Ekinoks Interiors will be at Shop & Miles Boatshow   20-25 October .

You are welcome to visit us at stand F111.

You can find us at Hall 4 A01 .

If the German steelworkers who laid the keel of Haida G way back in 1927 were here today, surely they’d be proud. The 71.1-meter (233-foot) yacht that tasted water for the first time in 1929 is celebrating her 80th birthday. If her walls could talk, surely they’d regale visitors with some terrific tales.
Originally known as Haida, the yacht was commissioned by Max C. Fleischmann, an American who revolutionized baking with yeast. Krupp Germania, located in Kiel, Germany, built her – the same yard that built Talitha and, history buffs will note, a number of U boats. Designed by Cox & Stevens, she was intended for long scientific and leisure cruises off California. How long? Her 150 tons of fuel could permit a trip from San Francisco to Singapore – nonstop.
While she never undertook that journey, Haida did travel on her own bottom from Germany to New York, then through the Panama Canal, to her home port at the Santa Barbara Yacht Club in California. For more than a decade, Fleischmann enjoyed cruising aboard. As many yacht owners did during World War II, he gave Haida over to the war effort in 1940. The U.S. Navy converted her into a gun ship, christening her U.S.S. Argus, painting her wood grey, and removing her bowsprit, among other things.
Following the war, the vessel returned to private ownership under the name Sarina and once again graced the waters with a bowsprit. She passed through a few notable hands over the next two decades. These include Loel Guinness, a member of Parliament who also financed the purchase of Calypso for Jacques Cousteau. But people from all walks of life may remember Robert Stigwood, the famed film producer (Saturday Night Fever) and manager of music groups like the Bee Gees. Stigwood cruised frequently onboard with celebrity friends, on both sides of the Atlantic. He also commissioned the construction of a second, non-functioning funnel, which was removed years later by a subsequent owner.
A subsequent name change occurred, too, in the 1980s: Rosenkavalier, under Greek ownership. The name remained under the next two owners, a Japanese family, then another Greek, that being the late Andreas Liveras, well-known in charter circles.

The last year of the last century marked a significant milestone for the yacht: acquisition by a gentleman who had admired her in his travels many times. He ordered a top-to-bottom restoration, starting with the twin Krupp engines that were installed during her original construction. (They’re still onboard and still powering away, pushing the yacht to a 14-knot top speed.) Next, the interior was stripped down to bare metal. Whatever was in good shape was put back, and whatever wasn’t was replicated. One hundred and twenty tons of steel plating was also replaced in her hull. Even though the yacht looked every bit the classic cruiser, she was outfitted with many modern systems and conveniences. This was for both the owner’s and charter guests’ convenience.
Today she meets MCA’s regulations and the ISM code (the International Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ships and for Pollution Prevention), under the management of Ocean Independence. As to her current name, Haida G, it’s in honor of her christening under Fleischmann’s ownership and what Fleischmann wanted to honor. Haida is the same name as a tribe native to a string of islands off British Columbia, referred to as Haida Gwaii.
Happy birthday, Haida G. May you cruise to see many more.

The creations in The Fantasy collection which Jaime Hayon has designed for Lladró, mirror the perfect fusion between the artistic quality of the Spanish porcelain brand and the playful, fantasy quality the designer brings to his works. The balance between expression and function, the studied combination of Lladró’s usual themes and the magic of the unexpected that Hayon is known for, make these pieces truly original objects that, over and above their decorative potential, awaken a sense of fantasy in the beholder.

The Selexyz Dominicanen Bookstore, designed by Merkx + Girod Architecten, is an adaptive reuse of a 13th-century Dominican church in Maastricht, Netherlands.

The collection began in 1975 when French racing driver Hervé Poulain commissioned his friend Calder to paint his BMW 3.0 CSL (above). Below: BMW 3.0 CSL painted by Frank Stella, 1976.The Art Cars have been displayed around the world and are on permanent display at the BMW museum in Munich, Germany.

BMW 3.0 CSL painted by Frank Stella, 1976.

In the first years of the project, primarily racing cars were transformed into art objects – some of these even started in the famous 24-hour Le Mans race. Later the Art Car collection was extended to include series vehicles. In 1999 the American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer created the 15th BMW Art Car – she ‘described’ a BMW V12 Le Mans racing car with her word-art, calling her artwork ‘Truisms’.

BMW M1 group 4 racing version painted by Andy Warhol, 1979.

BMW M3 group A racing version painted by Ken Done, 1989.

BMW Z1 painted by A.R Penck, 1991.

Established in 1975, the BMW Art Car Collection now includes 16 works by prominent artists – including David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, Roy Litchenstein, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol – each making a unique artistic statement about the appearance and meaning of cars in our time. The Art Cars reflect the cultural and historical development of art, design and technology.It was the French racing driver Hervé Poulain who first commissioned an artist – his friend Alexander Calder – to paint his BMW racecar in the early 1970’s and this was the spark that led BMW to develop the Art Car program.

In April 2005, BMW selected Eliasson for its 16th Art Car commission, with input from an international board of curators comprising Bruce W. Ferguson, dean of Columbia University in New York; Pi Li from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Peking; Suzanne Pagé, director of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Francisco; Donna de Salvo, chief curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; and Carla Schulz-Hoffmann, assistant head curator of the Bavarian State Picture Collections.

Manned Cloud is a flying hotel proposed by French designer Jean-Marie Massaud.Whale-shaped airship, developed with French national aerospace research body ONERA, will be able to accommodate 40 guests and have a range of 5,000 km. Massaudanned Cloud will have a cruising speed of 130 km/h and a top speed of 170 km/h. Two two-deck cabin will contain amenities including a restaurant, a library, a fitness suite and a spa. There will also be a sun deck on top of the double helium-filled envelopes.