Highlights - Marbella Luxury Real Estate Magazine 2019

Highlights
Kirsten Schwalgien design for a Barcelona apartment
air commissions for one client included
three properties in London and Miami,
two yachts (a 65m and 46m Benetti) and a
Gulfstream G65 jet. Common features in
the London properties and yachts included
lacquered rosewood veneers, custom-made
walling and exotic inlays. “We used classic
materials in new ways, crafting themes
to each property and, above all, creating
stunning spaces to entertain and live for an
international, multi-generation family,” says
Fontanella.
“We were looking to create the serenity that comes with connection by limiting colour
tones and materials and using details that pick up and connect the areas of the yacht
as you walk through,” says Jim Dixon, Director, Yachts and Aviation at Winch Design
“OUR JOB is to ensure that all
the PRACTICAL ELEMENTS
are TAKEN CARE OF.”
The way the wealthy use their “homes”,
including boats and planes, is changing, points
out Andrew Winch of Winch Design, who is
one of the few superyacht designers to have
made the transition the other way, into jets
and architecture. “They now often choose to
spend months at a time on their yachts and
it’s not enough to simply have all the facilities
available to them on sea as they would on
land. It must also feel like home. It is here
that the translation of yacht design to home
design, and vice versa, begins,” says Winch,
who is seeing a trend towards open-plan rooms
without corridors on yachts, to echo people’s
on-land homes.
Having this 360-degree design synergy
isn’t simply a case of the super-rich wanting
to replicate every last detail of their bricks and
mortar properties on water, though. It’s about
enjoying a “seamless living experience,” says
Karen Howes, founder of design studio Taylor
Howes, who will often design a property for
a “super busy” client, only to see them come
back and ask her to tackle their yacht and new
plane too.
“All of our high net worth clients have
access to this 360 degree lifestyle and we are
seeing a merging of all of their disciplines,” says
Howes. “They want their Private Family Office
to be more like their home, their home to have
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