‘Kensho’

Perhaps one of the most lavish and skillful displays of marble aboard any yacht is Kensho’s full-sized bathtub in the owner’s suite. It is sculpted from a single solid block of white Carrara. Accentuated with gray-blue veins, Carrara (also called Lunar marble by the Romans) was Michelangelo’s stone of choice (he carved his signature sculpture David out of it), and more marble has been extracted from the 650 quarries near Carrara in the rolling mountains of Tuscany, Italy, than any other place in the world. Kensho’s bathtub came from a block of marble that the stone yard’s owner had been saving for a personal project. “They haven’t found any blocks like that for a couple of generations," says interior designer Sanjit Manku of studio Jouin Manku when the yacht was delivered in 2022. Manku likened the marble’s veins to “Japanese calligraphy."

From the article by Julia Zaltzman

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Published 20th July 2025
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