SUPERYACHT #10
Autumn 2006
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Daniele Carnevali
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AZIMUT'S YACHTS
STYLING DEPARTMENT
Shipyards are turning more and more often to their own design
departments for solutions despite the availability of a great
number of designers of international stature.
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For further information: Azimut Yachts; via M. L. King 9/11;
10051 Avigliana (TO); tel. 011 93161; fax 011 9367270; web page:
www.azimutyachts.net.
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It is felt that
having an internal styling department is tantamount to reducing
production costs and of optimizing human resources.
Among the
shipyards that have their own design department, there is a
renowned Italian name that of Azimut Yachts whose technical
office is based at their motor yacht division on their premises
in Viareggio, where Azimut builds yachts over 68'. The
technical department is currently staffed by 14 members but is
expected to grow to twenty in the near future. The technical
office includes the styling department which is made up of
three architects and an engineer. In Azimut Yachts case, the
styling department is responsible for the assembly of the
interiors and its furnishing in collaboration with Galeazzi's
architects office who is in turn responsible for designing them
on behalf of the Italian shipyard. The styling department is
furthermore responsible for all those parts inherent to the
yachts' construction that are handed out to other companies. The
technical department is instead in charge of studying the
streamlines, the structures and systems on board as well as
following the completion of the exteriors designed and conceived
by architect Stefano Righini, author of Azimut Yachts' exterior
design. The technical office became an autonomous division back
in 2004 and its objective is to unequivocally highlight the
characteristic features of the boats built by the yard and to
support the production lines both in terms of quality and speed
of reaction. Every detail is planned by the styling department
of the motor yacht division through sophisticated 3D software
and by comparing data with the motor cruiser division, in
Avigliana, where Azimut builds it boats under 68'. The purpose
of the exercise is to share ideas and synergies. The yachts
developed by the styling department in conjunction to Carlo
Galeazzi's architects office, are Azimut's following models:
75,85,105 and 116'. The styling department also gave proof of
its own versatility in producing its own concepts over a project
presented by Carlo Galeazzi regarding the recent restyling of
the interiors of the "Lenonardo" 98 model.
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