THE CURATED EDITION.
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Alberto Mancini’s exterior and Yachtique’s interior meet at a retractable terrace. The design question is how a room aboard a yacht relates to the water.
A terrace changes more than the size of a room. It changes where that room appears to end. Azimut’s Grande 25M makes this relationship adjustable through a retractable lateral terrace, extending the social space towards the water.
The May 2025 account connected the project’s Italian design with production in Itajaí. That international relationship matters more editorially than treating the yacht as a local launch alone: the object brings design authorship, manufacturing and a specific way of inhabiting the sea into the same conversation.
The manufacturer credits Alberto Mancini with the exterior and Yachtique with the interior. Its research and development department is responsible for the hull design. Those are distinct contributions, not interchangeable descriptions of a single designer’s work.
The published specification gives a maximum length of 25.62 metres and a beam of 6.06 metres. Four guest cabins sit alongside crew accommodation, with capacity listed for eight guests and three crew. These figures describe the model, not the conditions of a particular charter.
The terrace is the clearest architectural device. Instead of accepting the side of the boat as an unchanging edge, it creates another place from which to sit, stand and look across the water.
The interior presentation combined linen, leather, Rain Forest Brown marble and Alpi Santos wood in the interior palette. Living and dining were brought into a closer relationship on the main deck, with panoramic glazing giving the sea a continuing place in the composition.
That combination is useful to read as a sequence of surfaces. Upholstery receives the body; stone and wood define furniture; glass changes the apparent depth of the room. An opening terrace adds an outdoor position to that sequence.
It does not follow that every configuration or delivered yacht has an identical finish. A named material in a presentation should be checked against the specification of the actual vessel under consideration.
A plan and a manufacturer’s description can establish arrangement and authorship. They cannot establish how a passenger experiences motion, noise or service in a particular sea state. Arrangement and performance remain different questions.
Likewise, a retractable space has operating conditions. Its use should be understood through the vessel’s documentation and crew instructions, not through an assumption that every exterior area is usable at every moment.
The Grande 25M’s strongest idea is therefore specific rather than sweeping: a moving boundary gives a marine interior another relationship with its surroundings. The interest lies in the transition between furniture, glazed room and open terrace.
The presentation described a flybridge with space for a bar, social seating and an optional whirlpool. It offers a different relationship with the horizon from the main-deck terrace: height changes the view, while the moving side platform brings the social area closer to the water. The exact arrangement belongs to the specification of an individual yacht.
Azimut · Grande 25M specification · Consult the manufacturer for the configuration and documentation of an individual yacht.
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