“I want to show you my favorite place,” superyacht designer Giorgio Cassetta says as we climb the stairs to the sky lounge aboard the Ocean Alexander 35 Puro.
With wide windows and wood soles reminiscent of the teak decks outside, the room is barefoot-elegant. Its centerpiece is a bar that is as much a sculpture as a service area, opposite a seating area and custom-made coffee table by Poltrona Frau in Italy. This is a level of luxury rarely seen on a 113-footer. Full-glass walls separate the sky lounge from the wheelhouse, with different degrees of opacity to suit the privacy preferences of the captain and guests.
There’s another reason this area aboard Cassetta’s first Ocean Alexander project makes him so proud. “She’s the only boat in her size in probably 15 years to have an upper-deck walk-around layout,” he says.
Full-beam bridge decks have been the default ever since maximizing volume became a priority to buyers, builders and designers. Yet between the yacht’s 24-foot beam and the creativity of Cassetta’s studio, the side decks neither encroach on the sky lounge nor sacrifice safe access. The trick is inboard-angled glass, just enough at shoulder height to lend the sense of more freedom of movement.
But there’s more…
