Welcome to the special “20th Anniversary” section of Top Yacht Design. Here we present to you, day by day, the best stories, yachts, characters we have covered in these 20 years of Top Yacht Design, from 2006 to the present day.
Taken from Top Yacht Design no. 12/2017 pp. 87/93
Oscar 3, a star is born!
The Mylius 65 Flush Deck – a star in the making.
“Which element do I find most satisfying? That is a very difficult question to answer because I look at the overall result,” explains Alberto Simeone, architect, yacht designer, technical director and co-founder, in 2003, of the Mylius yard. “When I am designing a boat, I take an integrated approach in which all the various components, specialisations, subsystems – from the hull lines to the sail plan, deck arrangement, propulsion, plant, even the concept itselfare an interconnected part of a larger design which has its own life independent of colour and details. So the result is no longer mine but belongs to the idea. That has been the case with all my boats, Oscar 3 included.”
Simeone is referring to the first Mylius 65 Flush Deck. Oscar 3 was the result of what he dubs “a happy contamination”. The fruit of a joint effort with her owner, architect Aldo Parisotto, the brain behind the hugely respected Parisotto + Formenton Architetti studio which renovated Milan’s historic Palazzo Ricordi, the oldest building in the world to be awarded the top-ranking green EED Core & Shell certification. “Aldo Parisotto,” continues Simeone, “already owned a Mylius 50, Oscar 2, splashed in 2013. He had liked the very clean, linear, light-coloured interiors which won the Mylius 19E95 the 2011 Nautical Design Award. Characteristics shared by our entire line, however. But even with Oscar 2, our working relationship and explorations produced some interesting developments that appeared in later craft. One of those later craft being, naturally enough, Oscar 3 which does stand out from the rest of the yard’s output despite retaining the signature “Mylius style” combined with a refined bespoke owner-oriented interior tailoring and attention to detail. The new yacht also provided an opportunity for two professionals at the top of their game to engage in some serious comparing of creative notes.
“It was a wonderful experience,” explains Simeone. “The interior concept retained the same qualities and arrangements- absolutely fundamental in boats like the Mylius’s which are absolutely integrated in terms of architecture, internal structure and layout.” A master suite occupying the entire area forward of the mast, a large living space with dinette and settee, a galley to port of the stairs leading down from the central cockpit, the chart area and a crew cabin to starboard. Plus two two-berth guest cabins aft into the bargain. These are the mainstays of Oscar 3’s light-filled interiors which centre around an interplay of textures and colours, most notably smoked eucalyptus, open-pore oak and leather. The latter is used not just for the seating but also dominates the entrance corridor to the master suite and, in a nod to old-fashioned travel trunks, the closet. A new take that goes well beyond colour alone in this second Mylius for Aldo Parisotto whose previous Oscar 2 was dominated by white-lacquered composite, limed teak and polished stain-less steel.
That said, the same signature Mylius harmony and balance is still clearly in evidence. “There is a sense of extreme balance between the interior and exterior spaces,” concludes Alberto Simeone, “but also of a direct connection between those two elements and spaces. The choice of the two large sofas in the dinette with its large entrance through the cockpit, for instance, its central position, expansive sea views – all this creates a genuine symbiosis between interior and exterior.
What is astonishing is that this has been achieved on a yacht that looks so low and sleek on the water with what I’d call an aggressive racer-like profile, yet inside delivers spaces that are quite unique in more than just dimensions.”
by Emilio Martinelli
