About us

John founded Vickers Studio 11 years ago in January 2015. The first project was a 94-foot Mulder Yacht and the owner has become a trusted friend and repeat Client; the studio is still working with Mulder Yachts, now developing the 10th 36m Yacht in the award-winning 300 GT range.

This has set the tone for the Studios success, consistently delivering award-winning designs in the most competitive yacht sizes, helping to build shipyards prestige and rewarding the Owners trust. Now with over 50 projects on the water of sizes up to 90m so far of interior and exterior new build and refit, the Studio’s proven design priorities focusing on the functions of the layout, good taste and great proportion have consistently won John and his core team of eight new business with great clients and shipyards. With many new builds and a consistent seasonal refit program the studio is excitedly looking forward to steady growth through its second decade.

BIOGRAPHY

For 25 years, John Vickers has refined his visual sense of good design, materials, light, careful colour balance and love for detail and proportion.

Growing up by the sea on Hayling Island, with a degree in Product Design and also a qualified Yacht Master, John progressed naturally into yacht design.

At Redman Whitely Dixon, John learnt to draft, design and project manage interior and exterior designs for industry classics, such as 55.5m Feadship M.Y ‘Twizzle’ and 155m Lurssen M.Y. ‘Al Said’. He then moved to set up the Luxury Yacht Department at property designers Candy & Candy, where the 62m Motor Yacht Candyscape II went on to win the coveted world Superyacht Award for Best Motor Yacht, with special mention for interior design.

Following that, 6 years as a Senior Designer at Terence Disdale, John worked on the world’s most prestigious interior and exterior design projects, as well as completing designs for a private jet and interior architecture.

John returned as a director to his first yacht design firm RWD before setting up Vickers Studio in January 2015.

World Superyacht Awards – 36m Seaflower

Winner Best Superyacht – 56m Blue II

Winner Best Superyacht Interior
Design – 36m Calypso

Winner Best Superyacht – 36m Delta One

A SELECTIVE LIST OF AWARDS AND PAST DESIGN EXPERIENCES

As designer then director at Redman Whiteley Dixon

155m Motor Yacht ‘Al Said’

World’s second largest private yacht by volume

55.5m Motor Yacht ‘Twizzle’

Winner – Best Superyacht, World Superyacht Awards.

As Candy & Candy Yacht
Department Head

62m Motor Yacht
‘Candyscape II’

Winner – Best Superyacht, World Superyacht Awards.

As a senior designer at
Terence Disdale Design

Private Jet – Bombardier Global 5000

81m Motor Yacht ‘Kibo’

Winner – Best Superyacht, World Superyacht Awards.

81m Motor Yacht ‘Romea’

GEMMA- CREATIVE LEAD

With superb creative vision and sensitivity Gemma leads on all colours, fabrics, art; she looks for the creative spark and emotion points in the all the studios designs.

SIMON – SENIOR DESIGNER

His experience and technical knowledge is amazing, having delivered 145m giga yachts to GRP production boats and sailing yachts for more than 25 years.

ANDREW – DESIGNER

A top graduate in design, he is very detailed and thorough with a creative eye. Andrew is planning his life on a classic yacht.

HELENA – SENIOR DESIGNER RESIDENTIAL PROJECT LEAD

With 20 years in Yacht design and residential interior design her experience and creativity is at the highest level. A former director at Taylor Howes she heads up our residential projects.

JENNA - SENIOR FF&E DESIGNER

Without doubt the finest FF and E designer and supplier we have ever worked with. Huge experience and always cheerful.

JULIE – STUDIO MANAGER

Creative team studio manager with us to ensure projects transition smoothly from concept to delivery.

GAVIN – DESIGN VISUALISATION

The finest photo real visualiser in the industry, having worked with the best he now works for the studio creating perfect visuals for our clients review.

Proudly recommended by…

John acted in the principal design team for a 130m+ new build project I was managing and also personally handled the complete refurbishment of 55m Benetti motor yacht GALAXY on behalf of one of my clients. He is diligent, hardworking and very enthusiastic.

We have worked closely with John and Vickers Studio over many years and he has shown great dedication to each project delivering fantastic design in a professional and timely way. We have trusted them not only with our interior designs but also helping us with some of our most important client relationships.

John came in and created the real wow factor! The end result was better than I ever expected.

John was a very much an influential part of the project team, as build Captain I really appreciated John's patience, his smile and great sense of humour.

John was recommended to me by Jamie Edmiston to help on the interior design of my 56m yacht build. We had lots of ideas but had not quite found the right interior design. John listened carefully to what we were after and produced very accurate, quality hand sketches showing fine details. John and his team have been knowledgeable and quick with design information and great at interpreting my ideas into the yacht.