Rome Design Awards Design Of the Year

2026

Horizon Vessel

Entrant Company

Minimal Studio

Category

Interior Design - Luxury Yachts & Cruise Ships

Client's Name

Country / Region

Spain

“A floating temple to silence and matter.”

Horizon Vessel is born from the silence of the horizon.

A yacht conceived as a floating temple to minimalism, where the sea ceases to be a setting and becomes matter. The absence of visual noise, geometric purity, and material balance define a space that does not seek to impress, but to disappear.

Each plane is a pause. Architecture dissolves into the calm of the horizon, and space becomes an extension of the sea.

Marine microcement, satin steel, smoked oak, and black basalt. Matter speaks for itself. No artifice—only weight, texture, and reflection.

Diffuse, grazing, and controlled light. Lighting does not impose itself; it accompanies. 2700K, concealed, modulated by planes and textures.

Each piece belongs to the space as if it had always been there.

Ghost Armchair · Obsidian Table · Horizon Bed · Line of Silence Luminaire.

Two millimeters of precision are the difference between design and obsession. Pearl white, concrete grey, basalt black, toasted wood, warm sand. A reduced palette to expand the infinite.

Horizon Vessel does not seek to conquer the sea, but to belong to it.

It is the architecture of silence—a line on the horizon floating between the human and the essential.

Credits

Ceo and Designer / Minimal Studio
Joan David Martínez Jofre
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