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Press

Four decades of yachts, homes and objects, as others have written about them.

FT HTSI magazine spread: Jon Barnett at the rail of a yacht under the headline What’s yacht? And what’s not?

Financial Times · HTSI2024

What’s yacht? And what’s not?

“The Escape issue.” Brendan Greeley spends a day with Jon aboard the V68; photographs by Natalie Krick.

WWD Weekend page featuring an interior design sketch for Octopus by Jonathan Quinn Barnett

WWD WeekendMay 2025

Inside the World of Superyacht Design

Kristen Tauer on the studios behind the world’s largest yachts. Jon on six-star service at sea, Octopus, Silver Shalis and the art of being on the boat.

Boat International: Octopus at anchor off the Faraglioni rocks, Capri

Boat International

Legend of the Deep

Behind the build of Paul Allen’s 126 m Lürssen explorer Octopus — interiors by JQB Design. Read the article ↗

Boat International infographic mapping designers who trained under Jon Bannenberg

Boat InternationalMay 2015

The Six Degrees of Jon Bannenberg

Modern superyacht design began in Bannenberg’s Chelsea studio. Jonathan Barnett, 1987–1994, sits in the first ring.

Architectural Digest spread on the sailing yacht Gee-Dee

Architectural DigestDecember 1991

Sailing in Style Aboard Gee-Dee

Yacht and interior design by Jon Bannenberg, project-managed by Jon Barnett; photographs by Durston Saylor.

Rolls-Royce Whispers editorial cover showing the bow of MLR

Rolls-Royce · Whispers

Rocking the Boat: The Designs of Jonathan Quinn Barnett

Jets & Yachts editorial for Rolls-Royce owners, opening on MLR.

Page from the book IDEAS showing JQB Ltd’s Airyacht concept with SWATH ocean-stationing platform

IDEAS — Interior Design, Exterior Architecture & StylingBook

JQB Ltd — the Airyacht

A studio profile and the Airyacht: a lighter-than-air yacht with its own SWATH ocean-stationing and support platform. Pages 106–111.

FT Live speaker profile of Jonathan Quinn Barnett

FT Live

Speaker — Superyacht Designer, JQB Design

“Drawing and building superyachts since the late 1980s. Best known for the insides of Octopus. Before that, a model-builder at Industrial Light & Magic — he built the Golden Gate Bridge for Star Trek IV.”