Company Description
Evan K Marshall was founded out of a passion for boating and drawing boats — a spark that was ignited in the company’ founder Evan Marshall from the age of five.
Growing up in New York city, Marshall was surrounded by boats and sailed on a series of small cabin cruisers owned by his family, plying the waters of the East Coast of America in the mid 1960s. This combined with a love of drawing set the foundations for a lifelong devotion to creating beautiful and carefully considered yachts that would eventually grace the oceans of the world.
Marshall’ journey in yacht design has taken him from New York city where he worked for the legendary design office of Sparkman & Stephens to London, where after working for a prominent British yacht designer he established his design office in 1993.
In many respects this quote highlights the cornerstone of Evan K Marshall, which is always to push the envelope by creating exceptional designs whether they be exterior styling or interior design. Furthermore, the goal to achieve exceptional creations is represented by the company’ passion to produce designs that are uniquely tailored to each client’ requirements, whether they are custom projects for private individuals or production yachts for companies.
“ of my earliest memories is complaining to my father during a weekend cruise that I was bored. His response was draw some boats! I start drawing every boat we encountered and soon after I was drawing better looking boats than all the ones I was seeing.”
— Marshall
List of core services:
• Exterior yacht styling
• Interior yacht design
• Residential interior design
• Interior decoration
Personality
Q: How were you introduced to the world of superyacht design?
I was introduced to the world of yacht design from an early age, boating with my family on a series of small cabin cruisers we owned. I voraciously studied the design sections of every yacht magazine that came to our house and developed my boat drawing skills at an early stage of my life. Subsequent to those early years in college and while working at Sparkman & Stephens I began actively crewing on racing sailboats including ONE designs, IOR boats and Maxi-yachts. A vital component to my yacht design experience in addition to formal study was working at boat yards, which provided me with a lifelong insight into the construction of yachts.
Q: Where does the inspiration for new projects come from?
Inspiration comes from a number of sources and is abundant — almost every aspect of life is a good source if you approach it with an open mind. I draw inspiration from the love of classic car design, architecture, industrial design and the greatest designer of all, Mother Nature.
Q: If there were an award for the best design of all time, which one would you choose?
It would be impossible for me to select one item — there’ just so much out there that offers inspiration and design guidance. My shortlist would include the following items: the Classic Series One E-Type Jaguar Coupe, Frank Lloyd Wright’ Guggenheim museum in New York city, David Martin’ circa 1966 38’ Pacemaker Convertible and Jackson Pollock’ seminal painting The Deep.
