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Design Attitude is a project from the Fondazione Fashion Research Italy, a nonprofit foundation by Cav. Alberto Masotti that has worked with a series of YACademy alumni and collaborated with some of the most distinguished names in contemporary design in order to actualize the Renzo Brandone Fund. 

Consisting of a collection of invaluable textile art designs, the Brandone Fund is an inexhaustible mine of creative inspirations predominantly oriented to the fashion industry but also able to express much in the design field.

Design Attitude then asked 6 leading designers, including De Lucchi, Ben Van Berkel, and David Chipperfield, along with YACademy students, to imagine furniture and interior solutions that would make use of the textures preserved in the Fund. Among these collaborative experiences, the primary and most successful is the collaboration of students with renowned yacht designer Francesco Pazskowsky. An archistar in the nautical field, they partnered with Baglietto, one of the world's most exceptional and prestigious shipyards, to see the project thru.

The exercise was to imagine that, in a product as exclusive and exceptional as a yacht, Baglietto's owners could find the opportunity to identify an additional element of uniqueness in the use of prints that refer to the creative heritage of the golden years of made-in-Italy fashion.  

The designs of Brandone Fund become textures, ceramics, wallpapers, upholstery, and chandeliers that decorate the elegant and precious interiors of Baglietto yachts.

An adventure not limited to the nautical world but a project of exclusivity and luxury, it was imagined that the Fund's designs would be seen at the exit of the owner's cabins and yachts. Thus becoming an exclusive capsule collection designed for the single boat and owner. The owner of a Baglietto yacht will be able to inhabit his or her favorite textures and wear them in moments of relaxation, certain to be its sole owner and user.

This article shows the results of the projects that, under the tutorship of Francesco Paszkowski, came to life as a result of the work of YACademy's architectural designers. Baglietto's framework has indeed represented the ideal context for collaboration between designers from different fields of study, acting as a meeting place between disciplines and as a player suitable to enhance their respective specificities. 

The architectural designers were asked to implement the yachts' interior, building an aesthetic that, starting from the Fund's prints, could optimally integrate the needs of a potential luxury customer and the latest stylistic trends. 

The oriental traits of the work proposed by Denislav Sokolov emerge from an in-depth study of the modularity inherent in naval design. Modularity is extraordinarily close to the Japanese spatial conception based on the tatami.

From such parallelism comes a shaped space where harmony is sought as a play of proportions. Materiality is reduced to the essentials, and chiaroscuros define the environment more than solid structures. In Sreelakshmi Gopinath’s project, on the other hand, the design has inspired not only the ornamental motifs of the interior but also the structure of the furnishings, in which sinuous shapes, derived from the digitizing and modeling of the print, literally shape the ceilings and walls of the bedroom.

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