Founded by Tommaso De Luca and Antonino Muto, bringing together three decades of experience collaborating with the most prestigious names in the yachting industry.
Mastering both worlds: from performance sailing yachts to luxury motor vessels, our unique dual expertise allows us to push boundaries across the entire spectrum of yacht design.
What we do
A complete range of services supporting both custom and series production, backed by solid technical expertise and refined design sensibility.
Custom and series motor yachts design
Custom and series sailing yachts design
Interior design for both motor and sailing yachts
Technical Engineering and Support
How we work
Comprehensive Design Process
Crafting Yachts with intent
and vision
From initial concept to final delivery, we transform visions into seaworthy reality.
Every project begins with hand-drawn sketches, evolves through precise engineering, and culminates in vessels that harmonize aesthetics with performance.
Our goal?
To find the unique balance for each project between proportions, design, function, and technology, following and interpreting the desires of our clients, whether they are shipyards or owners.
Sketching Ideas
The initial approach is always by hand, with sketches that quickly follow ideas and swiftly outline the approach to the solution.
Technical Essence
Subsequently, the technical platform is refined, always in relation to the project’s objectives, proportions, and design language.
Shaping Volumes
Then we model in 3D, verifying the project volumetrically, redefining details and solutions until the final balance is found.
Shared Vision
The design is then validated using the most modern visualization technologies, renders, animations, and virtual visualization, because nothing is more valuable than the assurance of a shared and well-understood project.
from Vision to Reality
The solid technical background ensures quality solutions and drawings that are consistent with the construction systems and budget constrains specific to each project.
Our latest Works :
ITAMA 54
ITAMA 80 – concept
ABOUT US
Tommaso
DE LUCA
With nearly twenty-five years of experience, he began his career in the technical office at Wally Yachts, where he contributed to the engineering of several iconic Wally sailing vessels of that period (Indio, Y3K, among others). A pivotal year followed at Wally Yachts’ Tunisian shipyard, where he focused on engineering and reimagining the iconic Wallytender 43 for series production.
These formative years in engineering and shipyard operations established the robust technical and construction expertise that would become the cornerstone of his design philosophy and methodology.
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In 2004, he established his own studio in Rome, where alongside providing technical consultation to the Wally shipyard in Fano and CNM shipyard in Rome, he began working as a freelance designer. He designed several motor yachts that were awarded “Boat of the Year” in their respective categories at the Cannes Yacht Show (CNM 50, CNM 50 Tender, the interiors of CNM 80, the ZEN 70, along with other work as a ghost designer for projects over 50 meters).
In 2009, Luca Bassani appointed him as Design Director at Wally Yachts, where he served as Chief Designer, a consultancy role he continues to provide to the Ferretti Group. Working alongside the dynamic Bassani, he shaped his brilliant intuitions into some of the most iconic projects of the last decade. In sailing yachts, he designed both exterior and interior of: Wallycento Magic Carpet III, WallyCento Galatea, the 110 ft BARONG 3, and the 93 ft Nahita. In motor yachts, notable designs include: Wallyone, Wallypower 52, and various versions of the Wallyace 27m. During these years, he also served as technical coordination consultant for all motor yacht projects.
In 2019, Wally Yachts joined the Ferretti Group family. With the primary focus on creating a new motor yacht range, Tommaso was directed exclusively to motor yacht projects, where the Ferretti Group initially concentrated its efforts. The entire current range of Wally motor yachts bears the mark of his design and Luca Bassani’s brilliant ideas: WHY 200, 150 and 100, Wallypower 58, Wallypower 50, and Wallytender 43. In just over 5 years, a new range of motor yachts was born.
His 25-year journey represents a singular trajectory in the maritime industry: from engineering cutting-edge sailing and motor yachts to developing custom vessels and series production motor yachts. This comprehensive experience positions Tommaso as a designer with an unprecedented background in today’s nautical landscape. Combining his passion for the sea (cultivated through over 40 years of sailing experience) with his extensive and multifaceted expertise, he achieves a rare synthesis of form, function, technology, and client aspirations in their truest and most meaningful expression.
Antonino
MUTO
With a solid background in industrial and transportation design, Antonino has developed deep expertise in designing innovative and functional products, specializing in the nautical sector due to his passion for the sea.
After earning a master’s degree in nautical design, he accumulated eight years of experience at Wally studio and recently at Cantieri di Pisa.
Despite using cutting-edge design software, Antonino maintains a deep connection with hand drawing, which he considers a fundame ntal expressive tool to bring unique and personalized ideas to life.
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His career began as an onboard technician, where he spent a year installing electrical and home automation systems on various types of vessels. This hands-on experience provided him with a thorough understanding of the operational dynamics and specific needs of the nautical sector, positively influencing his design approach.
Subsequently at Wally, Antonino had the opportunity to work on projects from the concept phase to final realization, developing specific skills in the design of assemblies and detailed components such as control panels, transformable systems, and multifunctional external elements.
His design approach is characterized by functional rigor, where aesthetics emerge from a careful and rational design process. Each element is studied to optimize performance and the onboard experience, creating a coherent and distinctive formal language.
He has worked on both custom and series projects, experimenting with innovative materials, also coming from sectors outside the nautical field.
This combination of skills allows him to offer a complete service to his clients, from concept design to final realization.
