Is that this the world’s most inviting ocean residence?

In summer time 2026, Spanish architect Patricia Urquiola’s distinctive imaginative and prescient will embark on the excessive seas. Recent from a number of current hospitality tasks – together with her suite designs for the Jumeirah Capri Palace and Il Sereno – Urquiola has simply introduced her newest collaboration with the posh ocean-travel model Explora Journeys. She has authored the design of the ship’s ultra-exclusive Proprietor’s Residence, a spacious luxurious dwelling area with 180-degree views.

Patricia Urquiola designs unique residence for Explora Journeys

When Explora Journeys was launched in 2021, it debuted as a brand new luxurious cruise enterprise from the Italian transport firm MSC Group. The model was based by the Neapolitan Aponte household, whose historical past within the maritime world reaches again to the seventeenth century. Explora organises multi-day and week-long journeys that target tradition, surroundings and wellness, in locations as far-flung as Alaska, the Mediterranean and the Arabian Peninsula. Now, with the addition of Urquiola to the fold, the model is positioning itself to enchantment to an viewers with an appreciation for classy design.

Urquiola, who has been designing hospitality areas because the opening of the Mandarin Oriental Barcelona in 2010, notes that each the selection of supplies and the configuration of the area required a distinct strategy resulting from its maritime setting and fixed movement. ‘The area is all the time shifting, so you actually need to create a fluid transition between the completely different areas of the suite,’ she explains. ‘And for a similar purpose, you’re more likely to succeed in out and contact the partitions, so we selected finishes which are heat and alluring, but extremely tactile.’

For the furnishings, she chosen a number of items from the Milanese furnishings model Cassina, for whom she has served as artistic director since 2015. She additionally designed customized parts, together with a 3D-printed chandelier made out of recycled plastic, conceived to echo the type of a ship’s sail.