28 September 2026 · Yotters, independent yacht media

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Designers & Studios

The studios and naval architects that shape the world's superyachts.

84 Designers

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Hot Lab

Founded: 2004 in Milan by Michele Dragoni, Enrico Lumini and Antonio Romano

Malcolm McKeon Yacht Design

Founder: Malcolm McKeon, naval architect

H2 Yacht Design

Founders: Jonny Horsfield and Steve Howard, London, 1994

Christian Liaigre

Founder: Christian Liaigre (1943 to 2020), opened his first Paris showroom on rue de Varenne in the mid-1980s after training at the Beaux-Arts and the Arts Decoratifs

Fulvio De Simoni Yacht Design

Career start: early 1970s, as a naval designer in Milan

Ken Freivokh Design

Founder: Ken Freivokh, born in Los Angeles to a French father and Chilean mother

Design Unlimited

Founders: Mark Tucker (creative director) and Julie Tucker (managing director)

Cristiano Gatto Design

Founder: Cristiano Gatto, trained in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (Maestro d'Arte qualification at 22), worked at Philippe Starck's Italian studio before moving into yacht design around 2000

Van Oossanen Naval Architects

Founder: Dr Ir. Peter (Piet) van Oossanen, naval architect and hydrodynamicist, formerly head of the advanced-ships department at MARIN, the Maritime Research Institute of the Netherlands

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