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The Art of Sailing
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[ CREATIVE MINDS: ALBERTO MANCINI ]
FUNCTIONAL,
SUCCESSFUL IDEAS
THAT GIVE LIFE TO A DREAM by Désirée Sormani
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Alberto Mancini from Trieste, born in 1978, with the model of the S10, the Open he designed in his first collaboration with Azimut, embodying the experience he gained over time
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hen I was a child I used to go sailing with my parents,
his trump cards, enabling him to gain some very useful experience.
but instead of dreaming of being a sail yachtsman, I
After graduating, in 2000 Mancini applied to Officina Italiana
always thought about how I could make our ketch more
Design, and here he worked on big projects like Aquariva’s Riva 33’
comfortable and more beautiful, and how to modify its escape
and the 44’ Rivarama. Most importantly, he met Mauro Micheli.
routes. Then, at the classical high school, instead of concentrating
“That was an incredible experience. Micheli taught me the beauty
on Latin and Greek I would sketch cars and motoryachts. They took
of proportion, the result of his artistic training”. Then he sent his
shape in an instant, it came easily to me. There was no doubt about
CV to Ken Freivok, who called him up shortly afterwards. “He
the road I should follow. A family friend, Andrea Zagato (of the
was impressed by the fact that I was working with Riva at such a
famous coachbuilders – ed) advised me to move to Turin to study
young age. He set me to work on Maltese Falcon to design elements
in the home of car design. I attended the IED design and fashion
evoking car design. This experience enabled me to get to know
school, rubbing shoulders with all those kids wanting to become
the megayacht concept”. Returning to Italy – Venice, to be exact
the future Giorgetto Giugiaro or Pininfarina. At the time not many
– he joined Nuvolari Lenard as a designer, and here he met his
had a passion for yacht design, and I was advised to make the most
colleague Enrico Gobbi, and in 2006 they opened Team for Design,
of my maritime origins and transfer the car design concepts I’d
giving rise to the new Dominator line, including the Dominator
learnt there into the nautical field. As a result I decided that my
780S, which won a design award. Shortly afterwards, in 2009, he
thesis would have to be a yacht. Thus I asked the Nuvolari Lenard
opened his own studio and the AM mark appeared on a number
studio if they could assist me. I turned up in front of the degree
of yachts - Monokini Baglietto (winner of the Compasso d’Oro in
panel with a model of a yacht, the 60’ Cantieri di Sarnico, and my
2016), a series for Magnum Marine, the Otam 100 and large steel
adventure began”. Alberto Mancini was an enterprising youngster
and aluminium designs with Mangusta, where Mancini handled
who knew exactly where he was going. These qualities were perhaps
interior and exterior design for the Ocean series (already on its
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The S10’s design philosophy is linked to a concept of total on board liveability. It is based on three basic images – a classic megasailer where the slightly lowered central cockpit is the fulcrum of social life, a refined seagoing villa with several terrace levels gradually descending to the surface of the sea, and the car design concept, a source of stylistic inspiration
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A totally uncluttered flush deck is the unusual solution, providing a raised view over the sea. The staircase up to the flybridge is also an intriguing feature, becoming an important design element in carbon fibre, almost a vertebral column
fourth example) and the Gran Sport line (the most recent of these, the 54 metre Gran Sport, is the flagship of the Overmarine Mangusta fleet). Mancini now works in Montecarlo where he designed his first Azimut, the S10, a new open yacht concept. “They asked me to amaze them, so I rejigged the classic layout of a 100-foot open. I put a flybridge on an open design, based the idea of a central vertebral column (the staircase), creating a double-L of sofas below the stairs and aft of a space to be used as desired, and allowing the stern to descend onto the surface of the sea, opening up platform of over 10 square metres, like in a villa. In this way we’ve created three levels, where the central staircase descends from a flybridge of over 25 square metres, and beneath this is a box shape where a series of sliding doors (one to the stern and one to the bow) creates a living area with seamless links to the forward helm station and the aft cockpit – this is laid out on two levels, one further forward overlooking the sea-level beach club, the other with a more sheltered area one level down, as it would be on a megasailer, with two L-shaped sofas. The new open displays a gutsy, in-your-face appeal characteristic of car design but inspires dreams like a 1920s J-class sail yacht, a world that is still a source of inspiration for Mancini, squaring the circle but also returning to his roots. “My dream is to design a megasailer and revisit a childhood love. Powering down the engines and making way under sail alone – nothing else can offer this kind of style, class and above all, emotion.”
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