Bentley design floats this customer’s boat

Tired of your Bentley clashing with your yacht?

Bentley helped one customer solve that decidedly first-world problem by creating a bespoke yacht cabin to match the interior of a Continental GT V8 coupe.

The automaker worked with Contest Yachts to replicate the Continental’s Hotspur red leather and Linen beige hide on an 18-meter yacht. Bentley used a specially commissioned machine to give the yacht’s paneling its signature diamond-in-diamond stitching, with each diamond made of exactly 712 stitches.

It also complemented the Continental’s Light Sapphire exterior with a deep blue hull on the yacht.

“This project was an opportunity for Bentley Design Services to showcase some of their many skills in a truly unique collaboration,” Brett Boydell, Bentley’s head of design collaborations, said in a statement. “Bentley cars embrace qualities of craftsmanship and styling that are only achieved at the highest level of nautical design.”