The Overlooked Experts – Designing Yachts with the End User in Mind – ISWAN Talking Point 2025
Meeli Lepik, founder and chief consultant of Holistic Yacht Interiors, discusses why it is essential to factor the needs and welfare of crew into the yacht design process.
It would be only natural that the space you design is one you can relate to, wouldn’t it? This makes perfect sense for guest areas of a superyacht as every yacht designer, while not perhaps having lived on board, has likely stayed in a luxury hotel or resort. However, apart from the occasional lunch in the crew mess, many designers simply don’t know – and can’t know – what it truly feels like to live and work on board. But that’s exactly the kind of knowledge we need.