Personalizing the sea
Interview with Aldo Mangili
People with a great care for details and excellence, love to be surrounded by pretty and functional objects in any situation, even when busy ploughing the sea during a race or in a relaxing yacht trip.
For this reason the firm from Bergamo Elyt creates high quality accessories personalized for pleasure yachts, suggesting solutions that will make life on board pleasant, according to the pay off “customizes your boat”.
Quality, utility, style are the concepts from which these products are created – from the fender-covers to the cushions, from the lamps to the glasses, from the shoes to the belts – that can be personalized with a logo, making every boat unique.
The president, Aldo Mangili, talks about how the firm was born and about the Elyt accessories.
How did you come up with the choice to focus on a collection of accessories to personalize pleasure boats?
The idea came on a boat during a trip with friends and from a banter against the owner for the not very pretty fender-covers. We began to talk about what the market offered in terms of quality and prices. I used to work in the field of textiles and clothing and my idea was to create a collection of fender-covers according to my view of quality and style and I gave them to the shipowner. This is how everything began.
Today, we create, produce and make partner firms produce glasses, shoes, towels, textiles, bags, clothes to wear on board and other objects that embellish and make cosier the sea life. To aim at excellence means to avail of the collaboration of firms specialized in specific sectors. Everything exclusively made in Italy.
Is it important the choice of textiles to make this kind of products?
The quality of the raw material has a fundamental importance in the creation of nautical products. The sea, especially, is very exigent and it strains any kind of material to the limit. Our research and development office allows us to create only top products. The Elyt quality doesn’t admit any kind of compromise, from the raw material to the wrapping, finishing and personalization, be it embroidered or laser-cut. This is why the thirty-year old Know-how of the founding associates is the essential heritage that Elyt puts to the disposal of its clients, both shipyards and shipowners. My specific experience is in the textile sector, others are focused respectively on high quality embroidering and on the renovation of spare parts of old boats. Even the colour can be personalized with Elyt. Elyt is a firm that loves the sea and it respects it and for the taint it uses colourings that meet the most severe international norms, to guarantee the highest solidity and resistance always in the respect of the environment.
What is your main target?
We supply numerous and prestigious shipyards, direct importers of boats produced in Europe and overseas, dealers and firms dealing with the laying up. Everyone seeks in our accessories high quality products and personalized exclusively with the name of the shipyard and/or the name of the boat.
Recently we have received many requests from private shipowners who found out about our products and want to personalize their boat everywhere is possible and they ask us for ever more gadgets to give to their guests as a reminder of the good times spent on the boat.
What is the dream yacht?
It’s a displaceable boat, it doesn’t have to be fast, people on a pleasure boat are not in a rush, it has to be able to comfortably welcome guests, few but real friends, it should allow even when sailing for conversation and to move freely, to have breakfast or dinner inside or on the prow and, why not, to enjoy a wonderful cigar while looking at the sun disappearing beyond the horizon.
What is the not-to-be-missed nautical event?
Genoa International Boat Show
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Tags: Aldo Mangili, Bergamo, Elyt, Genoa International Boat Show, high quality accessories, pleasure boats, Shipowner, shipyard
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