YACHTS & YACHTING 43 contract to the shipyard, or even as a consultant to well-known brands,” explains Vickers.“ But in each instance, from concept to completion, the conversations are inspiring.”
Each project begins with Discovery, where client and studio explore the client’ s passions and priorities. Hand-drawn sketches give the ideas their first shape. Lifelike 3D visuals and meticulous technical drawings follow, and the team oversees the work on site. Every space is styled and staged before handover. The approach is the same whether the project is a 2,000m ² private villa or a jet cabin, where every kilogram and centimetre counts.
The results are deeply personal. On one project, a client’ s beloved Porsche 356 informed everything from the parquet, cut to match the width of the car’ s tyres, to the automotive-style rivets on the bar. Another interior was built around a collection of art and antiquities, with joinery proportioned to the Golden Ratio.
Over the years, the studio’ s work has been widely recognised, including five World Superyacht Awards since 2018. The most recent came this year, when the 57m Solace was named Best Refit. Originally built by Feadship, Solace was transformed at Pendennis Shipyard, nearly twenty years after John first worked on her.“ Along with the engineering overhaul and exterior repaint, this refit encompassed a full interior refresh for the guest and owner spaces, the addition of a supernumerary cabin on the bridge deck, a major stern extension, and a reimagined beach club with an integrated sauna,” he says.
The studio is busy. It recently attended the relaunch of the 57m Oui Oui after her refit at Abeking & Rasmussen, for which it designed the interior and exterior areas. It has also just launched designs for the interior of the 90m yacht Pure, and delivered the 36m My Lady for Mulder, the Dutch yard behind the studio’ s very first commission. Next spring will bring a 45m from Alia Yachts and a 44m from Cantiere delle Marche.
“ Launch day is always special,” says Vickers.“ You’ ve seen the idea take form, the details gain purpose, and then there it is, a true reflection of its owner.”
For those seeking creativity with substance and design guided by experience, Vickers Studio offers a singular voice, at sea, at home and in the air.
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