Sinot Yacht Architecture & Design

• Founder: Sander Sinot, industrial designer
• Founded: 1990s
• Based: the Netherlands, near Amsterdam
• Team: around 50 people
• Disciplines: exterior and interior design, yacht architecture
• Signature yacht: Aquarius (92m, Feadship, 2016)
• Notable concepts: Aqua (hydrogen), Nature

A Dutch studio with an industrial eye

Sander Sinot trained as an industrial designer before turning to yachts, and he founded his own studio in the Netherlands in the 1990s. The office sits a short drive from Amsterdam and has grown to a team of around fifty across architecture, design and engineering. It covers both interior and exterior design under one roof. That single-studio approach is central to the seamless look it aims for. Keeping interior and exterior under one roof avoids the visual seams that appear when two firms split a yacht.

The industrial-design background shows in the studio's care over ergonomics, materials and how things are made. Sinot treats a yacht as a whole object rather than a hull with rooms added afterwards. The team spans modelling, visualisation and production consultancy alongside pure design. This breadth lets the office follow an idea from sketch to finished detail. The team can shape a concept, engineer it and resolve the detail without handing the work off at each stage.

Calm, natural and minimal

The Sinot signature is restraint, with clean lines, natural materials and a strong link between inside and outside. The studio favours calm interiors where light, stone and wood do the work rather than ornament. Its exteriors are quiet and modern, letting proportion carry the design. The overall effect is serene rather than loud. The studio trusts materials, light and proportion to carry a room rather than layers of decoration.

Nature is a recurring theme, and the office often brings greenery, water and daylight deep into a yacht. This gives its work a wellness-minded, contemporary feel that many owners now seek. The studio blends natural and man-made elements with a light hand. That balance has become its recognisable hallmark. Bringing daylight and greenery deep into a hull is far harder than it looks from outside.

Calm minimalism today, and a serious argument for hydrogen tomorrow.

Aquarius and the clean-energy concepts

The 92 metre Aquarius, built by Feadship and delivered in 2016 for Steve Wynn, is the studio's best-known yacht, with Sinot responsible for exterior and interior. The design paired minimalist styling with Feadship's engineering to widely admired effect. It remains a strong example of the studio's calm aesthetic at large scale. The yacht helped establish Sinot at the top of the market. It showed that a minimalist hand could sit comfortably on a very large custom yacht.

The office is equally known for forward-looking concepts that test new ideas. Aqua, unveiled in 2019, imagined a 112 metre yacht running on liquid hydrogen and drew global attention to zero-emission propulsion. The 120 metre Nature concept placed a living garden at the heart of the design. These studies signal where the studio thinks luxury yachting could go. The concepts read as serious engineering studies rather than show pieces meant only for a stand.

Partnering with Feadship

Sinot's close work with Feadship has shaped much of its built portfolio and its reputation. The relationship pairs the studio's styling with one of the most exacting builders in the world. Working with a yard of that calibre demands precision, and the studio's industrial rigour fits well. That partnership has produced some of its most complete work. Building with a yard of that standard leaves little room for error in the detail.

The office engages owners in a detailed conversation about how they want to live at sea. Its wellness-minded, nature-led themes often come straight from those talks. The studio guides a project through construction to keep the calm intent intact. This careful process suits owners drawn to a quieter kind of luxury. Those owners tend to value calm and a sense of wellness over outward display.

A voice for the yacht of the future

Sinot has carved out a clear position as a studio of restraint and of ideas about sustainability. Its concepts have shaped the industry conversation on clean propulsion more than most. That thought leadership sits alongside a respected record of delivered yachts. The office is taken seriously on both fronts. Delivered yachts and forward-looking concepts reinforce each other in the studio's reputation.

The studio's calm, natural style has proven influential as tastes have shifted away from excess. Its work with Feadship keeps it near the centre of the Dutch scene. Sinot continues to develop both real yachts and concepts. It has become a reference for a cleaner, quieter idea of the superyacht. That position has grown more valuable as owners weigh the impact of their yachts.

Who it is for: Owners drawn to calm, minimalist design and a studio thinking hard about cleaner propulsion.