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THE GODDESS STEVE JOBS WORSHIPPED
Bellissimo! The Ferrari 250 GTO
By Wessel Stoltz
Is that an iPad as a roof? The Venus sets sail
A hairbreadth shorter than 80m, this superyacht is not what yacht-aficionados would
call conventional. But conventional was never
what you were going to get if you threw into
the melting pot Steve Jobs and our designer of
the month, Philippe Starck...
By Wessel Stoltz
In 2007 the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs
commissioned one of the most respected European designers of the 20th century to build him
a boat, and being given carte blanche, Starck
took full advantage of his creative prowess.
The designer reportedly flew out to Ameri-
less than seven 27-inch iMacs and boasts room
enough for twelve people. The end result really
was a labour of love, a Venus.
“This boat is definitely one of the best boats
ever made. It’s not a chair, it’s not a watch, it’s
For both Starck and Jobs the philosophy of not a bag, it is a boat, a revolution that is also a
minimalism was a given when it came to the real boat.” said Starck about his design.
design of the yacht. This however materialized
in a very unusual design, with a very straight Jobs sadly never got to see this project take to
bow and gently sloping stern – a profile dom- the water as it was completed only a year after
inated by the horizontal lines of its waterline, his death in 2011.
windows (at three metres tall), deck, and cabin
roof. Inside, the mega-yacht is controlled by no
Or even just a
bicycle...
But IKEA screwed me
over and now I get
stepped on everyday.
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All I ever wanted
to be was part of
an aeroplane
ca every five or six weeks to have an intense
twelve-hour brainstorm with the former Apple
CEO where they would spend the time poring
over design details millimeter by millimeter.
This lasted for nearly five years.