English:
Wally Hermes Yacht
Hermes best known for it’s 5000 Euros Jackie Kennedy handbags, and silk scarves announced in September 2009, that they were branching out into another luxury line , the super yachts.
The stylish French company was supposed to teamed up with the Monaco based ship builder Wally to create the WHY 58 X 38 a mega yachts that was supposed to cost around 100 million Euros .
Naval Architect Mauro Sculli was supposed to be in charge.
Luca Bassini, founder of design company Wally said at that time, “the best part of this project is the stern, it is not like an usual stern of boat, it’s more like the real beach of an Island, protected from the wind and from the waves.
The joint venture launched for this project in 2008, is sinking, as Hermes announced recently, that they are giving up with the project.
It seems that Wally will go alone for a smaller Wally 37 meters by 24 meters instead of 58 X 38 .
With The revolution in technology , now owners can stay in touch with their businesses from anywhere in the world.
Ten years ago, if you were in Monaco or Saint Tropez, you would see a lot of yachts of 30 to 40 meters, and only a handful of 50 , 60 meters.
Today a 50/60 meters yachts ( 160 feet) is unremarkable ,and if you yacht is 30 meters only, you look poor, it is unfair .
While the growth in global wealth had an influence on the number and the size of mega super yachts, but the biggest factor is the revolution in technology.
We cannot say that there was radical changes in design, but now yachts are considered as second home, so as most of those yachts owners have big houses, they now want big yachts with hammam, sauna, a 30 seats cinema, and a medical emergency suite.
Among the most advanced design, we can point out, the 119m A designed by Philippe Starck and Martin Francis , launched by Blohm & Voss in 2009
French :
Wally Hermes Yacht
Une initiative rare : deux marques de luxe qui s’étaient associés pour en créer une nouvelle : Why. La maison Hermès qu’on ne présente plus, s’ajoutait à Wally, designer-constructeur de yacht italien basé à Monaco , pour mettre au monde un méga yacht nouvelle génération donc écologique .
Ce yacht devait en effet être en bonne partie écologique, car équipé de 900 m2 de panneaux thermovoltaïc.
58m par 38m, sur 3 niveaux, pour 12 personnes et 20 d’équipages, 3400m2 de surface habitable, une piscine de 25m de long. Ce projet, aurait pu révolutionner notre conception de la relation de l’homme avec la mer”. Bref du méga luxe.
Alors qu’une joint-venture avait été crée mi 2008, on a appris récemment qu’Hermès avait décidé de se retirer du projet, qu’il estimait trop couteux, Wally va certainement s’orienter seul vers un projet plus modeste de 37 mètres par 24 mètres