Sailing in style: Cassina’s timeless classics

Brand story by Alyn Griffiths
Meda (Mi), Italy
02.05.23

For decades, Cassina has been furnishing private residences, hospitality spaces and more. Now, many of its timeless pieces have also found a new home on yachts and cruise liners – flooding cabins and sundecks with sophistication and innovation.

Design icons such as the Grand Confort armchairs add to the luxurious feel of the living spaces in Cassina’s Yachting Tales catalogue

Italian brand Cassina is globally renowned as a producer of iconic modernist furniture, as well as for its extensive range of innovative contemporary products. For almost 100 years, the company has developed and manufactured timeless classics that can be found in a wide range of prestigious settings including high-end residences, hotels, yachts and cruise liners.

Cassina’s vision of spaces furnished with contemporary pieces offers an alternative to the more conservative interiors found in many luxury yachts

With its new Yachting Tales catalogue, Cassina imagines how some of these products could be used to furnish the living spaces of various luxury superyachts. The images depict classic and contemporary pieces combining to create elegant interiors that represent an alternative to the conservative and traditional styling typical in the nautical sector.

Among the designs on display are the iconic 3 Fauteuil Grand Confort, grand modèle armchairs by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, which are shown in a stylish living space alongside the contemporary Mex Hi sofa and coffee table by Piero Lissoni. Other design icons that are ideally suited to life on board these floating palaces include the Committee Chair and Capitol Complex Table, Hommage à Pierre Jeanneret, which are shown forming a stunning dining suite. The low-slung and invitingly curvaceous Lady armchair by Marco Zanuso provides an ideal seat for gazing out to sea, while Charlotte Perriand’s Refolo sofa-bench pairs perfectly with the Sestiere vase by Patricia Urquiola, creating playful shadows as summer sun floods the cabin.

Classic pieces such as Marco Zanuso’s Lady armchair and the modular Refolo system by Charlotte Perriand complement contemporary designs

Yachting Tales demonstrates how Cassina’s iconic and expertly crafted furniture is a perfect fit for 21st-Century superyachts. The company’s Custom Interiors division regularly partners with top architects and designers to specify furniture for bespoke projects, drawing on decades of experience in the field of nautical design that includes interiors for several luxury cruise ships. Such rich and varied history is key to Cassina’s contemporary offering and continues to inform the firm’s design direction as it sails towards its upcoming centenary.

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