INGOT Receives Michael C Fina Design Award - Burger - #1

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The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show is the gold standard of the megayacht world. With a new award for design excellence launched by the leading purveyors of interior design accoutrements, selecting a winner from the finalists for the Michael C. Fina Interior Design Awards was a challenge worthy of the New York-based company's seventy-five year reputation.

Profiled in previous issues of ShowBoats International, all were present and accounted for at this year's show. Trinity's 164' Norwegian Queen, 161* Anjiiis, and 16V Destination Foxharb'r Too; Northern Marine 152' Sorcha; Richmond Yachts' 142' Richmond Lady, Burger's 153' Ingot; and Christensen's 163' Casino Royale, featured superstar designers like Patrick Knowles, Vripack, Ward Setzer, and Jeff Homchick.

Steven Fina and George Fina, accompanied by the magazine's editors, sifted through the chosen. As Steven Fina put it, "Every single yacht had something unique.

Wisconsin's Burger Boat Company's 153-foot Ingot took top spot on the podium. The company's heralded 'green' yacht, a product of col­laborative thinking between Burger's design staff and The Netherlands' respected Vripack group, used a vocabulary of neo-classical motifs to make its case to the judges.

Being associated for decades with premier designers in luxury yachting, Michael C. Fina has an astute viewpoint. "It's truly remark­able what has taken place in the industry," Fina adds. "And we've seen a drama of increasing size as we work with designers, builders, and own­ers. The award is really our way of honoring the relationships we've had

_ with an industry which has supported us."

Steven Fina recounts their impressions stepping aboard Ingot. "What struck us was the flow of the design

Iexperience. Besides the consistency of style, there was a feeling of functionality in every room. The individual­ity of the owner was a definable, but not overwhelming,

But we were looking beyond the 'wow' factor. Our win-

presence."

ner needed to reflect our benchmarks for individuality; innovation; distinctiveness; continuity; versatility; time­less look and feel; and brilliance of overall concept. It also needed to balance detail, elegance, and be the sum of all things luxurious."

"In every great accomplishment, it is the small de-t^^jp tails thai contribute to the greater intangible," he adds.

"That 'something you can't quite put your finger on', is, in reality, the manifestation of a mastery of detail. And on a rarified environment like a luxury yacht, those details,