The Azimut Magellano 27M design combines sculpted exterior lines with warm, wooden interiors, offering complete harmony with the sea.
The Azimut Magellano 27M – the third generation of the crossover of the sea – has won the Design Innovation Award 2026 in the “Superyachts – over 24 meters” category, presented at the Genoa International Boat Show. Now in its seventh edition, the award promoted by Confindustria Nautica and I Saloni Nautici highlights projects that excel in research, innovation, and design quality across the yachting sector. The jury recognized the Magellano 27M for “the ability to combine a break with stylistic conventions, innovative layout, elegant finishes, and a seamless harmony with high-quality interior spaces. The result is a product with a strong identity that clearly declares its vocation as a vessel designed for living.”
The Magellano 27M opens the third chapter of an evolutionary story sparked in the early 2000s by the foresight of Paolo and Giovanna Vitelli. They were the first to pioneer an entirely new category — the crossover of the seas — sparking a revolution in both experience and design that equals the impact of the SUV on the automotive world. As a true crossover, the Magellano grants the freedom to forego compromise and simply embrace it all: a design that combines generous volumes for long voyages with elegant, timeless lines, and an experience elevated by a Dual Mode hull guaranteeing superior comfort across a wide range of sea conditions and speeds. Defined by its vertical bow and double chine, this high-efficiency hull combines the strengths of displacement and planing designs, reducing fuel consumption while softening wave impact. It is an innovation designed not to chase speed, nor to settle for slowness, but to navigate at one’s own pace, with the absolute freedom to set sail even when the sea keeps others ashore.
Inaugurated today with the Magellano 27M, the Series’ third generation brings this journey to fulfillment, where the long-range strength of the crossover flows into an intimate, soulful interior space. The choice of an unprecedented creative dialogue, uniting Finnish designer Jarkko Jämsén with AMDL CIRCLE, Michele De Lucchi, and Davide Angeli, is itself a tribute to the yacht’s independent and versatile nature. Jämsén’s multifaceted talent, spanning iconic superyachts, advanced sail design, and industrial craft, instills the exterior with a bold sculptural force. Inside, that pure architecture adopts an Italian accent, guided by De Lucchi’s signature decision to entrust the entire narrative to the warmth of wood. Its heart is the loggia, a Mediterranean sanctuary blurring inside and out, where onboard life slows during long passages and quiet anchorages. A vessel for discerning seafarers, aesthetes whose instinct is to seek the rare over the ordinary, pursuing absolute freedom. Their effortless individuality finds its natural counterpart in the Magellano 27M: a superyacht whose character reflects their own, unique, confident, and deeply imbued with beauty.
THE BARE SHAPE: WHEN NATURE DESIGNS
Exterior designer Jarkko Jämsén built the concept around a radical idea: the Magellano 27M is like a living site-specific artwork, conceived not to dominate nature but to exist through it, her beauty revealed in dialogue with the elements. By stripping away the unnecessary and revealing the bare shape, the Magellano 27M transforms into a mirror where sea, sky, and light endlessly compose her surfaces. Jämsén’s architecture dances between engineering and fluidity, just as the industrial line – the loop – traces its dance along the yacht’s profile, expressing a dual nature. On one side, precise engineering: the straight line of the corner, the industrial feel of the fillets, the calibrated dimensions that speak of technical mastery and high precision.
On the other, fluidity and reflection: the surfaces surrounding the loop are deliberately pure and cleaned of excess, allowing curvatures to capture light and multiply the play of sea and sky. The wooden louvers at the stern – a signature aesthetic element of the entire Magellano Series – bring in the warmth of wood and break the sunlight into shafts of light and shade. This tension between engineered clarity and sculptural softness creates a unique identity: a yacht that is instantly recognizable, rigorously built, yet alive with natural beauty.
