PLK Design have been shortlisted for Main Salon Award in  The International Yacht & Aviation Awards 2023.

The Horizon FD103 ASKARI is the first of Horizon’s newest FD100 models – custom-designed as a flexible semi-displacement, extended-range explorer vessel with all the comforts of home. The overall aesthetic of the interiors reflects the owners’ first inspiration so well, making it a project that has separate design identities, but the result is one cohesive design.

While the yacht features a traditional layout on the main deck, with an expansive aft deck, a salon highlighted by full-height windows, and a formal dining area and galley forward, it is anything but traditional in its styling. It shifts from the formality of marine interiors. Large open-plan spaces provide flexibility and versatility which has become a definite requirement for the Australian market, and the ability to focus on Australian designers achieves a modern elegance to the aesthetic of the interiors but retains the owners’ desire for a casual relaxed feel. Australian furniture maker Jardan supplied much of the furniture, from the dining table and chairs to the tub chairs in the salon. The use of Australian designers continues in the lighting, with SØKTAS Hand Blown Glass Lighting providing the main ceiling feature light in the salon as well as the wall lamps in the full-beam master stateroom on the main deck forward.

The salon was designed using marine hues as the base to merge with the natural beauty of the Australian environment seamlessly. The Indigo-coloured lounge was finished with Westbury Textiles Toscana Indoor/Outdoor fabric to allow guests a seamless transfer from their water sports. Named as a nod to the owner’s family heritage, Askari means soldier Swahili, and this is a motif carried in many of the feature fabric selections with stunning African and tribal-inspired prints spread throughout the interiors and highlighted in some wallpaper accents.

ASKARI’s contemporary interiors reflect the owners’ desire to have a ‘Hayman Island’ relaxed and elegant beach house feel on the water designed for the owners to explore the world in style and comfort. The renowned resort on Hayman Island was used as the inspiration for PLK DESIGN to achieve a relaxed but elegant result, focusing on handcrafted furniture and lighting from iconic Australian designers. PLK Design looked to reflect the informality of the Australian lifestyle compared to its European counterparts, as the idea of existing in a solely formal space while aiming to relax felt counterintuitive. The dining area is a testament to this as it is suitable for either having breakfast in board shorts or dinner in a suit. Beautiful, hard-wearing and low-maintenance materials were used throughout, such as for the Cambria stone divider that is between the galley and main salon can be open when the owners are relaxing by themselves or raised for privacy when a chef is onboard.

Exterior Designer / Naval Architect: Cor-D-Rover
Interior Designer/ Designer: PLK Design
Shipyard: Horizon yachts
Photographer Credit: Eddie Lo and James Dumergue

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