5 highlights from Salone Nautico, a scaled-down yacht present with an area focus

Genoa’s Salone Nautico isn’t the boating trade’s largest showcase – that title is held by its rival to the west, the Monaco Yacht Present, which follows it by scarcely every week each September. However the extra modestly-scaled, primarily domestic-market exhibition within the historical Mediterranean port metropolis has a number of crucial issues going for it, particularly for design fans: for one factor, it’s a distant cousin of Milan’s Salone del Cellular, and attracts on among the similar organisational firepower (Salone president Maria Porro has been an everyday attendee and design-prize decide).

Extra importantly, whereas Monte Carlo might have the larger boats, Genoa will get a extra various pool of exhibitors, who present up with a wider array of oddball and progressive gear for the maritime commerce. As an added plus, the entire operation takes place on the Levante waterfront, a part of Renzo Piano’s (still-ongoing) redevelopment scheme for his beloved hometown. Intriguing, often glamorous, at all times genuine, the choices at this 12 months’s sixty fifth Salone Nautico have been an ideal match for Genoa itself.