About us
Marco Larboard & Elena Vianello
Two Venetians, one drawing table, and a quarter century of yachts that were never supposed to be possible.
Since 2001
A studio built like a good hull: light, strong, fair
Larboard Naval Studio began in a former rope workshop on the Zattere, with two designers who believed a yacht's beauty and its engineering are the same conversation. Twenty-five years later the workshop is bigger, the conversation hasn't changed.
Today thirty architects, engineers and material researchers work between Venice and our build-support office in La Spezia — drawing exteriors, interiors, aircraft cabins and the occasional house for owners who became friends.
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Years of practice
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Founders
The two signatures
Marco Larboard
Trained as a naval architect, ruined as a purist by a childhood of wooden sandoli. Marco draws every first line of every yacht — and still reviews every fairing plug in person.
Elena Vianello
Elena came from theatre set design, which explains why stepping aboard a Larboard interior feels like the lights going down on opening night. She leads materials, light and calm.
Studio
The crew ashore
Tommaso Riva
Design Director
Giacomo Ferri
Head of 3D & Visualisation
Chiara Dal Mas
Materials & Colour
Sofia Meneghel
Build Support, La Spezia
Like what we draw? Come and draw with us — or commission us.