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ARCHITECT IN RESIDENCE
Jean-Michel Gathy on pushing boundaries for a “gated community that floats”p116
“When you have made it in life, the only things you really want are comfort and knowledge,” says Jean-Michel Gathy, who perhaps more than anyone has come to define what we expect from a 21st-century hotel of the first rank and for whom God, as Mies van der Rohe used to say, is very much in the details. “It’s that feeling of learning something every day. It’s a major thing.”
Speaking from his studio in Kuala Lumpur, the Belgian-born architect is talking about his first marine project, Njord, the gigantic 12-deck “private-residence yacht” that Espen 0ino is designing, and for which Gathy’s practice, Denniston, along with Milan-based FM Architettura, will be
