking on the project. It was a big
surprise. The interior company, Genesis
Yachtline, had already been given the contract forthe joinery and built-ins,” Hawrylewicz recalls.
“Knowing how long Bill had been thinking of this
boat was daunting.”
The brief was fairly simple: a neutral path.
“Even though we didn’t know all the works of
art yet, we knew the interior would be lavished
with art from the owner’s contemporary
collection and this set the theme,” said the
architect. “That also ramped up the pressure
on developing the lighting plan. We began
developing that plan from the first sketches,”
Hawrylewicz says, “selecting the amount and
type of lighting we wanted first.”
Aside from major statement fixtures such as
chandeliers and sconces, which were designed
by Lindsey Adelman, Hawrylewicz developed
the fixtures such as the wall washers and down
lights that fit in architectural recesses next to
each door. By directing light away from the
intersection of surfaces butting against walls
or ceilings, for example, and by leaving tiny gaps
instead, he’s created a sensation of even more
space, as if there is something behind the gap that
you can’t see.
“The team at Perini was an amazing mentor to
us,” says Ken Lieber of PHDesign. Interestingly,
it was Genesis Yachtline’s first Perini project
as well. All furniture and surfaces were built
offsite and finished before being taken to the
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