It was here a couple of years ago, and it returned today and stayed for two nights...one of the most famous yachts among the "yachting fraternity", The One, better known under the name it had for 30 years since its launch in 1973, Carinthia VI.
Firstly, a bit of background reading on...Helmut Horten...courtesy of Wikipeida.
Helmut Horten (8 January 1909, Bonn – 30 November 1987, Croglio, Switzerland) was a German entrepreneur who built up and owned the fourth-largest chain of department stores in Germany.
The son of a judge was apprentice in a Düsseldorf department store belonging to Leonhard Tietz before working for the Duisburg department store of the Gebrüder Alsberg (Alsberg brothers) company. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Horten was able to acquire the company from their Jewish owners, Strauß and Lauter, who fled to the United States. He was aided in this transaction by the banker Wilhelm Reinhold of the Commerz- and Disconto-Bank. The bank was to become partner in the newly-formed Horten & Co.
Until 1939 Horten acquired several other department stores and enjoyed a good relationship with the Nazi government despite the fact that his godfather, the (later) Catholic saint Titus Maria Horten died in custody in 1936. Horten was able to get the right of distribution of certain goods which were scarce due to war.
After the Second World War Horten was interned by the British Army in 1947 in Recklinghausen. After a hunger strike he was released in 1948. He soon continued with the consolidation and expansion of his company, which he still owned. Horton introduced Germany's first supermarket after a visit to the United States, with the copying of the model expanding the group quickly. In 1968, with 25,000 staff and turnover of €1Bn, he floated the group on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
In 1972 Horten sold his majority stake and retreated from business, which controversially lost a great deal of value soon afterwards. In 1994 the chain was bought by Kauhof Holding AG, merged in to the German retail group METRO AG in 1996.
In 1959 Horton met Austrian Heidi Jelinek, a woman 30 years his junior, in a hotel bar - the couple married in 1966, and moved to Croglio in the Swiss canton of Ticino at the end of 1968. Horten enjoyed living the life of a wealthy man – he owned a BAC 1-11 as a private jet, a series of private yachts named after Carinthia, and a villa in Mülheim an der Ruhr. In Duisburg, the centre of his business activities, he made donations to the tennis club, the carnival and the zoo. The Helmut Horten Stiftung promotes medical research.
His widow inherited his $1 billion fortune, and lives today between homes in Croglio, Lyford Cay, by the Wörthersee in Austria and a penthouse in Vienna. Rated as the world's 224th-richest person by Forbes magazine, she also commissioned and owns one of the world's largest yachts, in the Carinthia VII.
Ah! The lives of the rich and famous!
The Carinthia VII has yet to visit Symi (as far as I know), but its predecessor, the last of the six that Helmut ordered, most assuredly has (Its predecessor, Carinthia V sank shortly after being launched, by the way). The Carinthia VI was sold by Helmut's widow in 2003...the asking price was $35,000,000...and promptly renamed The One of London before the last two words were dropped.
Why, you may ask, is it such a famous yacht? Once again, the following text about its musical designer, Jon Bannenberg, should explain...
Jon Bannenberg: 1929-2002
A music analogy is appropriate, as Bannenberg actually wanted to be a concert pianist as a young man. Born in Australia in 1929, the son of a Dutch father and Australian mother, he studied piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
While still a student he began playing in jazz clubs and bars and continued to do so after graduation, also developing an affinity for acting in the theater and designing some of the sets. He left for England in 1952 to pursue his musical passion, and while he continued to perform in clubs, he also continued to design sets, including ones for the famed Old Vic in London. In 1954 he and his wife Beau opened an interior design business, working mostly on houses and apartments, although Bannenberg did also form a partnership with a high-profile antiques shop and designed various antique exhibitions. While that project led to other marine contracts, notably a number of guest suites and the two-level public room aboard the QE2 in 1967, it’s remarkable to realize that Bannenberg wasn’t widely recognized until the launch of Carinthia VI at Germany’s Lurssen Shipyard in 1972, when his rule-breaking originality turned the yachting world on its ear.
Commissioned by German retailing tycoon Helmut Horten, the now-famous 233-footer was adorned with radically unconventional angles and ultra-modern lines that stood in marked contrast to the virtual sea of conservative, traditional-looking profiles that were being turned out by the world’s top designers. Her sheer size was also extraordinary—Horten had to have the wall at the Cannes marina where he always kept his yachts extended to accommodate her. (Kept in immaculate condition by Horten’s widow, Carinthia VI has gone on to become an icon in the yachting world, even inspiring clothing magnate Leslie Wexner to commission Bannenberg to design his 316-foot Limitless.)
and, from a testimonial to Bannenberg....
Jon designed a yacht built by Camper & Nicholsons in 1967, and two years later designed the first of a triumvirate of yachts name Carinthia, which for many today remain icons of Bannenberg’s legacy, especially Carinthia VI, which was launched in the early 1970s. The yacht now called, The One, firmly established his reputation and inspired other designers for years to come.
“In my opinion there is one yacht which stands head and shoulders above all the rest and that is Carinthia VI,” says designer Martin Francis. “This yacht of 72m (236’) has less accommodation than many current 55m (180’) and is incomparably more elegant and of course faster. At a personal level it was the yacht which most inspired me in the design of Eco, which was in fact the replacement for the other two most remarkable and innovative yachts Jon did,
Azteca and Paraiso,” he adds.
Carinthia VI inspired but also raised a few eyebrows. The yacht’s angular superstructure and strict symmetry were unique at the time. “It scared the pants off everyone, it looked like Star Wars,” Dickie Bannenberg says. But Jon Bannenberg dared to go against conventions and rules. “Jon was really the first to push the envelope in styling of the larger yachts, much to the dismay of many a boatbuilder,” says Lürssen’s Michael Bremen. “But his drive and perseverance ultimately won the day and his legacy speaks for itself. Following in his footsteps, the designers who once worked for him (and there are many) all continued in this vein and we are now faced with continually new challenges. Jon was the catalyst to make this happen.”
The One now has an Italian owner...and pictures of what it looks like onboard have proved impossible for me to come by...apologies for that!
Even 35 years after its launch, it is still the 61st largest yacht in the World.
Firstly, a bit of background reading on...Helmut Horten...courtesy of Wikipeida.
Helmut Horten (8 January 1909, Bonn – 30 November 1987, Croglio, Switzerland) was a German entrepreneur who built up and owned the fourth-largest chain of department stores in Germany.
The son of a judge was apprentice in a Düsseldorf department store belonging to Leonhard Tietz before working for the Duisburg department store of the Gebrüder Alsberg (Alsberg brothers) company. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Horten was able to acquire the company from their Jewish owners, Strauß and Lauter, who fled to the United States. He was aided in this transaction by the banker Wilhelm Reinhold of the Commerz- and Disconto-Bank. The bank was to become partner in the newly-formed Horten & Co.
Until 1939 Horten acquired several other department stores and enjoyed a good relationship with the Nazi government despite the fact that his godfather, the (later) Catholic saint Titus Maria Horten died in custody in 1936. Horten was able to get the right of distribution of certain goods which were scarce due to war.
After the Second World War Horten was interned by the British Army in 1947 in Recklinghausen. After a hunger strike he was released in 1948. He soon continued with the consolidation and expansion of his company, which he still owned. Horton introduced Germany's first supermarket after a visit to the United States, with the copying of the model expanding the group quickly. In 1968, with 25,000 staff and turnover of €1Bn, he floated the group on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
In 1972 Horten sold his majority stake and retreated from business, which controversially lost a great deal of value soon afterwards. In 1994 the chain was bought by Kauhof Holding AG, merged in to the German retail group METRO AG in 1996.
In 1959 Horton met Austrian Heidi Jelinek, a woman 30 years his junior, in a hotel bar - the couple married in 1966, and moved to Croglio in the Swiss canton of Ticino at the end of 1968. Horten enjoyed living the life of a wealthy man – he owned a BAC 1-11 as a private jet, a series of private yachts named after Carinthia, and a villa in Mülheim an der Ruhr. In Duisburg, the centre of his business activities, he made donations to the tennis club, the carnival and the zoo. The Helmut Horten Stiftung promotes medical research.
His widow inherited his $1 billion fortune, and lives today between homes in Croglio, Lyford Cay, by the Wörthersee in Austria and a penthouse in Vienna. Rated as the world's 224th-richest person by Forbes magazine, she also commissioned and owns one of the world's largest yachts, in the Carinthia VII.
Ah! The lives of the rich and famous!
The Carinthia VII has yet to visit Symi (as far as I know), but its predecessor, the last of the six that Helmut ordered, most assuredly has (Its predecessor, Carinthia V sank shortly after being launched, by the way). The Carinthia VI was sold by Helmut's widow in 2003...the asking price was $35,000,000...and promptly renamed The One of London before the last two words were dropped.
Why, you may ask, is it such a famous yacht? Once again, the following text about its musical designer, Jon Bannenberg, should explain...
Jon Bannenberg: 1929-2002
A music analogy is appropriate, as Bannenberg actually wanted to be a concert pianist as a young man. Born in Australia in 1929, the son of a Dutch father and Australian mother, he studied piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
While still a student he began playing in jazz clubs and bars and continued to do so after graduation, also developing an affinity for acting in the theater and designing some of the sets. He left for England in 1952 to pursue his musical passion, and while he continued to perform in clubs, he also continued to design sets, including ones for the famed Old Vic in London. In 1954 he and his wife Beau opened an interior design business, working mostly on houses and apartments, although Bannenberg did also form a partnership with a high-profile antiques shop and designed various antique exhibitions. While that project led to other marine contracts, notably a number of guest suites and the two-level public room aboard the QE2 in 1967, it’s remarkable to realize that Bannenberg wasn’t widely recognized until the launch of Carinthia VI at Germany’s Lurssen Shipyard in 1972, when his rule-breaking originality turned the yachting world on its ear.
Commissioned by German retailing tycoon Helmut Horten, the now-famous 233-footer was adorned with radically unconventional angles and ultra-modern lines that stood in marked contrast to the virtual sea of conservative, traditional-looking profiles that were being turned out by the world’s top designers. Her sheer size was also extraordinary—Horten had to have the wall at the Cannes marina where he always kept his yachts extended to accommodate her. (Kept in immaculate condition by Horten’s widow, Carinthia VI has gone on to become an icon in the yachting world, even inspiring clothing magnate Leslie Wexner to commission Bannenberg to design his 316-foot Limitless.)
and, from a testimonial to Bannenberg....
Jon designed a yacht built by Camper & Nicholsons in 1967, and two years later designed the first of a triumvirate of yachts name Carinthia, which for many today remain icons of Bannenberg’s legacy, especially Carinthia VI, which was launched in the early 1970s. The yacht now called, The One, firmly established his reputation and inspired other designers for years to come.
“In my opinion there is one yacht which stands head and shoulders above all the rest and that is Carinthia VI,” says designer Martin Francis. “This yacht of 72m (236’) has less accommodation than many current 55m (180’) and is incomparably more elegant and of course faster. At a personal level it was the yacht which most inspired me in the design of Eco, which was in fact the replacement for the other two most remarkable and innovative yachts Jon did,
Azteca and Paraiso,” he adds.
Carinthia VI inspired but also raised a few eyebrows. The yacht’s angular superstructure and strict symmetry were unique at the time. “It scared the pants off everyone, it looked like Star Wars,” Dickie Bannenberg says. But Jon Bannenberg dared to go against conventions and rules. “Jon was really the first to push the envelope in styling of the larger yachts, much to the dismay of many a boatbuilder,” says Lürssen’s Michael Bremen. “But his drive and perseverance ultimately won the day and his legacy speaks for itself. Following in his footsteps, the designers who once worked for him (and there are many) all continued in this vein and we are now faced with continually new challenges. Jon was the catalyst to make this happen.”
The One now has an Italian owner...and pictures of what it looks like onboard have proved impossible for me to come by...apologies for that!
Even 35 years after its launch, it is still the 61st largest yacht in the World.
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Updated 21/08/2008, 21:06, hits
lizzykitch said on 27/08/2008, 19:50
What a beauty