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Kelly, I am afraid you missed my point now.
This topic is about design. Not about good yachts or if Designer Yachts are better or not. Many designer yachts have been both tricky to build and difficult to maintain, maybe also less good to handle and to live on. I bet that Starcks Sigma will have many slanderers, still I think we can admire the unusual and uncompromise design she represents.
This is more about different desires. Do we like to have the most practical yacht, the most beautiful or something more like a statement in design?
Designer Yachts are pushing the limits and maybe I can describe it as a blend of art and invention. Their lines might have come up by chance, but their designers are in general very experienced. Compare with Picasso, his art was evolutionary during all of his life.
Jon Bannenberg called himself "a designer. Period." Not interior designer or exterior stylist. His background was classical music and architecture. He was a good listener but without compromise in the execution of his designs. Like many good artists.
Starkeys Lady Sheridan is a pretty yacht, a contemporary but also mainstream design sharing the lines with several other of his earlier designs. There is nothing in the styling I find new, but built by a good yard she must be considered a good investment.
I think what many designers dream of, is to make the best of all these worlds, a yacht which can make all involved in the project happy and at the same time be innovative and beautiful!
Below are three Picassos, from his Blue, Rose and Cubist periods.
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