Simply Abu Dhabi XXXVI

A family home at sea; that is the founding principle of German shipyard Lürssen’s latest launch, TIS. And while this seems to be the desired result for many yacht owners in 2019, in the case of TIS, her owner is true to his word. Planning on spending nine months of the year on board his floating palace, with just close family and 38 crew alongside, every inch of this Winch Designed 111m yacht has been painstakingly crafted to answer the brief for a Parisian classical aesthetic. “TIS is a work of art,” says Andrew Winch. “It’s a really unique yacht, centred around the lifestyle of the family. The brief was that they like to feel at home – so what does home feel like? To them, it feels like a Castello in Florence, a grand chateau in the middle of Paris, a mansion in Mayfair. And if you put that into hotels, it is Claridge’s in London, Le Bristol in Paris, the Four Seasons in Florence, and Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc here in the south of France.” Built to PYC class (Passenger Yacht Code, a relatively new Lloyd's Register classification), nearly all plaster and cornicing work is in fact made from milled aluminium. Both the interior and exterior come from the boards of Winch Design, and all 4,699GT of TIS is refined and elegant. With a beam of 16.85m she boasts vast interior volumes conceived to be both spacious and intimate.