If I close my curtains in the evening, I want to be as though in an apartment and then it is very cosy and you don't feel like you are on the water. I kept all the technical aspects outside. The base of the boat is a pontoon, two double tanks like a catamaran and they have all the water and the fuel. “I wanted to have straight walls like a proper apartment without the restrictions of a boat but then I put it in the water. As the sun is coming up between the two buildings, it is first orange, then yellow and the water looks like gold.”Ī squared off 20 metres long by 6.5 metres wide with two stories, the 'O' is something of a misfit among the elegant curves of her naval neighbours. In the morning we have a fantastic light which is the sunrise. “Because of the view I made it completely open and the painting is outside. “This one I conceived as a white one because I love art,” says Leen. The brainchild of interior designer Leen Van Daele, the concept was born of a promenade along that same Creek and living on the 30th floor at Fairmont Residence. Berthed in Dubai Marina between the lines of marine leisure power, the 'O' is literally a floating house but one that is perfectly capable of a gentle cruise up the Creek.
Home at last.īut this is no apartment high in a towering block of concrete this is the O de Squisito. Pushing a button, the curtains quietly close off the panoramic vista to cocoon you in cosy comfort. As the light dims, you retreat inside to the luxury of your beautifully decorated apartment.