Venus, Kapal Buatan Steve Jobs, Berlayar Untuk Pertama Kalinya

Setelah sebelumnya foto kapal pesiar yang dibuat oleh Steve Jobs dan desainer kenamaan Phillipe Starck merebak, kini kapal itu diketahui telah mengarungi samudera untuk pertama kalinya.

Diberitakan oleh SWNS.com, kapal tersebut kini sudah meninggalkan pelabuhannya di Rotterdam, Belanda. Fotografer Hans Esveldt berhasil mengabadikan momen tersebut.

Dan berdasarkan wawancara yang dilakukan oleh Starck dengan SuperYachTime, ia mengatakan bahwa dirinya telah menerima sebuah hak khusus dari Jobs untuk mendesain kapal tersebut sesuai dengan seleranya. Tidak heran, jika dalam waktu yang cenderung singkat, model kapal dan rencana pembuatan telah selesai dalam waktu 2 minggu saja. Ia juga mengatakan bahwa Jobs memberikan sebuah hadiah yang sangat mengesankan kepadanya.

“From the beginning, I had complete carte blanche”, Starck starts out “The owner just gave me the length and the number of guests he wanted to accommodate, and that was it. In our very first meeting we had little time to speak, so I told him, I will design it, as if it is for myself. The owner replied that that would be perfect for him. This is how we were able to design the project so fast, in just two weeks we delivered the plans, and a ship model”. “The owner was very rigorous, but he rewarded me with the best gift someone can give a designer; he told me “it is better than in all my dreams”… Which for him was a lot! ”

“We spent just one day every six weeks, for 5 years, on refinements. Millimetre by millimetre. Detail by Detail”

Starck sedikit memberikan gambaran bagian dalam dari kapal tersebut:

“Inside, we used loose furniture, but left it very open. The owners have to live their own life, so it was mostly done by them. It is the minimum of everything. There is not a single useless item inside…. Not a single useless pillow, or a useless object. In that sense, It is the opposite of other boats. Other boats try to show off more and more. Venus is revolutionary. It is the extreme opposite.”

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