96m motor yacht Palladium designed by Michael Leach Design has received four Golden Neptunes at the prominent annual ShowBoats Design Awards at The Mar-o-Largo Club in Palm Beach. Blohm + Voss Palladium (ex ORCA) superyacht won in four categories, including interior and exterior, tender and bespoke furniture.
96m motor yacht Palladium designed by Michael Leach Design
Michael Leach Design’s 96m Palladium superyacht is described by editors as “a new species entirely”, its organic exterior form totally in harmony with the living spaces it surrounds and creates. Unique and practical features abound from the main deck swimming pool and sports deck plus direct link to the spa. The flexibility of the lifting bulwarks allows “more combinations than a Rubik’s cube”, protecting the fleet of jetbikes in choppy seas. Michael Leach Design’s brief from the experienced owner was for “excellence and overhead space.”
Leach and Smith, who spent five years developing every aspect of the 96m Blohm + Voss luxury yacht Palladium with painstaking attention to detail, pulled together specialists including eight-times world offshore champion Steve Curtis MBE (also present at the awards) for the 40-knot Cougar yacht tender, plus Silverlining and Metrica for the furniture and fitting out respectively.
Four Golden Neptunes from ShowBoats Design Awards for 96m luxury yacht Palladium
Michael Leach Design, whose motor yacht design portfolio includes the 62m Amels luxury charter yacht Solemar and 67m Feadship super yacht Anna, has won awards before but winning four in one go is unprecedented. Michael Leach Design also designed the interior of the newly-launched world´s largest 44m sailing catamaran Hemisphere.
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