001Yacht Design2025
Horus
M/Y 49.9m — Interior Concept
A sculptural interior concept for a 49.9-metre motor yacht — a study in proportion, warm materiality and quiet light.
✦ A' Design Award — Bronze, 2025
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Istanbul · Working internationally
Istanbul · Yacht & Multidisciplinary Design
Designing sculptural
experiences for life at sea.
Kumru Bekret is a yacht and multidisciplinary designer creating sculptural, considered and timeless experiences — from marine interiors to product, furniture, lighting and artwork.
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002Yacht Design2023
Libellula
S/Y 49.9m — Interior Concept
Interior concept for a 49.9-metre sailing yacht — light, tactile and deliberately restrained.
✦ EPDA Winner · IDA Silver, 2023
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003Yacht Design2021
Hirundo
S/Y 11.9m — Exterior & Interior
A compact 11.9-metre sailboat where every millimetre earns its place — exterior line and interior layout drawn as one.
✦ GYHIB — 1st Prize, 2021
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004Yacht Design2022
Hadia
Royal Hakvoort 49.9m — Refit
A full interior refit for a 2006 Royal Hakvoort — modernised, softened, and rebuilt to a contemporary editorial standard.
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From first sketch to production development.
Each project is approached as a complete design process—combining concept development, spatial thinking, technical detailing, digital modelling and visual communication. The aim is to create solutions that are not only visually distinctive, but also functional, considered and ready to be developed in coordination with shipyards, engineers and manufacturers.
- 01
Yacht Design
Distinctive yacht concepts shaped through proportion, movement and life at sea.
Yacht concepts are developed through a balance of aesthetics, spatial experience, functionality and technical awareness.
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Technical Design & Production Development
Developing design intent into detailed and manufacturable solutions.
Concepts are developed into clear technical documentation with attention to dimensions, materials, construction logic and production requirements.
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2D & 3D Design
Precise digital design tools for concept, development and production workflows.
Accurate 2D drawings and 3D models support every stage of the process—from early spatial studies and form development to visualisation, detailing and manufacturing coordination.
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Visualisation
Communicating the atmosphere, materiality and experience of a design before production.
Photorealistic imagery is used as both a communication and design-development tool, allowing form, atmosphere, lighting, materials and spatial relationships to be evaluated before production.
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Product, Furniture & Lighting Design
Bespoke objects developed through a balance of identity, function and material.
Objects are designed as part of a wider spatial experience or as independent products.
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Design Philosophy
“Every project begins with proportion, movement and the relationship between people, objects and space.”
A quiet combination of aesthetic sensitivity, spatial thinking, technical awareness, material understanding, and production-conscious decisions — carried through every discipline of the studio.
Selected Recognition
Internationally awarded.
- 2025
A' Design Award — Bronze Winner
Yacht and Marine Vessels Design · Horus
- 2023
IDA Design Awards — Silver Winner
Automotive & Transport — Yacht · Libellula
- 2023
EPDA — Winner
Automotive & Transport — Watercraft · Libellula
- 2021
GYHIB — 10th National Ship & Yacht Design Competition — 1st Prize
Ship & Yacht Design · Hirundo
Kumru Bekret — Founder & Designer
About
Designer of spaces, objects and experiences.
An award-winning yacht and multidisciplinary designer based in Istanbul, with over six years across leading Turkish and European design offices — TAKA Yacht Design, Turquoise Yachts and Ori Marine.
Founder of Kumru Bekret Yacht Design and Co-Founder and Art Director of Brussels-based creative studio Brüksel Dijital.
About Kumru →Enquiries
Let's create something considered.
For commissions, collaborations and project enquiries — new builds, refits, product and artwork.
- kumrubekret@hotmail.com
- Istanbul, Türkiye
- Working internationally