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KENSHO took first place in the "over 40 meter" category at the 2023 Yacht & Aviation Awards. The details of Kensho's build along with the key companies and designer responsible for her graceful elegance, are below. but for the moment, let's let the below images do the talking. It's an amazing boat from every angle, inside and out! Congratulations to The Italian Sea Group and everyone else involved!
This time looking across Kensho's bow but no ordinary bow. Inverted bows are popular without question these days but that beautiful undercut a meter or so above the water line, really makes this one special.
There are ceilings and there are ceilings but this one is a show stopper created with layers that mimic a topographical map. Whatever the designer had in mind....it works! There is no grander style for an owners suite featuring a spectacular view forward across the bow.
This LOUNGE separating two staterooms is a nod to the designers classic modern sensitivities. It's beautifully put together with graceful lines and nothing superfluous. Where's my favorite book?
The upper aft deck is traditionally where owners and guests like to spend early evenings aboard large yachts...call it the proverbial "cocktail hour". There's no better place and Kensho's designers have treated the time honored tradition with great respect. The quintessential bar flanks the port side while inviting serpentine lounging divans tuck in at the starboard side. The ceiling cove paints a warm festive glow over the whole area.
Kensho is a showboat by anyone's standards, but in 2023 she is firmly in the spotlight and taking awards.
KENSHO was this year's first place winner in the "over 40 meter" class at the International Yacht & Aviation Awards.
Naval Architecture: The Italian Sea Group, Azure Yacht Design & Naval Architecture
Interior Design: Jouin Manku
Shipyard: The Italian Sea Group
Lighting Designer: Voyons Voir
Owner’s Architecture, Design & Engineering Consultant: Archineers Berlin
Interior Design Consulting: Trappmann Consulting SLU
Photography: Giuliano Sargentini, Christopher Scholey
Kenshō redefines the bounds of space and luxury on superyachts, symbolising something new, personal, and revolutionary. Kenshō flows. She is an owner-driven project that redefines the spatial constraints, distribution and luxury of a superyacht. Technical challenges are answered with feasible but poetic solutions.
Coherent and remarkable, Kenshō’s identity is an invitation to experience yachting differently. She was designed for rich sensory sea encounters, fine art and equally artful craftsmanship that touches every moment of the Kenshō experience. Nature-inspired smooth and organic shapes and finishes are a consistent motif throughout the yacht, giving Kenshō a unique personality. Enjoy more of the horizon while on board thanks to the lowered bulwarks, floor-to-ceiling glass, and low-profile custom-built external furnishings.
Inspired by nature, noble materials are artfully transformed into forms that are rounded and organic. From her hardscape to her soft touch interior, the narrative is coherent, seamless and contemporary. Teak, Marble, Onyx, Silk, Wool, Bronze and Glass, a diverse material vocabulary deployed in a deeply personal and poetic expression. The result is a new yacht born of history, tradition, values, myths, and stories. M/Y Kenshō is equipped with a state-of-the-art “Diesel-Electric” propulsion system, with permanent magnet electrical motors, granting high efficiency and great power, with limited volume.
The design has been developed giving important weight to the environmental perspective, not only in the respect of the “ECO” notation of the Classification Body, supplying the propulsion system with five variable speed generators, all equipped with an antiparticle system to optimise consumption at every speed and reduce emissions in the atmosphere. The hull has been developed by minimising resistance through the employment of azimuthal propulsion and retractable stabiliser fins.
