Carlo Sciarrelli, 10 years later. Our remembrance of one of Italy’s greatest designers
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It hasbeen exactly ten years since one of the greatest designers in the history of Italy, Carlo Sciarrelli , left us. Born in Trieste on July 6, 1934, he graduated from theIndustrial Technical Institute. The son of a railroader, he worked as a stoker manning trains for the State Railway.
He frequented the docks of the Adriaco Yachting Club since he was a boy, suffering the fascination of boats. He began edging around the Gulf of Trieste with a snipe, a drift that allowed him to take ownership of the secrets of navigation.
But he is not satisfied, he is not only interested in sailing he wants to understand the boats, the shape of the hulls, their behavior at sea. A lifelong journey of knowledge begins for him, and as a self-taught student he studies and analyzes every aspect of the things that interest him.
His first work as a designer dates back to 1959: he restored for himself a “passera “built on theisland of Krk in the 1930s, Aspasia.
With the savings he designed and built in 1960 his first boat, the .
Amphitrite
. The boat is doing well, winning almost every regatta it participates in. And Charles is commissioned to design a new project by one of his racing rivals. Thus begins his story as a designer, architect, yacht designer. In his lifetime he has designed about 140 boats, and from his designs more than 400 boats have been built all over the world.
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Behind his desk was always a strip of paper with the 137 names of his boats listed, only on some, however, was there an asterisk, that is, where his design had achieved the synthesis of utility and beauty.
“The beautiful is not new, the new is not beautiful”
he used to say. In fact, his entire work as a yacht designer has been connoted by the pursuit of “beauty.”
In 2003 he receives the Laurea ad Honorem in Architecture from the University of Venice and in the same year received the civic merit from the City of Trieste with the following motivation: “for having contributed through his work to spreading the value and name of the city of Trieste and its tradition for yachting throughout the world. His creations brought naval architecture design closer to the threshold of art.”
To remember him, a new boat has been launched in the Upper Adriatic Shipyards, which so many of his projects he built.
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