
SUPERYACHT #521 Sep 2005
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Article by Daniele Carnevali
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ZUNINO MARMI LUXURY AND OSTENTATION
"Superyacht" is synonymous with luxury and with space.
Architects, often working closely with demanding owners, design
furnishings of all kinds, using all kinds of materials. There are
customers who are lovers of classic styles and who want to relax
surrounded by the natural colour of wood. Then there are those
who follow the latest trends, preferring minimalist layouts, with
furniture painted white or made of avant-garde materials, such as
carbon. Marble, however, available in an almost unlimited variety
of colours, is a material almost all owners appreciate. It is an
ostentatious material, connotes quality, is beautiful to look at,
and solid. In fact, marble, thanks to its strength and to the
fact that it is easy to clean, is particularly suited for
surfaces that are constantly worked, such as galley counters and
bathrooms. But it also adds beauty, when inserted with a
particular motif in furnishings, for example, or when used for
floors and ceilings. And then there are those who let their
imaginations go, embellishing furnishings with exotic mosaics.
Italy is home to some of the leading international firms
specialising in marble. One of these is Zunino Marmi, which has a
great deal of experience with superyachts, having often worked
with shipyards of the level of Mondomarine, Spertini Alalunga,
CBI Navi and Maxi Dolphin, as well as with famous companies such
as Arredamenti Porto.
Zunino Marmi, a family firm today managed by Claudio Zunino, has
been in the marble business for more than 130 years. This
experience is a guarantee of its ability to choose the best raw
materials, to do flawless work and to collaborate productively
with designers and architects. The firm not only supplies
materials but also does onboard installation. In addition to all
kinds of marble, it offers granite, onyx, sodalite, quartzite,
slate and other fine materials, all refined using numerical-
control centres. This is a system, which, on the basis of data in
the software and a water-jet cutting machine, is able to work on
any type of material, from marble to stainless steel, from glass
to plastic. It uses sophisticated CAD-CAM software compatible
with the most widely-used technical design programs on the
market, thus ensuring complex, 100% accurate work. The final
product is impeccable, partly because the cutting technology,
using water, causes no thermal changes to the edges of the
material. Each piece is in any case hand-finished by the firm's
staff before being installed. The "light marble" offered by
Zunino Marmi is an ideal solution for large yachts since the
result, combined with vacuum technology and aluminium, to carbon-
fibre or ultra-light resin honeycomb, is indistinguishable from
solid marble and yet is lighter and stronger.
For more information: Zunino Marmi, Via Piacenza 3r, 16137
Genoa; Tel.: +39 0108392526/0108 391477; Fax: +39 0108 70040; Web
site: www.zuninomarmi.it; E-mail: info@zuninomarmi.it.
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