Numarine commissions five different interiors for the same superyacht, and a Brazilian designer signs one of them

Numarine has revealed five interior concepts for its Classic Line, the superyacht range the Istanbul yard brought to market in April this year with the 38XPC and 39MXPC models.

What stands out is not the number of projects but the way they were made. Instead of ordering variations on a single scheme, Numarine handed the boat to five different studios from four countries and gave each one freedom to develop its own interior, with a free hand on woods, stones, textiles and metals. The yard named the programme Numarine Atelier.

The five are Italy's Hot Lab, Türkiye's Ofist, fellow Italian studio Vallicelli Design, the Anglo-Austrian Sturge & Toth and the American Carla Guilhem Design, from Miami.

What sits beneath the five interiors

Before the decoration, it is worth understanding what does not change from one project to the next.

Both Classic Line models were built on platforms the yard had already been producing in the XP and MXP series. Naval architecture is by Umberto Tagliavini, exterior design by Can Yalman. The hull is steel, the superstructure composite, classification is RINA Pleasure + and the stated build time is 18 months.

Standard power comes from twin MAN D2868 LE 425 engines of 800 hp each, with the option of twin D2862 LE 427 units of 900 hp in heavy duty, IMO Tier III configuration. Cruising speed is 12 knots and economic speed 8 knots, which is precisely where the 6,000 nautical mile range appears.

For context, 6,000 miles is enough to cross the Atlantic with fuel to spare. That figure, rather than length, defines the league these boats play in.

Classic does not mean nostalgic

Numarine built its reputation on the XP explorers, rugged, almost utilitarian boats made for range and remote places. The Classic Line keeps that capability and changes the clothes.

Can Yalman's work sought proportion and permanence rather than historical quotation. There is no attempt to imitate a 1930s yacht here: what there is instead is a long horizontal line, a set back superstructure and a silhouette that ages slowly.

The designer explains the reasoning himself. "For us, explorer capability is not a styling exercise. It is about how and where you can use the yacht," said Can Yalman. "The Classic Line retains the qualities that are fundamental to Numarine: autonomy, comfort for extended cruising, generous volumes, practical spaces and a strong connection with the sea. The difference is the way those capabilities are expressed aesthetically."

The 39MXPC parts company with its smaller sibling mainly at the stern, reorganised as a large terrace open onto the water. The 38XPC follows a more traditional reading, conceived for owners who cruise with a smaller crew.

The commercial problem the five projects solve

Here is the point that matters to those who sell boats, not only to those who buy them.

In the semicustom superyacht world, the slowest phase of a negotiation is usually settling the interior. The yard presents the platform, the buyer signs off on the hull, and then begins a long process of choosing finishes from samples and technical drawings. It is a stage where many deals cool off, because it demands that the client imagine a space that does not yet exist.

Numarine reversed the order. Instead of asking the owner to imagine, it delivered five finished environments, radically different from one another, each with a closed identity.

The yard's CEO, Patrik von Sydow, who returned to the role in late 2025 after already holding it between 2010 and 2012, frames the strategy in these terms. "It allows potential owners to see how differently the same platform can be interpreted and makes the yacht much more personal from the very beginning," he said. "Instead of asking an owner to imagine what customisation could look like, we are giving them five strong creative starting points."

On the industrial side the maths works because none of this touches what is expensive. Hull, engineering, naval architecture and general arrangement remain the same in all five cases. The variation happens in the finishing layer, where the cost of changing is comparatively low.

Five readings of the same space

The contrast between the projects is obvious when you look at each main saloon.

Ofist, from Istanbul, founded in 2004 by Yasemin Arpaç and Sabahattin Emir, came closest to the idea of a yacht club: navy blue, caramel leather, herringbone flooring and a bar in aged mirror. The studio had already worked with Numarine on the alternative interior for the 30XP.

Hot Lab, from Milan, is the yard's long standing partner, responsible for the interiors of the 45XP and the 32XP. It worked with fluted oak, pale travertine and a restrained palette in which the design shows up in the joinery rather than the colour.

Vallicelli Design, from Rome, is the oldest of the five. It was founded in 1976 by Andrea Vallicelli, designer of the Azzurra yachts, Italy's challenge in the 1983 and 1987 America's Cups, and the first full professor of nautical industrial design in Italy. His project bets on curves: a suspended oval ceiling, a continuous sofa and circulation without corners.

Sturge & Toth, created in 2020 by Toby Sturge and Ben Julian Toth, with bases in London, Antibes and Vienna, took the boat into Mediterranean register: exposed curved beams, sand and sea green tones, natural fibres and furniture with a handmade feel. The studio became known last year for the Gladius 52 concept, shown at the Monaco Yacht Show.

The Brazilian among the five

The fifth name on the list carries a story of particular interest to Brazilian readers.

Carla Guilhem grew up in Brazil, in a family in the furniture business, and studied architecture in São Paulo before graduating in interior design from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid. She spent time in Italy and Spain, worked on high end residential projects in New York and the Hamptons and opened her own studio in Miami in 2012.

In yachting, her strongest credential is the award for best yacht interior at Boat International's Superyacht Design & Innovation Awards in 2023.

Her project for the Classic Line is the brightest of the set: white marble with grey veining from floor to ceiling, golden metals, fluted glass and a geometric floor that breaks the symmetry of the room.

Seeing a Brazilian trained professional share an international commission with studios from Milan, Rome, Istanbul and London says something about the standing that design of Brazilian origin has reached abroad. It is the kind of presence that rarely shows up in the advertising, but is there in the project credits.

A bathroom that became a recovery room

Alongside the five interiors, the yard presented a wellness option for the Classic Line bathrooms that deserves a note of its own, because it shows where the segment is heading.

The configuration brings together circadian lighting, which follows the body clock through the day, filtered air, mineralised water, an infrared sauna, cold therapy and showers with recovery programmes. Instead of the decorative spa that usually occupies a corner of the lower deck, the proposal treats sleep, energy and physical recovery as part of the design brief.

It makes sense on a boat of this type. Anyone buying an explorer with 6,000 miles of range spends weeks on board, far from shore facilities, and that is exactly when poor sleep and lack of exercise present the bill.

What comes next

Numarine will take the 27XP to the Cannes Yachting Festival, from 8 to 13 September, for its world debut, along with the 40MXP flagship for its European debut. The Classic Line, for now, exists as a project: no hull sale for either model has been publicly announced by the yard.

Founded by Ömer Malaz in the early 2000s, Numarine today works across a range from 22 to 47 metres and concentrates its production in the explorer segment, where it built its reputation with the XP series from 2016 onwards.

What the Classic Line ultimately proposes is a separation the industry rarely practises: seagoing capability on one side, aesthetic language on the other, with neither dictating the other. Five studios proved that the same steel hull accommodates five different ways of living at sea.