7 December 2008 | Posted inBlog News & Updates
Is it a motor yacht or a moving sculpture?
Art collector Dakis Joannou has enlisted Jeff Koons and a crew of contemporary artists to create the most original sight on the seas.
Anyone cruising the Aegean should be warned that fantastically colorful, wildly eccentric apparition cutting across your bow is not a mirage. It’s Guilty, Dakis Joannou’s new boat.Koons and the boat’s interior designer, Ivana Porfiri, broke free of classic nautical architecture and gave birth to what their delighted patron calls “a totally magical object.” The exterior paint was inspired by Roy Lichtenstein’s mermaid for the America’s Cup racing boat competition that is now become a permanent collection at Storm King,
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surely this was inspired by the razzle dazzle style of camouflage…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage
with a nod to Lichtenstein in the dot screen element?
sorry just a pedant
This yacht should be in my hometown of Miami! Maybe on a dock designed by Britto.