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August 23 2021

23 Aug 2021

BOAT OF THE WEEK: INSIDE MALCOLM FORBES'S ICONIC 'HIGHLANDER,' ONCE THE ULTIMATE '80S PARTY YACHT.

This Bannenberg-designed 162-footer hosted everyone from rock stars to world leaders. After a major refit, she's now looking for a new owner.

If these teak decks could talk. Paul McCartney tinkling the ivory keyboard. Elizabeth Taylor sunning herself on the top deck. Margaret Thatcher discussing world peace with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Harrison Ford taking a turn at the wheel.

Back in the 1980s, an invitation from Forbes magazine owner and consummate bon vivant , Malcolm Forbes, to join him aboard his beloved superyacht The Highlander was a reason for celebration.

And Forbes was a master when it came to celebrating. His first of many Fourth of July parties aboard The Highlander , anchored off Governors Island in New York Harbor, saw the world’s greatest movers and shakers piped aboard by tartan-clad Scottish bagpipers.

There on the yacht’s decks were the likes of Fiat boss Gianni Agnelli, Henry and Nancy Kissinger, David and Peggy Rockefeller and Brooke Astor. More than 150 Maine lobsters and 30 pounds of Scottish smoked salmon were reportedly flown in to feed the elite crowd.

During the five years Forbes owned the yacht, before his death in 1990, she traveled the globe; everywhere from then Communist China, to Bora-Bora, to Thailand, the Philippines and Alaska.

Launched in 1985, this was the last of five Forbes-owned yachts named The Highlander, after his family’s Scottish roots. But this one was unique. Designed by world-renowned designer Jon Bannenberg and built in Holland by Feadship, her dark green hull—said to be the color of dollar bills—stretched 162 feet bow to stern.

“She was nicknamed ‘The Ultimate Capitalist Tool’ for good reason,” the yacht’s current owner, New York-based interior designer Joanne de Guardiola told Robb Report . “Anyone who was anyone stepped aboard at some time during the ’80s.”

De Guardiola and her husband, investment banker Roberto de Guardiola, bought The Highlander from the Forbes estate back in 2012. And just as she’d done with the couple’s previous Feadship, the classic 159-foot Audacia , de Guardiola commissioned a top-to-bottom refit, this time with Florida’s Derecktor Shipyards.

“We had no thoughts of buying another yacht; we loved Audacia. But back in 2012, we had heard The Highlander was for sale and I went to take a look. She was not in great shape, but as a huge fan of Jon Bannenberg’s designs, and knowing her amazing history, we couldn’t resist,” she said.

The exhaustive, two-year refit took the steel and aluminum superyacht down to the studs. The yacht was extended by 12 feet to add a swim deck and rear “garage” for water toys; the top deck was lengthened. Effectively doubling its size, and the master stateroom was moved to where the observatory used to be.

The entire interior was redesigned and refitted with more modern materials and finishes. Out went the padded leather ceilings, the somber, dark green carpets and ornate Chippendale antique chairs; in went bleached-white Anigre paneling, wide-planked dark wood flooring, and brightly colored pop art.

One especially jaw-dropping feature de Guardiola created was the stunning, open-tread marble staircase from salon to upper deck. That and the new, glass-enclosed sky lounge with its disco vibe and blue onyx floor.

“The yacht didn’t really suit a family’s needs—she was really designed for Malcolm Forbes-style corporate entertaining,” says de Guardiola. “And if you wanted to splash in the water, you had to jump over the sides. Mr. Forbes didn’t like to swim.”

But de Guardiola is quick to add that her primary focus with the refit was evolving and not compromising Jon Bannenberg’s iconic design. “That’s what attracted me to the yacht in the first place.”

Mechanical improvements included the installation of Quantum zero speed stabilizers and full rebuilds for the trusty 900 hp Detroit Diesels. They still give the yacht a top speed of 18 mph, cruising at an easy 14 mph with transatlantic capability.

With kids in mind, Highlander —de Guardiola dropped the “the” —is brimming with water toys. Everything from Waverunners, Seabobs, banana floats and kayaks, to Malcolm Forbes’ much-loved, Ferrari-red 22-foot Donzi speedboat. Sadly, his other favorite, a custom-built Cigarette Racing powerboat, is no more. After being fully restored during the refit, the boat caught fire while Highlander was anchored off the Amalfi Coast in Italy.

“My husband was just heading off with our daughter and friends when the fire broke out,” de Guardiola says. “Everyone ended up in the water but were okay. It was one cool boat. It ran at over 60 mph.”

Since the refit, the de Guardiolas have taken friends and family all around the Mediterranean, hanging out at the Monaco Grand Prix, Cannes Film Festival, and hitting most of the Greek islands. Winters were in the Caribbean. Typically, they spent eight to 10 weeks a year aboard.

So why the decision to sell? De Guardiola says she’s looking for her next project: “As with my interior design work, I love the intellectual challenge of a makeover. It’s also time. We feel we’ve been good custodians. Now someone else should enjoy her.”

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Victor Muller's classic superyacht The Highlander

Victor Muller on the refit of his classic superyacht The Highlander

Refitting his classic 1967 Feadship superyacht The Highlander with a celebrated history was a testing experience for Victor Muller. The Dutch sports-car magnate tells Stewart Campbell and Sacha Bonsor what he learnt in the process.

Profound epiphanies don’t often happen in garages in southern Holland, but when superyacht owner Victor Muller visited an oily workshop in 1983, the occasion was formative. “Sonny,” said an 80-year-old mechanic with a funny accent, “let me tell you something about the human eye… it only notices imperfection.”

Muller was a 24-year-old lawyer and had taken his car in to get the bumpers chromed. “What do you see?” the man asked. Nothing, thought Muller. “Look closer, look properly,” the man pressed.

And then he saw it, a tiny imperfection in the metalwork. “He was right,” Muller says over tea in London’s Connaught Hotel. “That blemish became all I could see. If you walk into a room and everything is fine but there’s a socket hanging from the wall, the socket’s the only thing you remember. You have to have a design so flowing that your eye doesn’t stop. That’s what I learned from an 80-year-old chromer in Holland.”

That brief moment informed everything the 54-year-old Dutch millionaire went on to accomplish: running the biggest tugboat fleet in the world, starting supercar company Spyker and amassing an enviable collection of classic cars. All of the excruciating adherence to detail, design and quality has been done with a nod to that old man, says Muller, and nowhere is this more apparent than in his latest project: the refitting of classic 1967 Feadship The Highlander .

This 37 metre icon of Dutch boatbuilding has been impressively redesigned by Muller in the US, creating something sublimely seamless. “A good design is only pleasing to the eye when it’s consistent everywhere, with one design language throughout the yacht,” he says. “I have a hard time reconciling how, on some boats, you walk from a Louis XVI room into an art deco space and on to modern realism. With my yacht, I tried to make it as consistent as possible. It’s very smooth, very calm. Nothing is flashy. It takes three things to build a brand, or a boat: consistency, consistency, consistency.”

It’s clear within minutes of meeting Muller that he’s a fanatic; whether it’s cars, boats or helicopters (he has recently learnt to fly one), his interest and enthusiasm for everything he does is extreme. “I could say car before I could say mummy,” he says, proudly. “She’s still a little upset about that!”

At the height of his auto obsession, around 1997, he owned 50 classic cars, but that’s now down to a slightly more manageable 18. Following a series of Lancias in the 1970s, he bought his first true sports car, a Maserati, in 1983, after borrowing money from his grandmother.

This infatuation wasn’t inherited – his dad had “terrible taste” in cars, a point Muller could not let go even after his father’s death: “In my eulogy, I reproached him for driving a Ford Cortina. And a big, ugly Opal Kapitan. Oh, God, and then he started buying American cars. When I was 12, I forced him out of American cars because it was an embarrassment. So he bought a Volvo 244 GLE, still a tank but at least it was a decent car. Then he started buying BMW 7 Series. This is when our relationship improved.”

"It takes three things to build a brand, or a boat: consistency, consistency, consistency."

Victor Muller

For Muller, this gradual move up the car-quality league table reached its apotheosis in 1997 when, having left law to successfully revive a number of businesses, he bought classic Dutch car-maker Spyker. In the early 20th century, this manufacturer was a big deal, building state coaches, planes and rally cars that took part in Victorianesque adventures from “Peking to Paris”, but it ceased trading in 1925.

Seventy-five years later the brand was back, with Muller at the helm, displaying the C8 Spyker concept at the Birmingham Motor Show. “I was buying new Astons and Ferraris and they were so poorly built in the 1990s. And I thought, as a classic car collector, that there must be a way to bring back the craftsmanship of the golden age of car manufacturing, from, say, 1925 to 1955. Hand built, nothing but pure materials, no plastics, no cheap shit. I thought that must be possible, so that’s what I did,” he says.

Every single Spyker starts life in Muller’s head; he just draws what he loves. “I’m very visual, I know exactly what the car’s going to look like, and I have a young guy who translates it into 3D drawings. The design of our latest car, the Venator, we did in 22 days from a drawing I did on a napkin in China.”

Muller has no formal training in design, and attributes his love of aesthetics to his upbringing. He grew up in comparative wealth, largely thanks to his father’s successful accounting firm (eventually sold to Ernst & Young) and the money was spent educating him and his sister on beauty. They were regularly taken to Italy, for example, where Victor soaked up la dolce vita: “I’m so old I actually know what that means. This was the time of (legendary Italian film director Federico) Fellini, so yeah, I love that era. I love the cars and boats made then.”

But it was his grandmother who he really has to thank. “She was like a little queen,” he recalls. “She really taught us to appreciate quality.”

It’s more than money he’s got his father to thank for, however. As a child the two of them would go birdwatching on the Dutch coast near a town called IJmuiden; the birds were interesting, he recalls, but the tugboats plying the canal between the coast and Amsterdam were fascinating: “I would see the boats come in and out and I was intrigued.”

They were owned by a company called Wijsmuller, which Muller, at just 32, would later buy and turn into the biggest tugboat operator in the world. “I sold it off to Maersk in 2001. It was my single biggest deal,” he says.

Money from the deal was ploughed into Spyker, which in turn allowed Muller to think about boats: before The Highlander , which he keeps in the US, he bought a Riva Aquariva and a nine-metre sloop that he keeps at his home in Mallorca. He previously owned a wooden Aquarama too, but got sick of having to take her in and out of the water to keep her from falling apart.

It was only when Muller was leafing through a copy of Boat International in 2007 on the island of Capri that he seriously considered buying a superyacht. “I saw an ad for a Feadship and started looking into it. I thought, heritage is very important, I want to buy the one with the best heritage.”

The search stopped when Muller saw The Highlander , then called Avante , nestled behind a house on the Intracoastal Waterway in Boca Raton, Florida.

The 36 metre classic scored on all counts: it was from an era when design briefs might as well have read “Elegant”; it had an enviable past, having been owned by legendary publisher Malcolm Forbes and, perhaps most importantly, it was a Feadship. “Everyone makes beautiful yachts,” explains Muller, “but there’s only one Feadship. If you buy a Feadship, you’re saying ‘I like quality and I don’t care what it costs.’”

In the 40-odd years of the yacht’s life to that point, it had hosted presidents, captains of industry and celebrities and now it was all Muller’s. “And it was still completely intact,” Muller adds. “Forty years of being in the harshest environment on the globe and externally there was nothing wrong with it.” The internals were a different matter, however. “It looked like a cheap whorehouse,” he remembers. “There was a fire on board in 1980 and the interior had been redone for a Californian owner. It was all white leather and brass. And Plexiglas. It was the worst of 1980 – nauseating – so I knew the first thing I had to do was rip the interior out.”

The Highlander spent three years at the superyacht refit yard in Fort Lauderdale, and Muller freely admits that he got it all wrong. “I was a novice and I made every classic mistake: I wasted money on the wrong things, I had to do lots of things twice. With hindsight I should have picked the yacht up and brought it back to Feadship. But I thought at the time that I couldn’t afford it: penny-wise, pound-foolish.”

Despite often contemplating canning the whole project, slowly the yacht came together and today it stands as a testament to Muller’s exacting eye and love of detail. He went big on teak and nickel (“because it’s so much more beautiful than chrome”) and chose white and orange for the main colours; white because it contrasts beautifully with the teak, and orange “for Holland”.

What he’s created is the ultimate family getaway. Sadly his father died before the yacht was finished but his mother, still going strong at 85, loves it. “The reason for buying the yacht was because my family is so important. The yacht offers a unique place to have everyone together in a confined but spacious area. Nobody is sitting too close together, and everyone can do their own thing. But you are together. And that’s invaluable,” Muller says.

Does his family appreciate the blood, sweat and tears he has poured into the detail? The seamlessness? The aesthetic? The design? Muller pauses. “You can learn quality,” he says, slowly. “It’s handed down from generation to generation. My children appreciate it, because I tell them, ‘This is crap, and that is good.’ If you see it enough times you will recognise it yourself, if you’re open to it.”

That 80-year-old chromer would approve.

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Family updates Highlander, a former Malcolm Forbes yacht

Joanne de Guardiola redesigned the Highlander yacht after buying it from Malcolm Forbes.

As an interior designer who loves yachting, Joanne de Guardiola bought Malcolm Forbes’ last yacht, Highlander, took it down to the studs, and remade his corporate-entertaining yacht into something she and her husband, Roberto, could enjoy with family and friends.

“I am a big fan of Jon Bannenberg, its designer, and it’s a Feadship, which are the best of the best. Bannenberg only designed three or four Feadships,” Joanne de Guardiola says.

She and husband were acquainted with the Forbes family, and they knew the yacht was available.

“It was one of those things,” de Guardiola says. “We took a look at it, and ended up buying it. She’s a great boat, and I loved her.”

Roberto grew up on the water in Havana, and boating has always been part of his life. Not so Joanne; she grew up in Michigan.

“Roberto and I chartered a few times, and I fell in love with boats. About a dozen years ago, we bought our first Feadship, Audacia,” she says.

“With kids 8, 10, or 12, they are not on their phones or computers all the time, and doing water sports with them is fun. We have this inflatable gym that you can get flipped off of, banana floats, kayaks, paddleboards, Seabobs. Everyone has a blast. Being on the water is phenomenal for families.”

They keep their yacht in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, depending on the season, and they spend about 10 weeks a year on it. Some of their favorite trips have been to Ponza Island, Istanbul, Greece, Croatia and Venice. The Palm Beachers now are planning a trip to Capri, and they are hoping to go to the Galapagos Islands soon.

Highlander, launched in 1986, was legendary, de Guardiola says.

“People often come up and talk to our crew because they have fond memories of being on board with Malcolm.”

When preparing to renovate and redecorate, de Guardiola studied Bannenberg’s original designs; she looked at the yacht’s bones, and let them lead her.

“I cleaned up exterior lines, and I took off the teak handrails. It broke my heart, but that change makes the boat look younger.” She repainted the yacht a slightly lighter shade of green, removed striping and extended sidewalls where necessary.

She also extended the top deck forward, doubling its size, and added “brows” for a finished look and to provide shade.

She moved the satellites to the stacks, which made room for a custom Jacuzzi with fountains that change color for a fun water feature.

Secured aft are Forbes’ Cigarette boat and Donzi, which de Guardiola also renovated. The space between them, where Forbes used to keep his motorcycles, now has a big sun pad.

Water accessible

De Guardiola extended the lower deck, making it more accessible to the water.

“Malcolm didn’t swim, and that’s why I designed a swim platform like floating stairs at the back. We can sit on it, or raise it up and use it for diving, or we can lower it down in rough waters for swimming. We can also use it as a passerelle.”

Throughout, she rearranged the interiors to make them work for her family’s lifestyle.

“This (162-foot) boat (with seven cabins as well as room for 11 crew) has a lot of interior space, and I actually cut a room out,” she says.

On the main deck, the salon and media room now flow together. De Guardiola removed padding from the ceilings and walls, replacing it with bleached-white anigre paneling, European walnut trim and bronze ceiling squares. She put in a wide-plank dark-oak floor, and she changed window boxes to match the shape of the windows. Also, she designed a stunning floating stairway in Brazilian granite, creating a very dramatic focal point.

Contemporary furniture, covered in practical indoor-outdoor Perennials textiles from David Sutherland, is functional as well as beautiful. For example, in the media room, furniture includes bronze and parchment tables by Holly Hunt, a Le Corbusier chaise, and a custom bronze bench.

Exotic anigre wood covers the walls in the master stateroom, which is located on the main deck forward, where de Guardiola designed a floating bed in custom woods. “We raised it up off the floor, so that when sitting on the bed, we can look out the surround windows. This room used to be the observatory and we decided to moved the master to this location.” The stateroom also includes closets, his and her marble bathrooms, and, on this deck are Roberto’s office and the galley.

On the bridge deck, a custom dining table can seat two or it can be extended to seat 18 people. Placed around it are Philippe Starck aluminum and teak chairs designed for David Sutherland. The sky lounge, with a disco vibe, is completely glass, with a blue onyx floor and a custom bar.

“It’s a greenhouse room, with the windows coming up around, so you can sit in there when anchored off of Monaco, for example, and you see the twinkling skyline. It’s fantastic.”

On a boat, you get to be inventive on how to use space on different ways, she says.

“Bannenberg played with angles and circles, and was very innovative. I am really proud that I was able to update the boat, and you can’t tell where the boat has been altered. It was a complicated process.”

Malcolm Forbes` Iconic Yacht The Highlander Now Available for Charter

By Brody Patterson

Updated on August 31, 2017

One of the most iconic ships in the world of business, the superyacht Highlander is, for the first time, available for charter.

The ship was built in 1986 for millionaire publisher and businessman Malcolm Forbes, a man known for his extravagant lifestyle and lavish parties. Among the many illustrious guests Forbes entertained on this stunning vessel were Elizabeth Taylor (who was a close friend of his), Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Robert de Niro, Harrison Ford, Paul McCartney, and Mick Jagger.

The yacht is now owned by American financier Roberto de Guardiola, who purchased it in 2012 and had it undergo a comprehensive overhaul, a process which included interior changes, lengthening of the hull, major mechanical revamp, and a full paint job. The ship is now 162-feet long and has a cruising speed of 13 knots. Up to twelve guests can be accommodated in its six staterooms, with adequate spaces for the eleven crew members left as well.

The Highlander, which is currently based in the Mediterranean but is set to move to the Caribbean later this year, is available for charter through superyacht broker Edmiston.

About Brody Patterson

Brody has worked as a full time staff writer for Luxatic for over five years, covering luxury news, product releases and in-depth reviews, and specializing in verticals on the website alongside the tech & leisure section, as well as men's fashion, watches and travel. Learn more about Luxatic's Editorial Process .

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Highlander: malcolm forbes’ yacht available for charter.

By Federico Tibytt

October 19, 2014

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Highlander: Malcolm Forbes’ Yacht Available…

The Highlander, owned by billionaire magnate Malcolm Forbes, who died in 1990, was one of the most iconic yachts in the world, the center of attention of the press and the public during the 1980’s and 1990’s. Originally built by the Royal Dutch Feadship dockyard, this stunning 147-foot superyacht, designed by Jon Bannenberg , was delivered to the Forbes family in 1986. According to the owner’s special request, the yacht’s imposing steel hull was painted in a shade of green known as “dollar green”.

In its nearly 30 years, the colossal yacht has hosted hundreds of personalities, from Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Prince Charles of England, to Robert de Niro, Mick Jagger, Liz Taylor and Paul McCartney, among others. In fact, its original design featured large reception and meeting rooms, as the vessel was used to hold private meetings with dignitaries, politicians, celebrities and businessmen from all over the world.

After the death of the owner of Forbes magazine, his offspring decided to put the boat up for sale. The new owner, American financial tycoon Roberto de Guardiola, commissioned American shipyard Derecktor of Florida to make a full renovation. Read more here about yachts and luxury autos.

The redesigned interior allows comfortable accommodation for 12 guests and 11 crew, a more appropriate arrangement for family use. The upper terrace was enlarged to provide more space for the solarium and relaxation area, and the old stately classic style that decorated the interior was replaced with more contemporary furnishings, colors and textures, including light woods like Wenge. Towards the stern, you’ll find the master cabin with a double en suite bathroom. Six more guest cabins were built, also with en suite bathrooms.

However, the new provision goes beyond mere aesthetics. The ship is also equipped with the latest technology in every room. This includes a new Quantum Zero-Speed stabilization system, new command post, new video and audio systems in every corner of the vessel, as well as LED lighting and wireless internet. The updated version also offers all the amenities of a modern yacht; it has several Jacuzzis, helipad, additional boats, cinema, gym and a hinged gangway in the aft with access to the water.

Currently, the Highlander is moored on the beaches of southern France. The good news: it is available for charter at a cost of $210,000 a week. ■

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Trash or Treasure: Denim jacket early work by well-known NYC artist

“This Levi brand denim jacket was purchased on the street in New York City in the early 1980s from artist Ivan Jenson,” wrote Mary Ellen Servitto to the column asking for assistance in valuing an item she had long been curious about. “My son was living in the city and his teenage sister came from Detroit to visit him and he purchased the jacket for her. He believes he paid about $100.”

Servitto said her son bought it from the artist in SoHo, a lower New York neighborhood. “He saw this and had to have it,” she remembers. Bob DuMouchelle had one question for her before giving her the appraisal. “Have you ever worn it?” he wondered as he examined it more closely. The classic jean jacket has an image of a face on the back in bright colors.

Servitto said she hasn’t, but that her daughter wore it repeatedly when she was in her teens. It is signed by the artist on the back in the lower left. “He was trying to get started and my son bought it off the street.”

Born in Los Angeles in 1962, Jenson was raised in an artistic family according to his website, ivanjenson.com. A child prodigy, he created his first sculpture at age 9. “At the age of twenty, Ivan was drawn to the epicenter of the national art scene, NYC, where he began successfully creating and selling his bold-colored paintings on the streets of Times Square and SoHo,” the site explains. He quickly drew attention and was spotted sketching portraits on cocktail napkins by Malcolm Forbes, who invited him to draw portraits of Forbes’ corporate guests on the “Forbes Highlander” yacht. He and Forbes became close friends; the portrait he was commissioned to paint was believed to be the last one of Forbes, who passed away soon after. Jenson was also commissioned to do a national advertising campaign for Absolut Vodka. He is now also a published novelist and poet. A number of his works have sold at auction.

DuMouchelle said he had never seen a jean jacket by the artist. “There are some baseball caps that he did and they go for about $60,” he said, adding that nothing he saw online was as interesting or as colorful as the jacket Servitto brought in. “Color and bold lines are what people seek out in works by this artist,” he said. “A buyer would probably want to frame this under UV glass.”

Textiles take special consideration when preserving, he added. He said she could take inspiration from the many similar pieces framed at places such as the Hard Rock Cafe. He valued the jacket at $500 to $1,000, as is, adding that framing it would bump it into the higher realm but could be expensive. “Whatever you decide, be sure to keep it out of sunlight,” he advised.

“It’s pretty much been in the closet for 30 years,” Servitto says, adding that she was always afraid to wash it. “Maybe I will sell it to Bruce Springsteen” she quipped.

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Item: Artist jean jacket

Appraised by: Bob DuMouchelle

Owned by: Mary Ellen Servitto

Estimated value: $500 to $1,000 at auction

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Malcolm Forbes’s Historic Yacht Is Reimagined

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The Highlander , a yacht owned and renovated by decorator Joanne de Guardiola and her husband, Roberto, idles off the Bahamas. Jon Bannenberg Limited designed the boat in 1985 for Malcolm Forbes.

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The De Guardiolas relax in the yacht’s renovated tender, which was custom made for Malcolm Forbes by the Cigarette Racing Team.

Chaise longues by John Hutton for Sutherland line the top deck of Highlander ; the cushions are clad in fabrics by Janus et Cie, Perennials, and Link Outdoor.

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In the sky lounge, a Frank Stella painting overlooks sofas designed by Joanne de Guardiola, with pillows in a C&C Milano fabric from Holland & Sherry; the red chair is vintage Verner Panton, the cocktail and side tables are from Holly Hunt, and the floor is paved with Brazilian blue onyx.

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A mixed-media piece by Cindy Workman (left) and a portrait by Chuck Close (right) are displayed in the main salon and adjacent hall; Joanne de Guardiola designed the banquette and chaise longue, the Robert Lemariey bench is clad in an Edelman leather, the cocktail table is by Holly Hunt, and the side table (at right) is vintage Jacques Adnet.

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The bridge deck’s dining salon is centered by an adjustable-height table set with china designed by Christian Lacroix for Vista Alegre; the chargers, napkins, and napkin rings are by Kim Seybert. The chairs are by Philippe Starck for Sutherland; a Missoni fabric from Stark trims the seat cushions.

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A vintage Le Corbusier chaise longue stands in front of a Slim Aarons photograph in the media room, which is furnished with a stool and tables from Holly Hunt; beyond the doors are John Hutton for Sutherland teak slipper chairs.

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Exterior teak steps lead from the bridge deck down to the main deck.

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Titanium-black granite lines a powder room; the sink, fittings, and towel rings are by Sherle Wagner International.

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In the main salon, a Herbert Ypma photograph joins an expandable table by Resource Furniture and Mario Botta chairs from Galere.

The wine cellar.

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Sapele mahogany panels the office; the bookshelves are brightened with Blue Koto veneer from UltraWood, the vellum-top iron desk is by Julian Chichester, and the door handles are original to the yacht.

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The master cabin is sheathed in bleached-anigre veneer from UltraWood; the vintage lamp is an Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni creation for Flos, and the embroidered bed linens were designed by Joanne de Guardiola.

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The Unique Burial of a Child of Early Scythian Time at the Cemetery of Saryg-Bulun (Tuva)

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E.вЂЇKilunovskaya and V. A.вЂЇSemenov) 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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