Anouska Hempel’s sailing boat is as legendary as the designer herself
Legendary designer anouska hempel holidays in grand fashion—on her personal sailing boat, a traditional gulet with black sails.
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Anouska Hempel—or Lady Weinberg, as she is known in her private life—is dealing with a downpour. Or rather her crew is. This is the downside of having a boat, even if it is in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Mallorca in May. Men far more dashing than your typical deckhand hurry below with cushions and mattresses, as the boat’s owner and designer takes refuge beneath the expansive awning to chat.
If the unexpectedly inclement weather is the downside, the upside is the 28-metre-long boat itself. A traditional wooden gulet, the purchase of the Beluga 1, as it was named, took place in Bodrum, Turkey, some 15 years ago. Out of the water and perched on stilts at the end of the season, even in its poorly state it was a case of love at first sight. The decisive Hempel went into the nearest bar and “chatted up” two trusty sailors (“one’s name was Genghis”) willing to navigate it to Mallorca “by the stars and the moon”, a journey that took three weeks.
SLOW, STEADY The restoration and renovation job took well over a year. And it’s an ongoing project, “because you have to look after a wooden boat very, very well”. Stretching wide in the water, with its distinctive black sails, the Beluga 1 has become an enviable and instantly identifiable classic—spotted around the Mediterranean from Seville to Istanbul and the Amalfi Coast. It’s available to hire throughout the summer months, hand-picked crew included, and Hempel says she manages to snag only about two weeks on it each year.
Much has been made of her desire to buck the trend for the type of slick yacht favoured by her peers. For her, the reason is simple. “I didn’t want a speedboat,” she explains. “I didn’t want anything that goes fast around the Mediterranean. I’m a gypsy and a slow one, so I needed to be on my own ground and be in an environment that I liked, and it’s easier to do that in a beautiful, big, wooden [boat] than it is on a very lovely, compact, white shiny thing.”
Encroachments from the modern world such as lights and switches are hidden as much as they can be, and the exquisite interior has a focus on the functional. In the kitchen, sinks have a wooden rim to avoid chipping plates, drawers are without handles, and heavy baskets are on tracks for easy sliding.
CONDUCIVE TO CHANGE For Hempel, working on a boat as opposed to a hotel was “common sense”. She says, “All you have to do is make sure everything is in its place, [that] there’s a place for everything, and make sure things are secure. You need [an innate] common sense at the end of the day.”
An innate sense of style doesn’t hurt, either. In the space below deck—transformed from a warren of small cabins into three-to-four exquisite ones—wood, unsurprisingly, dominates. The charming interiors have strong competition, however, in the aft deck—with its awning stretching the width of the boat, and its surfeit of divans and cushions that encourage worry-free lounging in the place with the best view.
At the time of this interview, Hempel was getting ready to work her magic on the boat once more, in what would be its fifth makeover. The overhaul was going to be entirely cosmetic: “You never change everything on a boat this age,” she pointed out.
What’s changing is the colour scheme: “Going from ginger to saffron, if you want to go down the spice route with me,” Hempel smiles. “Saffron and turmeric and mustard and black. The chef will be doing food to match—basically Asian with an Italian twist.” Given the designer’s eye for the subtly special detail, that seems a given. Any yacht-spotters out there shouldn’t get too used to the new incarnation. Creative urges and itchy fingers indicate the scheme has perhaps a two-year lifespan. After that, “Mustard will be out and wasabi will be in!” she suggests with a laugh. And the menu adjusted accordingly, of course.
THINGS TO COME A famous beauty with impeccable style, her razor-sharp intellect is also coupled with a tireless work ethic. She is the first to admit that she doesn’t suffer fools gladly, nor, when it comes to her exacting vision, any tedious attempts to water it down. “‘I will not be value-engineered’—it will say that on my tombstone,” she states enigmatically, her disarming sense of humour laced with something a tad spikier.
The clientele of her eponymous design firm might be at the high end of the market, but she’s not afraid of spreading her talent around—if the project makes sense. “Give me an old tanker and I’ll turn it into a student hotel. It has to be wild and wonderful.” But not just her name slapped on any old thing. “It’s got to be something amusing. It can’t just be a rubber mat for the bath that you don’t slip on.”
While luxurious black-sailed gulets have yet to be dumbed down for the masses, she’s rather Zen-like about the re-appropriation of her ideas in general. “Everyone copies everything you do anyway. The moment you open a hotel you’ve had it. You’re exposing yourself to the riff-raff and the gentry of the world—all with the same turn of the key.”
Anouska Hempel Design, and its team of 30, is currently working on apartment blocks, hotels, restaurants, palaces, and several big gardens, from Dubai to Istanbul and Manchester. The late-July to early-August period will witness the opening of two hotels: Blakes Singapore (carrying forward the legacy of the boutique hotel that started it all) and the Franklin, in Knightsbridge, London.
“Bored? I’m too busy to be bored. I think that’s a terrible word!” she replies incredulously when asked about the impetus behind her unceasing workload. “You can’t be bored. Life’s too busy and wonderful and there’s always something around the corner.” Navigated, undoubtedly, with grace and a steady hand—just like she sails.
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The view from the bow of the Beluga 1, owned by London-based designer Anouska Hempel.
The lights and lamp in the study are from the Anouska Hempel Design couture collection. The baskets are in leather.
The tables in the foreground are by Anouska Hempel Design; in the background a Riva motor boat is in tow.
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What can we say? Mere superlatives are inadequate for this splendiferous yacht. Designed by the incomparable Anouska Hempel - of London's Blakes Hotel and The Hempel fame - Beluga 1 is just unbelievable.
From her signature black sails to the exotic cane-furnished interior, she oozes class and style. Not really one for those who would rather remain low-key and anonymous, she stands out from the crowd wherever she goes. Completely rebuilt by her two owners (of which Ms Hempel is half of the couple) she is maintained in superb condition and is a worthy testament to the fastidious obsession with quality which characterizes the Hempel hotels.
Not content with wowing on the exterior, she boasts a top-quality chef and a butler who flies down from London to look after her guests.
She is ideal for two couples with a third bunk room (think Ritz not YMCA) for two others and, at a pinch, the study - what else would one expect? - can accommodate a seventh guest. But really this is indulgence in the grand style for two or four. Anyway, why on earth would one want to share this sort of luxury with other than one's best BF?
She exists to please her owners so her itineraries are somewhat a hostage to their whims but she can usually be found meandering between Croatia, the Ionian islands and the Cyclades as well as venturing east into the beautiful waters of the Turquoise coast.
One for the jaded aficionado who thought style had gone out with the Recession...
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21 February 2011: This Summer, Dalmatian Destinations adds design doyenne Anouska Hempel’s treasured gulet, BELUGA, to its portfolio of luxury yachts available to charter in Croatia and Montenegro.
Whilst Anouska Hempel has received international acclaim for her iconic hotels, private residences and gardens, Beluga has – until now – been a well-kept secret, preserved only for use by close family and friends. This summer, Beluga will enjoy her inaugural summer in Croatia available for private charters for the first time with Dalmatian Destinations, experts in personalised sailing itineraries to this nautical playground of 1,300 pristine islands.
As one would imagine, everything about Beluga is immaculate. This 28 metre Turkish gullet has been entirely rebuilt and beautifully designed to an impeccable standard; a complete one-off. The colour scheme is of Hempel’s signature monochrome. The expansive deck space is covered in oversized cushions. The mahogany mast is dressed in dramatic black sails, and, at the stern, sweeping black drapes frame the views of the sea. Frette linen adorns her three cabins and nothing but the best bone chinaware is served at the table.
“Everything I do is influenced by the sea”, says Hempel. “I love its romance and its mystery. I especially love that time of the day, very early in the morning when the sea and the sky blend into one silvery slick. I think I would be very happy living on the back of a sardine. I just adore that silvery colour.”
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It was this love of the sea that prompted the hotelier, designer and couturier to buy Beluga in 1992 (since refitted in 1997 and 2007). “I don’t know what got into me but one day I decided we just had to have a boat. I had always loved the boats in Bodrum, which they bring onto land in the winter to dry the keels. I felt sure that if we went down in October, when it was quiet and everyone’s holidays were over, we would find a beautiful old boat in need of some love and attention.”
Hempel chose Beluga as she has a lovely swing to her and was elegant, even in her original state. “She was Greek blue which I don’t like but we stripped away everything but the bare essentials, such as the mast, and took years re-building her. I was aiming for a relaxed, non-pretentious look for happy days at sea.”
It was a labour of love but one that has brought endless enjoyment and wonderful memories during the years since.
Hempel’s favourite onboard luxury, after Jorge the butler, is hot water and air conditioning. She and her husband Mark Weinberg have a bathroom each and Anouska’s features an enamel bath. “Everyone told me I couldn’t have a proper bath on a boat but why on earth not?”
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There is a galley that would look luxurious in a New York apartment. Here your chef de cuisine and his team prepare food for an average of twelve guests per day. Beluga was designed for lively lunches and sophisticated dinners. “This boat was always about entertaining. We could have designed another cabin but instead we preferred to have additional space for relaxing and entertaining. We can fit 18 people round the table so easy to pick up friends from port to port and invite them for dinners onboard.”
Alongside Beluga’s dedicated Captain, her crew includes a chef from Blakes Hotel and a steward to provide guests with immaculate service and signature dishes from Hempel’s famed hotels. An engineer and deck hand are onboard for seamless sailing adventures and watersports on Beluga’s 4.5m RIB tender.
BELUGA accommodates a maximum of 7 guests and is available to charter from €40,000 per week on a full-board basis.
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Black sails do not traditionally presage good news. In Greek mythology, the sight of them on Theseus’s ship caused the ancient Athenian king Aegeus to drown himself in what became the Aegean, assuming it meant that the minotaur had killed his son. And in fiction, at least, they’ve long been the choice of pirates.
But times change. And even amid the remarkable yachts backed up to the palm-lined promenade quay at Porto Montenegro, the self-styled “premier marina destination in the Mediterranean”, it was the furled black canvas hung from twin mahogany masts that made Beluga 1 the stand-out sailboat.
A rare sight in Balkan waters, this 28-metre gulet belongs to the wealth management tycoon Sir Mark Weinberg and his wife, the hotelier and interior designer Anouska Hempel, and is usually berthed in Istanbul. But this summer she’s available to charter for the first time and will be based in Croatia and Montenegro.
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I’d boarded her in Dubrovnik, where from the mainland her dark profile was scarcely discernible against the wine-dark sea and densely wooded shore of the islet off which she was moored. From there, we’d headed south – about four hours – to Porto Montenegro, the ambitious marina development created by the octogenarian Canadian gold-mining tycoon Peter Munk (whose 43-metre motor yacht Golden Eagle lay just across the water from our berth there), and backed by a consortium that numbers, among others, Jacob Rothschild and his son Nathaniel; Bernard Arnault, president of luxury goods group LVMH; and the Russian aluminium magnate Oleg Deripaska.
Located at Tivat, on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Kotor, often called the largest fjord in southern Europe, the port was established in the 19th century as headquarters of the Austro-Hungarian imperial navy and remained a Yugoslav military facility throughout the cold war and then the Balkan war. Indeed, earlier this month an intriguing museum opened at the marina to showcase not just the nautical heritage of the area, but an array of extraordinary 20th-century naval vessels – an underwater scooter, a small-scale “wet” submarine, driven by a diver because it filled with water, even a full-size nuclear submarine – that had been pulled from the depths here. As you sail up the fjord from the Adriatic, there is no erasing its military past. The rusting hulks of warships are visible along its shore, and semi-camouflaged openings in the mountainside still harbour vestiges of naval hardware.
Porto Montenegro’s first release of berths and residences opened two years ago. But this summer has seen a step-change in what the nascent port has to offer, notably the launch of a dozen or so shops: a chandlery and book store, pop-up fashion outlets (inevitably there’s an emphasis on smart swimwear, hence branches of Heidi Klein and Vilebrequin) and a branch of the Florentine jeweller Carolina Bucci.
More strikingly, there’s also a new lido with a splendid 60m infinity pool tiled in black-and-white mosaic; a huge head-and-torso installation by the Catalan artist Jaume Plensa; and a dramatically linear building containing a restaurant. Designed by the British architect Richard Hywel Evans, it owes something to the America’s Cup Pavilion in Valencia, an intentional reference, I couldn’t help feeling, given that it’s surely only a matter of time till Porto Montenegro becomes a focal point for significant sailing competitions.
For all its newness, though, and the fact that only about 15 per cent of the project is complete, Porto Montenegro already feels both well-established and buzzing. Though only 185 of the projected 650 berths are open to date, they’re already at near capacity, and obviously the yacht owners, guests and crews animate the place. “That’s a real party boat,” one staff member quipped, casting an admiring glance towards the 54-metre Admiral superyacht Sea Force One that was moored at the quay reserved for the biggest boats (there will be 130 berths dedicated to superyachts). But already, locals come in from neighbouring Tivat for the korzo , as the passeggiatta or evening stroll is known in this part of the Med, or to eat at its modish, yet inexpensive main café-restaurant. A two-course dinner – octopus salad followed by steamed local mussels and clams, for instance – costs less than €20 a head here.
Pending the building of a waterfront hotel, the only place for non-residents to stay at Porto Montenegro is a yacht. And given the splendour of those docked here in the run-up to Nathaniel Rothschild’s breathlessly anticipated 40th birthday party (which took place at the lido two weeks ago), I was glad to have as head-turning a boat as Beluga to call home.
For her interiors are as exotic as her sails. Anyone who has stayed at Hempel’s London hotel Blakes will be familiar with her maximalist yet largely monochrome aesthetic. The Beluga sleeps seven in three cabins. The master suite, positioned unusually in the pointed bow rather than the squarer stern, has not just an emperor-sized bed, but freestanding chairs, a pile of ancient trunks, a wall of shelves on which stand untethered wicker baskets (who knows what happens in a storm?) and not one but two ensuite bathrooms (his with a walk-in shower; hers with a cast-iron bath).
Below stairs there are two further cabins, one with a double bed; another with commodious bunks; and a study with a desk that converts to a single bed. But this yacht’s real appeal is her decks and the highly polished saloon with its piles of trunks, coffee-table books, rattan blinds and perfumed air. And cushions, cushions everywhere. Purists may baulk at how cluttered and unship-shape it all looks, but she’s a true original.
That Beluga is available to charter at all is down to Michael Bird, an investment banker-turned-owner of charter specialist Dalmatian Destinations and a consultant at St James’s Place, the wealth-management company founded by Weinberg.
It’s a small venture, and Bird makes a point of representing only yachts on which he has stayed, whose owners and skippers he knows personally for, as anyone who’s sailed much in these waters knows, the calibre and charm (or lack of it) of the crew can make or break a holiday.
Certainly, there was no faulting the impeccably uniformed, Turkish four-man team on Beluga, nor the debonair Portuguese steward Jorge, who also cooks (very well) in the absence of a chef from Blakes, who is usually aboard during charters. If there’s a downside to boating in the Balkans without a local crew, it’s that they may not yet have the in-depth local knowledge of this coast, its sights and its restaurants. But if you’re chartering a yacht like Beluga, which with all-inclusive rates from €35,000 a week is no little undertaking, you might be forgiven for opting to dine aboard.
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Claire Wrathall was a guest of Dalmatian Destinations ( www.dalmatiandestinations.com ). Charters for less expensive boats start at €1,500 per person, per week, including meals, moorings and fuel.
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Anouska Hempel is celebrated for her command of the Grand Manner – a design technique influenced by classical art, with ‘calm intimacy and subtle layering’. One project of note – Hotel Monsieur George in Paris – brings the Bosphorus to Paris. Inspired by her Arabic and Lebanese connections, Hempel has created ‘a Moroccan oasis’ via dark-green details and lush velvet furnishings.
Design historian Marcus Binney has praised her eclectic designs, which combine both beauty and charm: ‘[She] could have been born in any era, anywhere in the world – and, however lowly or isolated, she would have beaten a path to opportunity, success and good living.’
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SOUNION II is a custom motor yacht launched in 1969 by Benetti and most recently refitted in 2023.
Over one century of history, more than 350 boats built including three giga yachts of 100mt and longer, over 300,000 sq m (3.229.173 sq.ft) of production facilities. These facts and figures unambiguously demonstrate the momentum of Benetti’s growth and Clients’ unrestrained confidence in the brand.
SOUNION II measures 31.62 metres in length, with a max draft of 2.42 metres and a beam of 6.20 metres. She has a gross tonnage of 169 tonnes. She has a deck material of teak.
SOUNION II has a steel hull with an aluminium superstructure.
Her interior design is by Anouska Hempel.
SOUNION II also features naval architecture by Benetti.
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SOUNION II has a top speed of 13.00 knots and a cruising speed of 11.50 knots. She is powered by a twin screw propulsion system.
SOUNION II has a fuel capacity of 37,000 litres, and a water capacity of 6,000 litres.
She also has a range of 2,900 nautical miles.
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SOUNION II accommodates up to 10 guests in 4 cabins. She also houses room for up to 6 crew members.
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Known for her wildly contrasting styles, actress-turned-designer anouska hempel – sleeper’s first and only cover star – tells guy dittrich about her new project in paris and spreading magic wherever she goes..
What’s this silver pot with the frothy toothpaste in it?” asks Anouska Hempel, examining my WhatsApp profile picture of a cappuccino. It is the strangest of starts to our online interview – a sign of our pandemic times – but the conversation flows and is full of the endearingly unexpected as we flit from one topic to the next.
A designer of the ages, Hempel has delivered some of the world’s most groundbreaking hotels. Blakes – her first hotel that opened in 1978 – and The Hempel – making its debut in 1997 – are about as different from one other as can be, but both have gone on to become seminal in the lexicon of hospitality design.
Lady Weinberg, to use her official title, was born in New Zealand and raised in Australia before heading to the UK. There, she created a special niche for herself and a reputation that saw her interviewed in Sleeper in 2000, the first year of our existence. She featured with a portrait image on our front cover, the one and only time that this has happened.
In the feature, we said of Blakes that there’s ‘more soft furnishings than bricks and mortar’, while The Hempel was the ‘ultimate in minimalism’. Hempel was quoted as saying that Blakes “represents things and artefacts; not money but an eclectic way of gathering up the world”. Of The Hempel, now closed, she hoped guests would be inspired by the extraordinary volume of the atrium, instead of things. Both statements were well ahead of their time, illustrating a clear understanding of the importance of experientialism over materialism.
She is engaging, talkative and sharp. In the podcast series recently launched as part of our celebration of 20 years of Sleeper, Hempel accelerates my questioning. Before I got to ask for her vision of the future of hospitality design, she had already launched into ideas of a drone-led culture of travelling pods, in which guests could take their hotel with them. In our subsequent interview, she revisits the pod idea to include a fantasy mothership with pod docking pad.
Hempel’s ideas often have applaudable dream-like qualities. It is exactly such fantasies that are the stuff of the future. But there’s an intensity in everything she does too. When reminded that she talked on the podcast about being a thinker, and that if she can imagine something, it can be realised. “Yes, it will,” she firmly repeats.
A similarly unconventional response comes when I ask what inspires her: “A lot of things don’t inspire me and that inspires me to do better,” she explains. Another of her comments – “I haven’t got anywhere yet; every day is the start,” – is typical of her positive energy.
Of her working style she describes it as “sporadic, complicated, always inventive”. She has a strong desire to return to the usual working practices after the isolation caused by the current pandemic, and is a believer in doing things in person rather than on screen. “I like to make adjustments along the way and changes need to be made in real life, not on a computer,” she elaborates of her hands-on approach. She may have no training as a designer – “I have no training in anything, but I do have trained eye,” she quips – yet has admirably high ideals, stating that “we need to look after beauty for future generations.”
“I like to make adjustments along the way and changes need to be made in real life, not on a computer.”
And beauty is what she creates across a broad spectrum. Her portfolio runs the full gamut of the luxury classes, including high-end residential and retail interiors, landscaping projects, product design for brands such as Louis Vuitton, haute couture worn by British royalty and even yacht interiors. Her Instagram posts indicate a fondness for green spaces. “I like the rhythm in gardens,” she explains of the carefully composed images she posts of her own garden, Cole Park in Wiltshire, the Princess Margaret Memorial Garden in Oxford and more.
Indeed, her work at The Hempel in London’s Bayswater included a small, carefully composed formal garden. Together with Blakes she has several other projects in London, including The Franklin, Grosvenor House Suites and La Suite West. Further afield are The Duxton in Singapore and Blakes Amsterdam. Each in their own way express the duality of her work. The two Blakes properties are both sumptuous with a deep colour palette and plush fabrics, while The Hempel’s white volumes were so constant that doors and cupboards were almost invisible. There are similarities however, such as the use of symmetry and Asian influences, the latter ranging from detailed Chinoiserie to a Zen-like calmness. Her interiors are either gorgeously saturated or serene idylls – nothing in-between.
When asked about the duality that criss-crosses her work, she replies: “You have to be very detailed and conscientious about what you set out to do.” When Hempel decides on a concept, she unapologetically commits. She elaborates to add that her designs are developed around characters: “Each property has been built for a particular expected guest.” At Blakes London it was Marlene Dietrich; at The Franklin in Knightsbridge, it’s an unnamed Italian lady.
Hempel’s most recent project is Monsieur George in Paris. This hotel represents the latest iteration of the Blakes style that has developed through The Franklin and The Duxton. The Duxton, with its white-on-white guestrooms à la The Hempel and darker spaces reminiscent of Blakes, is said by some to encapsulate all her design ideas. Both are super sophisticated, decadent with detailing, largely monochromatic with accent colours and, of course, feature plenty of pillows – a trademark of Blakes. And almost everything you see in her hotels is available for purchase and can be made bespoke – “don’t forget we are couturiers,” she reminds.
In Paris, a city that has long-been been on Hempel’s radar, she describes Monsieur George as a “jolly old Frenchman with a cigar, wearing a Fedora hat and a pair of green velvet shoes”. He’s bit of a fusspot she explains, painting an elaborate image in her mind, and lives in this mélange of Marrakech and Paris. The interiors come with their own contradictions; an oasis of calm yet overlaid with pattern. Such duality is evident in both paler and darker guestroom types and Hempel gets to introduce a garden suite. Another leafy venue is home to Galanga, a bar and restaurant inspired by Monsieur George’s travels to the Far East, giving Hempel her Asia fix. Here, deep green floor tiles feature along with conical lampshades, couture detailing and dark metal framing.
“Everywhere I go I try to leave a statement; a bit of magic and nonsense.”
Several new ventures wait in the wings. Upcoming is a hospitality project in East London that will include a restaurant shielded by 15m-high vertical blades, and another at the former Banco di Roma in the Italian capital for Starhotels, who clearly liked what she did for them at The Franklin. More repeat business for Satinder Garcha, owner of The Duxton, sees an urban cowboy personality riding into Santiago. Another project, a retreat with a spiritual element to be built mostly underground on Sardinia is in planning, a project Hempel drops in as recreation of Warapuru, a development in the Brazilian jungle, now sadly overgrown and that never opened.
Towards the end of our conversation, Hempel relates how lucky she has been on her travels. “I’ve seen the most wonderful houses and met the most wonderful people; notice I put houses first,” she quips in a revealing moment that got me thinking. If she was a building, she would be a folly; one of those with beautiful contradictions that keeps every visitor guessing. Hempel is an intriguing mix of ever-evolving ideas and vignettes, perfectly summed up in her comment: “Everywhere I go, I try to leave a statement; a bit of magic and nonsense.”
CREDITS Words: Guy Dittrich
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Similar yachts New listings  Through The Lens: In Conversation with Anouska HempelFollowing our fabulous stay at the monsieur george, we sat down with the legendary anouska hempel herself and talk about the inspiration behind the hotel’s design, her new hempel house and hotel collection, and how her pieces can turn the home into a replica of our most beloved travel memories..  Jim Thompson- AlchemyTell us a little bit about yourself – what made you fall in love with interior design. I had a very visual aesthetic even from a very young age. I walked along the sea as a child discovering a landscape of my own, and I follow my imagination without any hesitation. My hotel design journey started in Portobello, where I had the best time running an antique silver stand where I sourced specialist pieces for my regular clients, who were often from Italy. This all lead to creating a style for the home, where I created a place where people could live in all this magic.  The Blakes hotel in South Kensington was my very first boutique hotel, followed by many private homes and mews houses which wanted to recreate the hotels’ sense of magic. One project followed another and as you know, once I decide on a concept I am fully committed. Having designed some of the world’s most enigmatic hotels, why was now the right time to launch the Hempel House and Hotel Collection?Two factors really: travel nostalgia and inspiration. We are working on two new incredible hotel projects, one in the beautiful city of Santiago and the other in Philadelphia called the Bellevue, which is an iconic and majestic building in the heart of the city, and lovingly known as ‘The Grande Dame of Broad Street’ dating back to 1904.  In your opinion, how can the Hempel House and Hotel Collection and the ‘hidden glories’ it offers turn the home into a replica of personal travel?The Hempel House and Hotels pieces, trigger fond memories of the places where they came from, serving as a memory and an object of beauty simultaneously. At home, they seek to capture something only you will know about a memorable hotel stay in Singapore, Paris or London – and soon there will be more places too! It is ‘Anouska’s hotel design for sale’ as Lucia van der Post of the Financial Times writes.  We have all been going through the most difficult months and situations no one could have ever dreamt of, so we hope to bring some romance and enjoyment back this way. In what ways have the incredible roster of hotels under your design belt – including Monsieur George, Blakes, The Franklin London, and The Duxton Reserve Singapore — inspired your new home collection?This collection is one that was born out of Blakes hotel when clients used to literally pay for their room stay and add two of our signature Yardstick lamps to their bill, which they then would get delivered to their homes in New York, for instance. Everyone always wanted a bit of Blakes, people would even take the restaurant’s teapots in their handbags. Sometimes I would spot things at friends’ homes. For example, Alice Cooper took home a pillow that Blakes had provided for his python to curl up on. Even the couture-made four-poster beds were ordered by customers on the way out of the hotel.  So, we sat around the table (remotely, during lockdown!) and created a collection which would echo people’s past travels to Paris, London and Singapore to give them the chance to have a bit of the Anouska Hempel’s hotel suite look at home. So far, the response has been great! We have included objects from the Paris hotel, Monsieur George, named after George Washington – the street where the Haussmann hotel is built on, The Duxton in Singapore, which is covered in the blacks and golds of the Orient, and the Franklin in London, which offers a cool and sophisticated city break.  Colour schemes and key design notes change in each location to replicate each city’s unique sense of place. In Paris, we have a magnitude of green hues in various textures, at The Duxton it is all about warm yellows, golds, cinnamon and oranges, and each theme brings a unique aspect of that location to life, through colours and design. Each hotel brings a little magic. Do you have a personal favourite piece in the range? If so – could you tell us why?As far as Hempel House and Hotel products go, the most popular piece is in each of the hotels is the signature Yardstick lamp, which is available in two sizes and in different colours. We are now looking at new pieces in the Hempel House and Hotel collection which draw on the inspirations of the new hotel concepts, so I will include the signature butler trays, Dutch mirrors and more.  In, Paris one of my favourite pieces are the green velvet chairs in the Galanga restaurant. I added a small ceramic black and white hand painted knob to the side of the chair, to hang the Parisian Hermès bags on during dinner! I greatly enjoyed working on The Duxton Reserve in Singapore, as it is steeped in Asian history and built from a row of former chop-houses. I had fun working with sourcing yellow pots, Asian artefacts, and highlighting the golds and yellows of Singapore, which all come together with layered Oriental screens, intricate wallpapers and great big mustard-yellow fans as large as the setting sun. These are also part of the Hempel House and Hotel collection and can hide a television or they can be used on the window, as in the Yellow Pot Café, instead of a curtain.  Talk us through your creative process. When designing a piece in your range – where do you begin?I begin by writing a story of how I see the design of a new concept come together. I research historical references, craftsmanship references, and look for small, obscure design details that will bring the concept to life.  What advice do you have for those looking to add a bit of the Anouska Hempel design flair to their own homes?Well, look at the new Hempel House and Hotels range. You can start with a screen! 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Anouska HempelMarcus binney. The first monograph on Anouska Hempel, one of the world’s most celebrated designers The savant of the visual, Anouska Hempel is revered across the world for her originality and for her influence. This is a designer who sees everything, and instinctively understands it. It might be a Japanese screen, or a Tudor portrait, an object, a fabric, a colour or a decorative technique. She may come to it innocently, but she will see exactly what it does, and how it does it. Yet that’s just where she starts. Take an inspiration; treat it with respect; understand its disciplines. Then transform it. The sparks from creative friction and an all-encompassing imagination mark out each of her designs as unmistakably her own. A first image goes galloping on to greatness elsewhere. As a designer, there are no limits to her domain. In her work, design becomes part of the natural order, apparently tamed at last. ‘Everything has its place, and there is a place for everything’, she says. And yet the process is never complete. Along with order, there is the mystery that comes from building the design in multiple layers and the restless creativity that is impelled to take perfection to new levels. There has never been a designer quite like Anouska Hempel, and this volume is both a celebration of her achievement and an intimate insight into it. In this astonishing book, we find her hotel creations, such as the two Blakes, the Hempel itself and Warapuru in Brazil, her private houses, including the incomparable Cole Park, her yacht and her garden designs – all the elements of a life of design.  'Fabulously opulent … a brilliant visual exploration of her work, a must for all those who love the voyeuristic pleasure of peeking into homes that are very much grander than their own' Country & Town House 'A must for all those who love the voyeuristic pleasure of peeking into homes … a fine text by Marcus Binney adds insight and analysis as to what makes Hempel’s designs so extraordinary' Lucia van der Post, Country and Townhouse 'The design publishing coup of the year … Binney, along with publishers Thames & Hudson, have pulled off a masterpiece. Sumptuous photography and elegant prose inform and delight and equal measure … With over 400 stunning colour photographs of interiors, architecture and gardens, this lavishly illustrated volume is itself a masterwork' TheGoodWebGuide.com Product InformationBook details. Format: PLC (with jacket) Size: 32.0 x 24.0 cm Extent: 288 pp Illustrations: 426 Publication date: 13 October 2014 ISBN: 9780500517697 Contents ListAbout the author, list of contributors, related topics, you may also like, luxury minimal, maison: christian liaigre, creative living: london. Yacht Charter Saint Petersburg - Yacht Rentals Saint PetersburgTop-rated yacht charters in saint petersburg - preselected yacht rentals:.  Sailboat Sun Odyssey 410 for rent in Vinoy Resort Marina
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Oranienbaum (Lomonosov)Still commonly known by its post-war name of Lomonosov, the estate at Oranienbaum is the oldest of the Imperial Palaces around St. Petersburg, and also the only one not to be captured by Nazi forces during the Great Patriotic War. Founded by Prince Menshikov, Peter the Great's closest adviser, the Grand Palace is one of the most opulent examples of Petrine architecture to have survived to the present, although until very recently the palace itself has been greatly neglected. After Menshikov's death, Oranienbaum passed to the state, and was used as a hospice until, in 1743, it was presented by Empress Elizabeth to her nephew, the future Peter III. Peter made Oranienbaum his official summer residence and transformed one corner of the park, ordering the construction of a "Joke" Castle and a small citadel manned by his Holstein guards. This peculiar ensemble, called Petershtadt, was mostly demolished during Pavel's reign. Antonio Rinaldi, the Italian-born architect who also designed the Grand Palace at Gatchina and the Marble Palace in St. Petersburg, was commissioned by Peter in 1758 to build a modest stone palace next to the fortress, and this has survived. After Peter was deposed, Rinaldi was commissioned by Catherine the Great to build the Chinese Palace, in the Upper Park, as her official country residence. However, Catherine spent little time at Oranienbaum, which she had grown to hate during her marriage to Peter, and by the end of the 18 th century the estate had been turned into a Naval Cadet College. The palace became an Imperial residence again in the reign of Alexander I, and retained that status until the Revolution, when it was immediately opened as a museum. Although never captured by the Germans, Oranienbaum was bombarded during the war and, while the Grand Menshikov Palace survived intact, its restoration was given much lower priority than the more famous estates at Peterhof and Tsarskoe Selo. Today, the small but elegant park has been almost completely restored, while the full restoration of the palaces has finally gained momentum over the last decade. We can help you make the right choice from hundreds of St. Petersburg hotels and hostels. Live like a local in self-catering apartments at convenient locations in St. Petersburg. Comprehensive solutions for those who relocate to St. Petersburg to live, work or study. Maximize your time in St. Petersburg with tours expertly tailored to your interests. Get around in comfort with a chauffeured car or van to suit your budget and requirements. Book a comfortable, well-maintained bus or a van with professional driver for your group. Navigate St. Petersburg’s dining scene and find restaurants to remember. Need tickets for the Mariinsky, the Hermitage, a football game or any event? We can help. Get our help and advice choosing services and options to plan a prefect train journey. Let our meeting and events experts help you organize a superb event in St. Petersburg. We can find you a suitable interpreter for your negotiations, research or other needs. Get translations for all purposes from recommended professional translators.  HEMPEL HOUSE & HOTELSHotel monsieur george - paris.  DUXTON RESERVE - SINGAPORE THE FRANKLIN HOTEL - LONDON |
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Legendary designer Anouska Hempel holidays in grand fashion—on her personal sailing boat, a traditional gulet with black sails. Anouska Hempel—or Lady Weinberg, as she is known in her private life—is dealing with a downpour. Or rather her crew is. This is the downside of having a boat, even if it is in the Mediterranean, off the coast of ...
DESIGN. The savant of the visual, Anouska Hempel is revered across the world for her originality and for her influence. This is a designer who sees everything, and instinctively understands it. Wherever the trade routes have passed or the trade winds have blown - that's her territory and at once you are thrown into a throng of creativity that ...
East Mediterranean. Weekly rate from. €42,000. What can we say? Mere superlatives are inadequate for this splendiferous yacht. Designed by the incomparable Anouska Hempel - of London's Blakes Hotel and The Hempel fame - Beluga 1 is just unbelievable. From her signature black sails to the exotic cane-furnished interior, she oozes class and style.
21 February 2011: This Summer, Dalmatian Destinations adds design doyenne Anouska Hempel's treasured gulet, BELUGA, to its portfolio of luxury yachts available to charter in Croatia and Montenegro. Whilst Anouska Hempel has received international acclaim for her iconic hotels, private residences and gardens, Beluga has - until now - been a well-kept secret, preserved only for use by ...
For enquiries please email: [email protected] and to visit our website go to: www.beluga1.euAn elegant wooden sailing vessel from the past, brought gl...
COMPLETION. Anouska Hempel's vision of a utopian world encompasses all elements of a life of design from landscapes, gardens, interiors and yachts to hotels, retail, couture and more. "I am influenced by art and travel, by how I'm pushed and pulled. I find inspiration in every corner - from museums to opera, from east to west and beyond.
Anouska Hempel's sumptuous yacht Beluga 1 is a stand-out in Porto Montenegro with interiors as exotic as its black sails. The 28-metre gulet Beluga 1 is available to charter for the first time.
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Spear's Review. Anouska Hempel is celebrated for her command of the Grand Manner - a design technique influenced by classical art, with 'calm intimacy and subtle layering'. One project of note - Hotel Monsieur George in Paris - brings the Bosphorus to Paris. Inspired by her Arabic and Lebanese connections, Hempel has created 'a Moroccan oasis' via dark-green details and lush ...
Her interior design is by Anouska Hempel. SOUNION II also features naval architecture by Benetti. Performance and Capabilities. SOUNION II has a top speed of 13.00 knots and a cruising speed of 11.50 knots. She is powered by a twin screw propulsion system. SOUNION II is a custom motor yacht launched in 1969 by Benetti and most recently refitted ...
Known for her wildly contrasting styles, actress-turned-designer Anouska Hempel - Sleeper's first and only cover star - tells Guy Dittrich about her new project in Paris and spreading magic wherever she goes. ... haute couture worn by British royalty and even yacht interiors. Her Instagram posts indicate a fondness for green spaces. "I ...
51K Followers, 115 Following, 965 Posts - Anouska Hempel Limited (@anouskahempeldesign) on Instagram: "The official account of international interior designer Anouska Hempel. Project inquiries email: [email protected]" ... Yachts. Interiors. Posts. Tagged. All aboard! This classic mahogany desk transforms into a children's bed Anouska ...
About Beluga One. Beluga One is a 27.13 m / 89′1″ luxury sailing yacht. She was built by Aegean in 1999. With a beam of 7 m She is powered by engines giving her a maximum speed of 14 knots and a cruising speed of 12 knots. The sailing yacht can accommodate 12 guests in 5 cabins. The yacht was designed by Anouska Hempel.
Anouska Hempel, Lady Weinberg (born December 1941) is a New Zealand-born film and television actress turned hotelier and interior designer. [2] She is sometimes credited as Anoushka Hempel. Early life. Hempel is of Russian and Swiss German ancestry and has speculated that she was born on a boat en route from Papua New Guinea to New Zealand. [3]
Following our fabulous stay at the Monsieur George, we sat down with the legendary Anouska Hempel herself and talk about the inspiration behind the hotel's design, her new Hempel House and Hotel Collection, and how her pieces can turn the home into a replica of our most beloved travel memories. Posted by FAIRWORLD 15/06/2022 News 349 Views.
The savant of the visual, Anouska Hempel is revered across the world for her originality and for her influence. This is a designer who sees everything, and instinctively understands it. ... her private houses, including the incomparable Cole Park, her yacht and her garden designs - all the elements of a life of design. Read More. Reviews
Discover The Hempel, a luxury hotel designed by Anouska Hempel, with a minimalist style and a zen-inspired garden.
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Oranienbaum (Lomonosov) Still commonly known by its post-war name of Lomonosov, the estate at Oranienbaum is the oldest of the Imperial Palaces around St. Petersburg, and also the only one not to be captured by Nazi forces during the Great Patriotic War. Founded by Prince Menshikov, Peter the Great's closest adviser, the Grand Palace is one of ...
HEMPEL HOUSE & HOTELS is a collection of unique and luxurious properties designed by Anouska Hempel, a renowned architect and interior designer. From London to Amsterdam, from Singapore to Paris, each hotel offers a distinctive style and atmosphere, blending elegance, comfort and sophistication. Discover the world of Hempel House & Hotels and book your stay today.