Luxury at Sea

Kenshō – The Ferrari of the seas

We recently worked on a fantastic yacht with amazing interior architecture Jouin Manku. The exceptional 75-metre mega yacht Kenshō brings together the highlights of residential and marine design to create a new definition of life at sea. This was the studio’s first maritime project, and quite soon proved itself to be an exceptional one.

It's notable for its striking exterior and outstanding interior, which contributed to it winning multiple awards.

“For us, Jouin Manku, light is life. It’s really important in a project, it’s primordial, half of the ambience of a room,” Mr. Manku said. “Light is about ambience and creating a character in a space. It can also play a secondary role, which goes beyond light, part of the magic of Preciosa, which is light and glass, and the dance between the two things.”

“It was a joy to work with the Jouin Manku design team with their new take on yacht design,” he said. “In addition to the hurricane lamp-inspired lighting, we also created lovely pieces for the staterooms, owner’s bedroom and bathroom, and special lighting for cabinet shelves. All meeting the unique requirements of lighting onboard a ship.”

“Every light installation goes through rigorous testing, including our ‘silent block’ technology to ensure tremble-free lights and a vibration test to verify the quality of construction during production,” Mr. Radan Panáček, Research & Development Officer explained. "We offer metal parts with a specialized surface finish, exclusively mixed to withstand harsh maritime conditions and we are testing the durability of materials in a salty chamber to ensure our lighting fixtures can withstand any sea route."

With production all done entirely in-house, all potential issues are fixed before leaving our facility. This means your lighting design is ready to sail upon installation and completion.

Experience matters

“You have to work with people who know how to marry technical abilities and poetic capacities,” Mr. Manku said. “And this is the work that we've done together, trying to make something that was technically very, very challenging, but at the same time, when you come up to it, it is just like a warm cup of coffee in front of a fireplace. On a day when it's snowing, its effect is 3,000 percent emotional.”