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Martin Francis is an accomplished British designer and architect with decades of experience working on some of the most iconic yachts on the water.

Prolific in a number of spheres of art and design including cruise liners and architecture, Francis' work in yachting is perhaps best known for the realisation of Motor Yacht A's famous inverted bow. Also distinguished for his skilful use and manipulation of glass, Francis attributes his early inspiration to discovering Brunel in the London Science Museum as a child. 

Francis' work in yachting was born from a deeply ingrained passion for sailing. After studying furniture design at Central Saint Martin's and a colourful stint going on tour with the Rolling Stones, Francis designed and built his own 14 metre sailing sloop named Prototype. The speed of his own invention was the catalyst for Francis' commission on a number of projects, and not long after came the birth of M/Y Eco (now Zeus) - and with it, a transformation of standards and innovation for the world of yachting, spearheaded by Francis Design. 

Waving the flag for British design on the global stage, Francis' work from the 80s and 90s retains a timeless edge today, and 75m motor yacht Eco is still considered the fastest large yacht of its kind at 35 knots. Other notable works include Golden Shadow and the Mercedes Benz Silver Arrow 460, during which Gorden Wagener (head of design at Daimler AG) commented of the cooperation with Martin Francis, 'He is widely regarded as one of the best in his industry and is a super nice guy.'

Outside of yachting, Martin Francis is at home in a multiplicity of creative spheres. Having formed the RFR engineering and architecture practice in Paris with Peter Rice, he is also renowned for his incredible glasswork on the Louvre Pyramid.

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THE MAN BEHIND SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST PIONEERING YACHTS SPEAKS TO BRIAN NOONE ABOUT HIS DECADES-LONG CAREER, HIS CURRENT AND FUTURE PROJECTS AND THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRY

“My career has always been mixing the disciplines,” says Martin Francis, a designer for whom eclecticism is not merely a buzzword but a way of life. Now approaching 50 years in the industry, the London-born jack-of-all-trades has something like the Midas touch, transforming every venture into a forward-looking masterstroke that leaves his peers grasping for his coattails. The latest launch is rumoured to be a 123m yacht Golden Odyssey built by Lürssen about which Francis is unable to reveal any details other than she has been delivered and is on her maiden voyage, and he his currently working, he says, “on a number of new projects for very large vessels” as well as the entirely land-based headquarters for the design firm Vitsœ in Britain.

Part of Francis’s continued success is project selection – he chooses only opportunities that grab his interest – but his groundbreaking innovations are principally a result of his childlike curiosity and supernatural talent for solving spatial puzzles. Coming out of London’s Central St Martins in the 1960s, Francis first crafted furniture and then worked on an building with a young architect named Norman Foster: the outcome was the Willis Building in Ipswich, one of the early high tech buildings that in 1991 was Britain’s youngest to receive Grade I listing. Francis was a production manager for the Rolling Stones in the early 1970s and while assisting on other architecture proposals was involved with a roster of young designers that include Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Jean Prouvé. His best-known terrestrial work was done with Peter Rice in devising the cable-stayed glass walls at France’s largest science museum, the Cité des Sciences in Paris, a building whose influence can still be seen in glass-fronted buildings round the globe.

Yet for all this variation – and there’s much more, including teaming up with American artist Frank Stella, aiding on the Louvre pyramid and now collaborating with Swarovksi on jewel-encrusted surfaces that defy all expectations – Francis’s renown comes primarily from his yachts. “Compared to my peer group, I have actually built very few megayachts,” he says, and it is true, but the yachts he has built, as well as concepts such as Sultan and Crystal Ball , have changed the industry in unparalleled ways.

His first boat, a 14m sloop, was built in the south of France with the intention of cruising round the world with his young family. “It was very light and went rather fast,” he remembers – so fast that while testing it in the Mediterranean, other sailors were so impressed by that “I had six boats commissioned on the strength of this one,” he says. The commissions grew is size and scope and in 1981, Francis recalls, “I had the two largest sloops in the world match racing in Sardinia – and those boats are still sailing with the same rig, the same masts that I designed.”

The boat he’s best known for is one of the most influential motor yachts ever made: Eco . Mexican businessman Emilio Azcárraga’s approached him for a motor yacht design, a first for Francis. Azcárraga rejected the initial idea immediately and pushed Francis to create something truly new. The 73.5m result, since renamed Enigma by its current owner, was so remarkably cutting edge, with its needle-nose bow and what Francis calls its “bug-eyed windows”, that Francis “had no other inquires about a similar motor yacht for eight years”.

And then the industry caught up, and his inbox has been flooded with requests ever since. He created Senses , the 59m explorer yacht owned by Larry Page of Google. He designed the eye-catching, angular 315m cruise ship, Celebrity Solstice , and he was naval architect for 119m A , whose inverted bow and extraordinary lines make it one of most distinctive yachts of this century.

Looking toward the future, Francis notes that builders of boats under 50m were “hit very hard”, while “the very big market is full. Lürssen has a very large order book: I’ve been discussing with them recently and they’re talking about a 2021 delivery.”

But as the boats get bigger – or much smaller – Francis sees significant areas for improvement: “I don’t think there’s much revolutionary likely to happen,” he says, “but there are incremental changes.” Above all, “most yachts have pretty inefficient hulls, like comparing a Cessna to a modern glider.” It doesn’t need to be so drastic. In the case of the largest yachts, “clients are often poorly advised,” he says. “You can spend $1m on tank testing and you could very well save that in one year, maybe two, on fuel economy.”

Cleaner engines, too, are on the horizon and, like his already well-established and diversified career, perhaps Francis will find further ways to intermingle his various experiences into new designs. If history is any guide, he surely will.

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Francis Design

Martin Francis is an accomplished British designer and architect with decades of experience working on some of the most iconic yachts on the water.

Prolific in a number of spheres of art and design including cruise liners and architecture, Francis' work in yachting is perhaps best known for the realisation of Motor Yacht A's famous inverted bow. Also distinguished for his skilful use and manipulation of glass, Francis attributes his early inspiration to discovering Brunel in the London Science Museum as a child. 

Francis' work in yachting was born from a deeply ingrained passion for sailing. After studying furniture design at Central Saint Martin's and a colourful stint going on tour with the Rolling Stones, Francis designed and built his own 14 metre sailing sloop named Prototype. The speed of his own invention was the catalyst for Francis' commission on a number of projects, and not long after came the birth of M/Y Eco (now Zeus) - and with it, a transformation of standards and innovation for the world of yachting, spearheaded by Francis Design. 

Waving the flag for British design on the global stage, Francis' work from the 80s and 90s retains a timeless edge today, and 75m motor yacht Eco is still considered the fastest large yacht of its kind at 35 knots. Other notable works include Golden Shadow and the Mercedes Benz Silver Arrow 460, during which Gorden Wagener (head of design at Daimler AG) commented of the cooperation with Martin Francis, 'He is widely regarded as one of the best in his industry and is a super nice guy.'

Outside of yachting, Martin Francis is at home in a multiplicity of creative spheres. Having formed the RFR engineering and architecture practice in Paris with Peter Rice, he is also renowned for his incredible glasswork on the Louvre Pyramid.

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.

Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA

Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova  (Moscow, Russian Federation).  (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Kharis Mustafin  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Irina Alborova  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Alina Matzvai  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected]

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Martin Francis is delighted to have been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Superyacht Design Festival 2020 that took place in Cortina, Italy, over the weekend. The accolade is judged by industry peers, and was granted in recognition of Francis’ contribution to the yacht industry as a pioneering designer and innovator.

“I am honoured and grateful to my peers for this award. It’s a great privilege to be recognised in this way by my colleagues,” Francis says.

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  1. About

    Martin Francis' first motor yacht commission was Eco, since renamed Katana, Enigma, and Zeus, for Emilio Azcárraga in 1991. Her innovative design and unequalled speed was the springboard which launched Francis Design into motor yachts.

  2. FRANCIS DESIGN (MARTIN FRANCIS)

    Martin Francis is an accomplished British designer and architect with decades of experience working on some of the most iconic yachts on the water. Prolific in a number of spheres of art and design including cruise liners and architecture, Francis' work in yachting is perhaps best known for the realisation of Motor Yacht A's famous inverted bow.

  3. Motor Yacht A

    Motor Yacht A is a 119-metre luxury motor yacht conceived by Philippe Starck and engineered by Martin Francis, she was delivered in 2008 to international acclaim. With a capacity for 14 guests and a crew of 37, she reaches speeds of up to 23 knots and leaves a minimal wake.

  4. Martin Francis Yacht Design

    A versatile multi-disciplinary designer, Martin Francis worked on a variety of different projects, from architectural projects to yacht design since 1988.

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    Martin became labeled as "the glass man." Indeed, as a creative person, Francis enjoys working in many disciplines other than yacht design where he has made his mark with such well-known projects as the 240' Eco (subsequently named Katana now Enigma).

  6. Lunch with superyacht designer Martin Francis

    Our lunch with Martin Francis breaks new ground: first, the Briton is a designer not an owner of superyachts, most notably of the iconic Eco. And second - we are not meeting at a restaurant. Francis lives and works in his beautiful contemporary home, perched on the escarpment that rises from the Mediterranean towards the Alpes-Maritimes ...

  7. IN CONVERSATION WITH MARTIN FRANCIS

    The boat he's best known for is one of the most influential motor yachts ever made: Eco. Mexican businessman Emilio Azcárraga's approached him for a motor yacht design, a first for Francis. Azcárraga rejected the initial idea immediately and pushed Francis to create something truly new. The 73.5m result, since renamed Enigma by its current owner, was so remarkably cutting edge, with its ...

  8. Iconic yachts: Inside the story of the radical superyacht Zeus

    Iconic yachts: The vision behind the radical 74.5m superyacht Zeus. When Martin Francis was commissioned to design Eco, now Zeus, - his first motor yacht - in 1991, the brief from experienced owner Emilio Azcárraga was for a 55 to 60 metre superyacht capable of 25 knots. But after two years' work that produced everything except the ...

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    Universally known as one of the best designers in the industry, Martin Francis' love for yachting came from his long-standing passion for sailing. Even though his first creation was just a 14m sailing yacht, Francis has come to design some of the most unique and innovative superyachts of up to 123m. His work on Zeus (formerly Eco) is still being talked about as it remains the fastest yacht ...

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    The founder of the now world-famous Francis Design studio, Martin Francis, began his career as a cabinetmaker, and his love of the sea came later, starting with his studies at a yacht school and buying a sailboat, then developing and building the first boat for himself, which was called Prototype, followed by Prototypehad and the first orders.

  11. Francis Design

    Martin Francis is an accomplished British designer and architect with decades of experience working on some of the most iconic yachts on the water. Prolific in a number of spheres of art and design including cruise liners and architecture, Francis' work in yachting is perhaps best known for the realisation of Motor Yacht A's famous inverted bow.

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    The Sailing yacht Diablesse is unquestionably one of the most iconic sailing yachts ever built. Designed by Martin Francis and built by Tréhard, Diablesse is a modern classic. Following a complete refit in 2016/2017, DIABLESSE is presented in immaculate condition.

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    Francis Design is a company of luxury yacht naval architects Martin Francis of London. The company is one of the foremost successful luxury yacht design studios in the world. Francis has been designing the ultimate luxury yachts for more than 25 years around the world; first in France, then near Nice, and now back in the UK since 2002.

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