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New wave

Miminat Shodeinde’s interiors for the private M/Y K vessel signal a change in tide for yacht design

From a slick penthouse in Cape Town, professional portfolio as she completes Shodeinde: suddenly she found herself
South Africa, to a contemporary country the fit-out for M/Y K, a 131ft private yacht. having to navigate the space limitations
residence in Gloucestershire, England, The yacht’s owner commissioned imposed by even a superyacht’s quarters,
British-Nigerian designer Miminat Shodeinde London-based Shodeinde in the summer and consider how pieces of decor could
has worked on the interiors of a wealth of 2022, and although she wasn’t familiar impact stability, weight distribution, and
of different residences since launching with creating spaces for the water, it was performance at sea. “It was such a learning
her studio, Miminat Designs, in 2015. She an opportunity she couldn’t let go adrift. curve, especially when it came to all of the
has also created an array of sculptural “I love what I do and want to try designing marine, boating, and yacht lingo,” she adds.
furnishings and objets d’art, and has everything and anything,” she says. “But overall it doesn’t really differ from
several architecture projects underway The interiors will be installed in the latter designing spaces on land—you’re essentially
in Portugal, India, and beyond. Now, half of this year, the culmination of a design trying to create moving art that caters
Shodeinde is diversifying her impressive process that came with new challenges for to the brief and the desires of the client.”

Photos: Armand Da Silva, courtesy of Miminat Designs.

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