With 39 years of experience under its belt, the Silverlining team has 70 designers, craftspeople, and engineers who make many of the extraordinary furniture pieces you see aboard custom yachts. In fact, the top superyacht designers in the UK, Europe, and the United States rely on the company’s precision and creativity. How these pieces come to life, though, typically remains unseen even by most owners. So, come with us inside the Silverlining superyacht furnishings studio to see how hand drawing, hand craftsmanship, and high tech make it all happen.
Silverlining furniture fuses tradition and innovation in a few ways. The time-honored art of sketching ideas on a piece of paper is as crucial today as it was centuries ago. It helps the design team flesh out the ideas inside their clients’ heads—whether the client is the yacht owner’s designer or an owner personally. (On a related note, the company works with private clients worldwide for their homes as well. Therefore, it’s not unusual to find certain pieces aboard yachts that echo the ones on land.) Besides sketching, the Silverlining team regularly pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with 3D printing and specialized carving and cutting. Altogether, the techniques afford shapes, styles, and materials you simple cannot find otherwise.
What makes this inside-the-studio peek especially notable, though, are the glimpses at the new Silverlining superyacht furnishings collection. Infinite Possibilities brings together a host of materials in entirely unexpected ways. For instance, you’ll see the craft of turning straw, a seemingly modest material, into something quite extraordinary. In a piece called the Pixel Matrix, a craftsperson cuts and glues small pieces custom-dyed in hues of green and blue. The finely detailed straw marquetry creates a stunning, contemporary surface design. But that’s not all. Coach hide leather, embossed with a cubist pattern, complements the color pops of the straw. It adds depth, too, creating a 3D effect.
More Infinite Possibilities pieces appear in various stages and forms. They’re all on the Silverlining website for you to delve into further, and discuss with the designers and your team.
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