23/10/2026
The spa used to be two mud tanks.
Mystère Shadow, 50 metres: a 1981 oil-rig supply vessel from the Gulf of Mexico, refitted in nine months at Monaco Marine, La Ciotat, 2010-2011. Below deck, two mud tanks, port and starboard, joined by a passage from the engine room: the one space on a working boat nobody had a use for. We opened them into one room: hammam, Jacuzzi, sauna and massage room in the four corners, the centre left free.
The hammam: white Carrara marble in mosaic on walls and ceiling, the sink cut from a single block, fibre optics above. The light changes colour. The stone does not.
Two worlds built that room. The structure and the joinery came from a builder of cruise-ship interiors: a different cost scale from the superyacht world. The last layer, the one the owner sees and touches, is marble and stone from one of my superyacht suppliers. I have combined the two many times since. It is how a job can look like this and still make sense.
Then, in order: the first sketch of the lounge, October 2010. The yard in February 2011, the tanks already cut open. A sheet of paper I drew on site, to explain how the stone had to be built. The lounge finished. The hammam.
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Exterior and interior design: Pastrovich Studio · Shipyard: Monaco Marine · Naval architecture: Robert McFarlane · Spa structure and joinery: MJM Marine · Photos: Toni Meneguzzo, tonimeneguzzo.com · Yard photo and sketches: Pastrovich Studio · Italian design