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FIRST LOOK: INSIDE NUVOLARI LENARD’S 116-METRE PROJECT WHITE ARROW
Nuvolari Lenard has unveiled Project White Arrow, a 116-metre superyacht developed with Moran Yacht & Ship. The first announcement establishes its exterior direction and proposed capacity, with architecture and interiors intended to evolve around a future owner.
Project White Arrow comes with a name, a length and a design team. What it does not yet come with, in this first announcement, is a named shipyard, a construction schedule or a detailed interior reveal.
Unveiled in Venice on 22 October 2026, the 116-metre project brings together Nuvolari Lenard for exterior and interior design and Moran Yacht & Ship for brokerage and project development. Its preliminary particulars list accommodation for 14 to 16 guests and a crew of 40.
The studio describes White Arrow as a design foundation for a future owner, with scope to develop the architecture, interiors and onboard experience through a bespoke commissioning process. That distinction is central to the announcement: the project has an established design direction, while significant decisions remain open to a client.
The most interesting projects are not necessarily those that arrive with every answer already defined. They are the ones that establish a strong vision and leave the right space for the owner to make it their own,
– says Dan Lenard.
The Exterior Comes First
White Arrow’s exterior is described as a sculptural composition with clean lines and carefully controlled proportions. Expansive glazing is a principal feature, intended to connect the interior spaces with the surrounding seascape.
The first release stops short of explaining how that glazing relates to individual rooms or decks. It provides no detailed general arrangement, suite configuration or breakdown of the guest accommodation. Nor does it identify specific leisure facilities.
For now, the emphasis is on the overall architecture. Nuvolari Lenard presents the 116-metre scale as an opportunity to develop the way an owner occupies the yacht, with the eventual client participating in that process.
A yacht of this scale gives you an extraordinary opportunity, but also a responsibility: to create something that feels coherent, effortless and ultimately human,
– says Carlo Nuvolari.
Designed for Longer Periods Aboar
The thinking behind White Arrow draws on a change Nuvolari Lenard says it has observed among its clients. Owners and their families are spending extended periods aboard, sometimes several months at a time, bringing the requirements of yacht design closer to those of a private residence.
The studio identifies privacy, wellbeing, time with other people and contact with nature as priorities informing the project. These remain design objectives at this stage; the announcement does not yet set out the spaces or arrangements through which each will be addressed.
Project White Arrow reflects this changing ‘sentiment’, exploring how scale, architecture and design can create an environment that feels both exceptional and deeply liveable,
– says Carlo Nuvolari.
Having both exterior and interior design within Nuvolari Lenard’s remit gives the studio responsibility for developing those ambitions across the yacht. Moran Yacht & Ship’s involvement covers brokerage and project development, although the announcement does not detail the next stages or their timing.
White Arrow’s first presentation therefore establishes the proposition rather than the finished specification: 116 metres, accommodation envisaged for 14 to 16 guests, and a design intended to develop around its owner.
The next substantial reveal will be how that owner’s brief translates into the plans.