Axioma

Taka Yacht Design describes itself as a company set up in Istanbul by two naval architects. Osman Tanju Kalaycıoğlu works there as a yacht designer and naval architect, and many of his credits combine the two roles. For Turquoise Yachts he was both exterior designer and naval architect of the 47.55-metre Arriva (2000). He drew the exterior lines of the 58.22-metre Petara (2005), and BOAT credits him jointly with the yard for the naval architecture of the 53.7-metre Chayka (2009). With Taka Yachts he designed the exterior and the naval architecture of the 46-metre La Passion, built by Sarp Yachts in 2016.

Sterling / Scott designs exteriors, but its work starts with the initial layout plan so that the inside and outside are coordinated. Its designer is Diana Scott, and the studio works on both custom new builds and refits. Its first refit was Reborn, which began life as the 76.61-metre Amels Boadicea of 1999. Amico & Co in Genoa completed that work in 2011. Its first new build was Axioma, delivered by Dunya Yachts in 2013. Axioma has exterior lines by Sterling Scott.

Alberto Pinto came to yachts by way of palaces. He was born in Casablanca to Argentine parents in 1945, studied at the École du Louvre in Paris, and worked first in New York, where he ran a photographic agency specialising in decoration and interior design. Over four decades his practice grew from hotels, private residences and palaces into superyachts and private jets. He died in 2012, aged 69, and the Paris house he founded continues as PINTO. Its yacht work includes the 85.6-metre Amore Vero, delivered by Oceanco in 2013 as St. Princess Olga. Two of its interiors are on yachts we list. Axioma, delivered by Dunya Yachts in 2013, has interiors by Alberto Pinto. So does Alfa Nero, the 82-metre Oceanco of 2007.