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THE IMPORTANCE OF PROPORTIONS Sleek yachts with carefullywrought shapes and refined, complex details are what the Team for Design studio, founded by the Venetian Enrico Gobbi, is all about. Together with Rossinavi it recently presented the Phantom 62, a fast, sporty yacht concept. Lots of glass on board with smoothly-integrating interior and exterior spaces
by Samuela Urbini
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acht design and architecture are in an increasingly tight embrace in the superyacht world, especially when the designer is also an architect – like Enrico Gobbi, the founder of the Team for Design studio in Venice, where the architect was born and brought up,
surrounded by incredible beauty. He graduated in architecture here, but the subject of his thesis was a ship. This was followed by a specialisation in yacht design in the USA and his first significant work experience with the Nuvolari Lenard studio. “Today we have the good fortune to be able to handle complete projects, where we create exteriors and interiors”, he says. “The way we manage design is still the same, although it’s improved over the years. Our yachts are always sleek, and it’s important to us that the proportions can be seen. Above all, the yacht should be beautiful. Then as you get closer the refined, complex details emerge. All of these are created hand-in-hand with the owner or the yard”. And this exactly describes that latest project completed for Rossinavi, a yard that
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Team for Design has a long, fruitful relationship with.
“Now, influenced by market demand, we’ve moved away
Phantom 62 metres is a yacht with a sporty personality,
from that a little, because people prefer much larger,
hence the sinuous lines and taut curves, not very rounded
architectural windows like those of a large villa. Long
on the decks, which recall a jet plane’s fins and create the
ribbon-like shapes that open up lovely views and allow
impression of speed even when the yacht is stationary.
natural light to flood the interiors”. This is very obvious
When you design an aeroplane the wings aren’t
on Phantom 62, which also features other innovations
exaggerated because their shape is dictated by the need
like the super-tapered stern with a Jacuzzi very near the
to fly, and on this yacht, too, the shapes are determined
water, creating a harmonious descent to the sea.
by nature. Phantom 62 is a compromise between sport,
Other architectural elements are the balconies with
comfort and elegant details. “This yacht is a large holiday
extensive windows. The bow windows also appear in
home”, Gobbi continues, “So the interiors feature large
the owner’s cabin, for example, creating marvellous views
lounges that open up as much as possible to the outside.
of the exterior seascape as they curve out over the water.
We created large decks to be read as a single, sweeping
Finally, the large, grey, upside-down L structure on the
space where the style of the interiors can extend to the
fly deck, sportier than a classic roll bar. It has both an
outdoor areas”. Gobbi’s design hallmark is his use of
aesthetic and practical function, giving the yacht a gutsy
geometrically-shaped windows inspired by car design.
look and hiding services like the shower and storage
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The swimming pool close to the sea features on the stern (above), which slopes down to the water, and the large villastyle architectural windows (below) open the lounge to the outside. The unusual rounded shapes curving out from the hull (to side) are the bow windows of the owner’s suite, giving the impression of being on the sea
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The elegant, contemporary interiors are created with a skilful use of materials that links the spaces, like the sleeping area and the bathroom in the owner’s suite proposed by Team for Design in the Phantom 62 concept
areas.
Now Enrico Gobbi and his
valuable team - which he unfailingly describes as an orchestra of minds of which he is the conductor - are working on very large 80-metre craft, because the market is currently trending more towards megayachts. There are also three vessels under construction for Rossinavi, one 70 metres and two 50 metres long.
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