In 2019, Italian artist Maurizio Katilan was invented comicA series of three identical pieces, each of which consists of fresh banana, cut on the wall. One in Guggenheim. Justin Sun, the founder of the cryptocurrency platform, who paid $ 6.2 million to fruit -based art at Sotheby’s auction last November.

The third was on display in Freddy Daily, the cafe on board the worldIn January when I visited the super residential megayach. C-SUits workers, surgeons, real estate federations, and technology creators who live-at least for several months of the year-on the 644-foot ship to look at the controversial conceptual artworks on their way to seize one of the excellent Smashburgers in Freddy.

I urged an identity comicMalik, but Robin Edwards, retired company lawyer and head of management the worldThe Sales and Marketing Committee was not a member. Privacy is of the utmost importance for the owners of the 165 -year -old ship housing, which ranges from 300 square feet to a large apartment from three bedrooms currently listed at $ 12.5 million.

I joined Robin and her husband, Rich, an old navy and retired investment warrior, in the Asian ship’s restaurant, east, during a three -night trip from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas. Rich gray wore gray (gun shirt, Marseille Blazer) and a mustache to suit. Robin was in the Lotus printed from Hawaii and had taken sleeves by the tailor on the plane. Both reached 77 years last year, and they were sitting near each other, they seemed to hold his hands under the table.

I would like to be my grandparents, and not only because they have a backup bedroom in two tracks, two bathrooms who bought in 2015. While they have a house in the Gulf region (staying on the ground is required for tax purposes) and visiting their children and grandchildren in Virginia and Contect, they spend most of their time in their time in the world.

“It is the easiest way to travel ever,” Robin explained to King Salmon Sashimi and Alsatian Riesling in the East. “You don’t have to pack and empty. You can come and go as you like.” The ship, which was launched in 2002, determines its annual path, wanders from the Cruise Standard Stations such as Alaska and the Bahamas to distant ports in Namibia, Vanuato and Antarctica. Rich, a amateur photographer, lists the couple’s trips on the Abi Al -Dajah Blog, where in the world is Ricardo?

But life the world It is much more than the charming ship destinations. Population gets
To know their “neighbors” in tasting wine, poker championships, lectures on filmmaking, archaeology, and political geography. About 25 % have a home on a contract or more. Robin said: “I came to the course of the journey and staying for society,” Robin said. “With regard to aging and longevity, one of the most important things is to have a social life.”

“Getting physical activity,” added Rich. The only size tennis court in the SEA UNFURLS in Pacific Blue Resin on the upper deck, surrounded by walking path. The ship’s employees include Pilates coaches, personal trainers, and (if a back is released during rowing in French Polynesia) a physical therapist. In the spa and salon, residents can be returned from their skin, holding a knot, preparing the beard, and love deals from overcoming the laser.

The ship attracts retired heels, with average life in the 1960s, due to the prices that follow high -end apartments in New York and London (as well as maintenance fees based on the residence field footage). But the owners are between the ages of 22 to 95 and become younger thanks to Wi-Fi Satellite Satellite, the rise of digital codes and action.

Usually, owners come to you the world Through personal referrals or through exclusive resorts specialized in a specialized villa, whose members spend more than 1,200 nights a year on their four homes. The Edwardses did six exploratory research, then took the diving and bought their own apartment on board.

In more than two decades of two decades at sea, no real competitor has risen to challenge him the worldHegemony in place. This is not for any shortage of startups trying to get their feet. As Coo from the world For six years, Alain Grober has seen many ambitious proposals for potential competitors for the residential megayachts. He said: “It was either very large or very small, or that the time for marketing or financing was stopped.” “In most cases, it was a mixture of those things.”

Now Jerober takes his own shot as CEO OlisiaThe planned residential yacht, 133 houses (average price: $ 18 million) were booked approximately before its launch in 2029. Gropopier sees potential agents between the former yachts owners who “do not want to leave the lifestyle but they do not want the headache of having to control logistical services, crew and employees.” With an elegant silhouette designed by the famous marine architecture company Espen Oweno International, medical facilities compete with military ships, and a ban on ownership of fractures (the world It allows 50 % purchases), Olisia He placed himself as a huge competitor to the financial axis.

“It is the easiest way to travel ever. You don’t have to pack and empty.”

Robin Edwards, President the world Sales and Marketing Committee

Meanwhile, a new ship of storylines, a Miami-based startup, for 530-Condo MV narration It is wild mint: a solar-powered water farm, a microric school, and a private school of K-12. In addition to 50 % royal models, there is a 25 % time purchase option from $ 600,000. “Usually, empty nests are demographic, but once we released education programs, more families began to be attracted towards us, and we saw average age heading down,” said the founder and CEO of Alister Punton.

Furniture offers on board Olisia and MV narration-Outdoor sofas, mid-century dining chairs, compact book covers, and wide wooden floors-which were raised from the five-star Miami Hotel, and indeed I am sure that hotel chains will soon want a piece of movement. He said: “You see companies like Ritz, Four Seasons, and the safety of the area of ​​cruises.” “What all the hotel companies that are shared in large residential portfolios shared – the brand living. It is not a matter of whether there will be many companies in the future entering the residential area in the sea. It is just an issue when“

But “Matthew” is a confusing question – he has not yet yet made any of the young tools in space, and many of them from the table, have provided their final answers. The date of the launch of the stories is currently 2027. Instagram Other residential biography, dreamHe says it was launched in 2024 (he did not; a representative of the company says now that history is 2027.) M/y njord It seems in an actual neutral, although its CEO says the main announcement will come later this year.

Even with some buyers in the units, the launch of a ship of this scale is a risky and highly expensive proposal – as it can from hundreds of millions, or to billions. “It takes some time to build an unparalleled ship,” Ponton said. “For projects of this size, it is natural that there is a movement on dates.”

For potential buyers, the apartment in the sea is not like any other properties. “It is an investment in lifestyle,” it is not a financial decision, “said Rich.

on the worldThe owners of millions of millionaire and billionaires are people who can bring about big things, whether this is found internationally notorious artwork or the purchase of Kovid vaccines early in the crew in 2021-which is associated with the period of the measure in Dubai, got the ship to the sea while the parts of the parts are still on the ground.

Not that the world It is inhabited by a handful of Snobs. The owners I met on the plane were involved in quiet philosophy. The housing in which it remained (a group of free subcontractors presented as an unfamiliar privilege, giving that the media rarely sailing on the plane) had a coating art on the walls, the geodes on the wardrobe, and the receiving basil factory alongside a group of peony from the flower seller on the plane. The market adjacent to Fredy’s Deli Fauchon Paris Foie GRAS and the favorite flavors of Ben & Jerry’s owners.

comic It is displayed directly outside, within the reach of alternative bananas.

This article appears in April/May 2025 Fortune issue with the title “A Pied-ár-MER for lifelong travelers.”

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