AXIOMA

AXIOMA is the yacht Alberto Pinto never saw finished. The French decorator died in 2012 and his studio completed her interior to his drawings, so she stands as his final word on yachts. The idea behind her is height: rather than stacking one saloon on top of another, Pinto opened two decks into a single room, with a gallery running around its aft end and about six metres between floor and ceiling. The bar sits underneath that gallery, and the whole space reads more like a loft apartment than a boat.

The outside is just as distinctive. Sterling Scott drew the profile, Tanju Kalaycioglu handled the naval architecture, and the turquoise hull makes her easy to pick out in any harbour. Aft on the main deck, loungers surround a pool on three sides, and its edge spills over just above the surface of the sea. Children tend to spend whole days there, and when the group swims off the stern a floating enclosure keeps jellyfish at a distance.

Two layout decisions set her apart. The owner's suite has a deck to itself: full beam, with a study, two bathrooms and a terrace you step onto straight from the bedroom, and a slide from that same deck drops into the sea. Then the wellness rooms (a gym, a treatment room for massages and a steam cabin) went high up on the bridge deck, where they get daylight and a view, instead of below the waterline. Next to them, the bridge deck Jacuzzi has a bar you can swim up to. Whoever takes the VIP gets the whole width of the forward end of the main deck, which suits a second couple who want some distance from the hosts.

Evenings have their own rooms: an eight-seat cinema that also works for a meeting, and a piano lounge with a grand piano. In the water she is an approved RYA training centre, so guests can earn a jet-ski licence during the week, and she carries diving gear for eight. She received a judges' commendation at the 2014 World Superyacht Awards and went through a major refit at MB92 in Barcelona in 2025.

She makes sense for a big family, or two families together, with grandparents, teenagers and toddlers all wanting different things at once. A couple or a small group would rattle around in her, and anyone who prefers a discreet, classic look should know that the hull is meant to be noticed.