Art Basel’s ‘OVR: Miami Beach’
2-6 December
“Navigators. A journey into Sanlorenzo shipyard” – photos by Silvano Pupella
Press release 27th November – A pioneer in its field for its unique ability to open up to new creative languages influenced from art and design, Sanlorenzo continues its collaboration, as a Global partner, with Art Basel, the leading art fair for modern and contemporary art.
From December 2nd to the 6th Sanlorenzo, the world’s leading mono brand for the production of yachts over 30 meters, is participating to “OVR: Miami Beach”, the innovative digital format launched by Art Basel featuring galleries accepted to the 2020 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach.
A platform that for four days will stage online events, including talks and gallery walk-throughs, and over 2,500 exceptional works from 1900 to the present, thanks to the participation of 255 leading galleries from 30 different countries and territories. For the first time it will also host the “viewing rooms” dedicated to the partners of the fair.
Sanlorenzo presents in this occasion the digital exhibition “Navigators. A journey inside the Sanlorenzo shipyards” by photographer Silvano Pupella.
The exhibition, conceived as a real immersion into the production reality of the shipyards, presents a selection of black and white images in which Pupella, astonishing us with his spatial interpretations and give us a visual tale of the harmony between craftsmanship and technology that has over the last 60 years made Sanlorenzo a true nautical excellence.
The evocative photographic portfolio which was put together within the La Spezia shipyard, reveals how each Sanlorenzo superyacht is the result of a complex, transversal and innovative project: each boat over 40 meters long, comes to life from the hull, forged in metal like some work of art, and on through the work of skilled local artisans who take the greatest of care with every little detail, making each product unique and special, thereby assuring the desired reaction from the owner every time.
The photos of Silvano Pupella thus recount the work of these highly skilled artisans whose masterful craftsmanship makes these sophisticated elegant yachts what they are, as if they were being crafted in a Renaissance workshop.
His sophisticated black and white by introducing us at the initial production stages of the steel superyachts, is able to excite by enhancing the hidden charm and the intrinsic beauty of the unfinished products.
Images that by documenting the various phases of preparation of the metal hulls, can perfectly relate the atmosphere of this place full of technology but also of precious and irreplaceable manual skill.
The exhibition “Navigators. A journey into the Sanlorenzo shipyards “, that was born from the an idea of Mr. Massimo Perotti, Executive Chairman of Sanlorenzo, touches a new fundamental stage: after the exhibition at the Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice on the occasion of the Art Biennale 2019 and this year at Still Gallery in Milan, is today presented on a new illustrious international stage with “OVR: Miami Beach”, thanks to the collaboration started in 2018 with Art Basel with the signing of the global partnership agreement for the annual events in Hong Kong in March, Basel in June and Miami Beach in December.
The SD118 is the new yacht with a length of 35.75 meters, expanding the historic line of semi-displacement models by Sanlorenzo, yachts that offer great autonomy for the most expert lovers of life on the sea.
In a perfect balance between classic, traditional lines and a contemporary interpretation, taken to new levels of elegance thanks to the essential aesthetic of the wide-body hull, SD118 is a proposal that reflects the constant innovation and research conducted by the brand over the years.
Thanks to its novel configuration, the bow outdoor living area of SD118 is organised on two connected levels, the upper deck and the forward deck, that form a very large area for relaxation in the open air to which the owner has direct access from his cabin by means of a sliding hatch concealed below the staircase connecting the two decks that guarantees a total privacy.
The fulcrum of the innovation of SD118, however, is the upper deck, which thanks to the intuition of Bernardo Zuccon has an asymmetrical configuration previously applied only to the SL line, which guarantees greater space, comfort, flexibility of use, and a direct view of the sea from both sides, generating total indoor-outdoor connection.
While the port side features a side deck that leads seamlessly from stern to bow, along which the bulwark at the position of the living area opens to form a terrace, the starboard side is like that of a wide-body hull. In this way, the furthest deck from the sea brings guests closer to the water, its light and colors, in both visual and emotional terms.
The new model also has a revised stern zone with expanded spaces and comforts with respect to the previous models in the SD line. At anchor, this zone is transformed into a swim platform of 19 sqm thanks to large lateral hatches that open to permit diving and sunbathing au bord de l’eau.
Demonstrating Sanlorenzo’s ability to foresee the needs of clients and the widest range of requests, prior to the official launch, 4 units of the SD118 model have already been sold, including the version with interiors by Bernardo and Martina Zuccon that will be presented at the Cannes Yachting Festival 2021, and the version with a sophisticated, elegant and contemporary interpretation by Patricia Urquiola, who continues to collaborate with Sanlorenzo, boarding the new SD118 with her inimitable style balanced between rigor and irony, industrial design and crafts.
Sanlorenzo channels the best of its experience, craftsmanship and innovation into the creation of Superyachts, a category that offers yachtsmen the most authentic sense of seagoing adventure, with large and variegated on-board spaces and technologies of the latest generation for outstanding range and independence.
At the shipyard in La Spezia, with an impressive production site of over 50,000 sqm, entirely set aside for the design and construction of metal boats from 42 to 70 meters in length, the Sanlorenzo Superyacht division continues to grow, with the delivery of the second unit of the new 44 Alloy: a fast-displacement model, 44.5 meters long, entirely in aluminium, that takes the concept of livability to new heights thanks to an unprecedented layout and maximum harmony between the interiors and outdoor zones.
The fulcrum of the project is the owner’s cabin conceived as a private apartment of 154 sqm, divided into three levels with indoor and outdoor areas, a solution never seen before on a superyacht of this size.
As a conceptual update of the prize-winning 40Alloy, the new model provides surprising spaces for the yachtsman and his guests, such as the large beach club that opens on three sides for total connection with the sea, while the foredeck, with its open area, offers a wide range of usage possibilities.
A completely new project developed by the Sanlorenzo team, which has entrusted the design of the external lines and the concept development to the creativity of the studio Zuccon International Project, headed by Bernardo Zuccon, with a completely original layout unlike any other existing on the market for a yacht of this size.
The design prowess of the Sanlorenzo team and Bernardo Zuccon has enabled them to invent, design and produce a yacht with three decks and 480 GRT, with an extremely streamlined profile, offering solutions comparable to large megayachts at the same time, such as the owner’s suite on three levels.
The Superyacht shipyard in La Spezia now has 20 metal units under construction, including five in the 44 Alloy series. In recent months the division has delivered four Superyachts, a 52 meters, an Explorer of 47 meters and two 44 meters units, which with the two upcoming launches and the delivery of the 62 meters prior to the end of 2020 bear witness to the outstanding results achieved.
Sanlorenzo continues its unstoppable progress, demonstrating once again that nautical design is a live, creative world, versatile and constantly evolving, capable of generating unexpected proposals by focusing on the highest quality of life on board.
Model 44Alloy
Overall length 44.5 meters
Width 9 meters
Gross tonnage 480 GT
Hull and superstructure: Aluminium
Maximum speed: 21 knots
THE WORLD PREMIERE OF THE NEW SANLORENZO SX112 AT GENOA BOAT SHOW
Exterior Design: Zuccon International Project / Interior design: Piero Lissoni
The SX112 is the new flagship of the innovative SX crossover line, the first in the world of yachting, launched in 2017 by Sanlorenzo and result of the synthesis between the classic motor yacht with flybridge and what is now recognised as an Explorer yacht. A combination of style, flexibility and functional quality.
The SX112 is 34 meters in length and represents the consolidation of a path that began with the SX88, first, and then the SX76. Many of the normal barriers on board are eliminated, and the boat opens to the outside, in a close relationship with environment beyond.
The design of the new model has been assigned, for the external lines, to the creativity of Bernardo Zuccon, of Studio Zuccon International Project, who has concentrated on reinforcing the “family feeling” of the range, bringing out certain linguistic choices such as the balance of the volumes and the fluid forms, and to Piero Lissoni, art director of the company since 2018, for the interiors of the first unit, who has focused on the subdivision of the internal spaces, in constant dialogue with their outdoor counterparts.
In line with the concept developed for the other models, the main deck has been organized as an open space, to maximize the relationship with outdoor spaces.
The focal point of the project is the new stern zone, which undoubtedly represents the most iconic area of the yacht, a choice that generates new living perspectives based on an idea of the architect Luca Santella, creator of the concept of the innovative SX crossover line. A refinement and evolution of the design of SX88, the new model offers a spacious beach area of about 90 sqm, expandable thanks to folding terraces, composed of an internal zone with fitness area directly connected to the outside by means of large sliding glass doors that permit the owners to utilize the spaces in an unprecedented way, maximizing the indoor-outdoor relationship.
The SX76 and SX 88 are also available to view until the 6th Oct at the Genoa Boat Show. For more information or to arrange a viewing – please see: HERE or call the Sanlorenzo UK Team on: +44(0)7879 841594.