127 - Chris Duffy

Tower Bridge London

For 20 years plus now I've been making and designing in the realm of tables and furniture and so on but once in a while, I have an idea about about a boat and so get my amazing design team, I'm like, 'stop! it's time for a palate cleanser'. Forget furniture, forget everything. Here's this idea for a boat and we're going to spend one day taking my little tiny sketch and make it into an amazing photorealistic render, as to something that gets this idea across. That day, I designed a boat made of bamboo that had solar panels on the top and electric drive train, and I just thought it'd be a great idea to have take this sort of ancient, prehistoric technology for making boats, you know, and then fix that with the most up to date technology to make something undeniably green because the people that are making electric cars and green cars and these are things I love and everything interesting. So I spent the last couple of years developing it and it kind of taken on a life of its own and as soon as anything sort of leaks out about it. People want to join up like Cuca robotics who make the big robot arms and make all the cars and stuff. They're like, Oh, we love it. We've had City University and companies who want to come in on the drive power train. So when you're doing something that challenging, experimental and that original, you find other like minded people and these insurmountable issues suddenly become doable,

An apartment in Southern Spain