Rooted in the Hispanic Golden AgeSix zones Three modes Circadian lightShortlisted · IYAA 2027
ZaguánArtesonadoCasetónCelosíaClaroscuroMacassar EbonyDark EmperadorOld World GoldMother-of-pearlHand-knotted silk
ZaguánArtesonadoCasetónCelosíaClaroscuroMacassar EbonyDark EmperadorOld World GoldMother-of-pearlHand-knotted silk
IThe Idea
An A320, reimagined as a flying estate.
For hospitality, negotiation, rest and arrival
VICEROY uses the volume of the A320 for generosity of space, a readable hierarchy of privacy and the quality of arrival. Seat count is never the measure.
The cabin is sized for six to eight guests, the occupancy at which every room should feel generous and composed. It offers 12 to 18 take-off and landing seats, subject to certification, and remains fully functional at that capacity. It is flown by two pilots, three on long-range flights, and served by two or three cabin crew. Six zones follow one another like the rooms of a house, from a hall that receives to a suite that shelters.
Three modes
One cabin, three ways of flying.
Mode
Reception & Hosting
First impressions, an aperitif, a curated social stage. A cabin 3.70 m wide lets a single-aisle aircraft receive its guests the way a house does.
Zaguán · Main Social Lounge
Mode
Business & Dining
Formal dining, negotiation and private briefings. The dining room is the working heart of the concept: dinner for six to eight guests, or a working table for four.
Winery & Dining
Mode
Rest & Overnight
Long-haul recovery over a 6,000 nm range. A suite and a full-size shower, so the principal arrives composed after thirteen hours in the air.
Master Suite · Bathroom
IIThe Patron
Designed for a client who prefers to be understood.
Design persona · The Patrimonial Chairman
Alejandro de la Torre · Design persona
He does not want to be seen. He wants to be understood.
Archetype
The Patrimonial Chairman
Age
54
Home base
Mexico City
Also at home in
Ciudad de México, Napa, Málaga-Marbella
Family group
Premium vineyards, luxury hospitality, legacy real estate
Travels with
Usually six to ten guests: family, advisers and close collaborators
His aircraft
A private representation platform, not a transport vehicle
What the cabin must communicate
Presence without aggression.
Wealth without display.
Heritage without nostalgia.
Exclusivity without cliché.
What he seeks
Architectural calm
Tactile richness
Sculptural restraint
Warm patina
Material depth
What he rejects
Loud luxury
Generic opulence
Glossy finishes
Trend-driven design
Theatrical excess
Signature feature
The onboard vinoteca.
His family's business is wine. On board it becomes a private ritual of hosting: a fluted, monolithic winery built into the architecture of the cabin, holding stemware, spirits and the wines laid down in their racks.
On its dark Emperador stone counter, under a warm line of light and against bronze-tinted glass, the crew opens a bottle and sets out the aperitivo: jamón, olives and breadsticks. A cabinet of precise character, never a caricature of a cellar.
A design persona is a fictional client archetype. Alejandro de la Torre stands for the ultra-high-net-worth patrons in Spain and Latin America for whom VICEROY is conceived, and guided every decision in it.
IIIThe Origin
Rooted in the Hispanic Golden Age.
A contemporary expression of the Hispanic world in private aviation
Most VVIP interiors speak a European language of luxury. VICEROY looks to the cultural identity shared across the Hispanic world, which rarely sees itself reflected in cabin design.
Its starting point is the Golden Age, when craft, materials and ornament crossed the Atlantic in both directions and changed along the way. VICEROY does not recreate the look of the period. It borrows its most theatrical device, light modelled against darkness, and turns it into a contemporary CMF language called Quiet Chiaroscuro.
The name recalls the courts of the viceroys in Mexico City and Lima: meeting points of Iberian, American and Asian crafts, carried by the Atlantic fleets and by the Manila Galleon across the Pacific.
Winery and dining, looking aft towards the suite
Five words to read the cabin
Zaguán
The covered hall between the street and the patio of a Hispanic house, a pause before the private world. In VICEROY, the entry.
Zone 01
Artesonado
The carved coffered ceiling of mudéjar tradition, reinterpreted as an illuminated ceiling above the dining table: ornament overhead, lit from within.
Zone 03
Casetón
The sunken panel of the traditional Castilian door. Carved into three walnut doors, into the lounge, the suite and the bathroom: thresholds are announced, not just crossed.
Zones 02, 05, 06
Celosía
A pierced lattice that screens without closing, with a mudéjar lineage that reaches the carved balconies of the Palacio de Torre Tagle in Lima. In the bathroom it screens WC from washbasin, without a wall.
Zone 06
Claroscuro
Light modelled against darkness, the device of Ribera and Zurbarán. In VICEROY it becomes a lighting principle and a palette.
Everywhere
IVThe Aircraft
The ACJ320neo, used generously.
Platform · Airbus ACJ320neo
The A320 is the world's most proven single-aisle platform. In VVIP configuration, as the ACJ320neo, Airbus describes it as the widest and tallest cabin of any business jet.
VICEROY spends that volume on spatial generosity, territorial sequence and the quality of arrival. The aircraft is the vessel. The cabin is the project.
VICEROY livery · Ground study at dusk
Cabin length
27.74m
Cabin width
3.70m
Cabin height
2.25m
Range
6,000nm
Maximum flight time
13hours
Cabin area, approx.
93m²
Take-off and landing, est.
12–18seats
Flight crew
2–3pilots
Cabin crew
2–3attendants
Reference figures for the ACJ320neo platform, retained from the VICEROY design brief. Configuration-dependent performance is not assessed. Seat capacity is an estimate for taxi, take-off and landing (TTOL), sized for six to eight guests and subject to certification. Crew seating is planned separately from the passenger seats: cabin crew use dedicated jumpseats and, on long-range flights, the third pilot occupies the flight deck observer seat for take-off and landing and rests in an enclosed crew bunk in flight.
Livery from above
Livery in profile
VThe Cabin
Six zones, one sequence.
From the zaguán to the master suite
Privacy in VICEROY is spatial. A guest understands where they belong without a sign, because the sequence of rooms is the access control.
Galley and crew sit forward, the social zones mid-cabin, and the private suite and bathroom aft: no service route crosses the suite. Three carved walnut casetón doors announce the key thresholds, into the lounge, the suite and the bathroom, and ornament peaks in the last two.
Cabin layout, nose to the left · Select a zone to walk to it
Walk aft
01 / 06
Z1
Zaguán
The zaguán, towards the casetón door
Entry & Reception
The threshold between the outside world and the VICEROY interior. A curved wall of lustre-glazed tiles, a bronze-tinted mirror and a hand-knotted carpet, near-black with a recessed bronze silk figure, receive the guest; a carved walnut casetón door announces the main lounge. Nobody arrives directly in the private rooms.
Z2
Main Social Lounge
Main social lounge
Hosting · Aperitif
The editorial moment of the cabin, where the design makes its fullest statement. A canopy in flame-retardant textile forms a slow, wave-like ceiling above ivory bouclé armchairs and tables in Dark Emperador stone veneer.
Z3
Winery & Dining
The winery, open for service
Formal meals · Meetings
A fluted, monolithic winery turns a service element into architecture. Beyond it, an illuminated coffered ceiling reinterprets the mudéjar artesonado over a table set for six to eight guests at dinner, or four at work.
Z4
Secondary Lounge
Family time beneath the sky screen
Media · Inner circle
A starlit ceiling, ivory bouclé and ebonised walnut. The zone absorbs guests from the dining room, hosts the inner circle, buffers the suite and doubles as the media room. One screen, two uses: a live view of the sky from exterior cameras, or a full cinema when the cove light panels rise.
Z5
Master Suite
Master suite and casetón door
Private rest
A refuge at the aft of the aircraft, visually enclosed and acoustically separated behind its casetón door. Here ornament is at its densest: a Baroque floral carving in ebonised walnut frames the bed, and the carpet is woven in wool and silk, from a bone centre to a smoked taupe edge.
Z6
Bathroom
The celosía between WC and washbasin
Full-size shower
The proof of the overnight promise, behind its own casetón door. Dark Emperador stone veneer, brass fittings, bronze-tinted glass and crackle-glazed tiles; a mudéjar celosía divides WC and washbasin, privacy without a wall.
Z1 · Zaguán
Scroll to walk aft
VIThe Light
Warmth belongs to the light.
Circadian light · Cove washes and focused pools
Move the light
The surfaces of VICEROY are specified near neutral, so the light can carry the warmth. It follows the body clock through the flight: brighter, cooler light to wake and work, then a warm 3000K evening of low cove washes and focused pools to dine and rest.
Set against the neutral daylight from the windows, the warm pools inside produce the chiaroscuro. The cabin becomes a dark, quiet envelope in which texture, craft and small touches of colour carry its character.
Secondary lounge
One screen, two uses.
In flight, the part of the screen integrated into the sidewall lining shows the sky outside in real time, fed by exterior cameras.
VIICraftsmanship
Materials that carry a history.
Quiet Chiaroscuro · Tierra y Oro
VICEROY is a dark, quiet envelope. Its character comes from texture and craft: quartersawn veneers, stone, antiqued gold, mother-of-pearl and hand-knotted silk, used in small and exact measure.
Quiet Chiaroscuro works on three levels: Tierra y Oro is the colour, Nobleza the material and Luz Barroca the finish. Three woods hold three roles: oak above, Macassar ebony on furniture and lower walls, walnut for the doors, the carvings and the seat bases. In the ledger, Nobleza gathers the woods, the stone, the leather and the textiles; Luz Barroca, the finishes that catch the light: gold, mother-of-pearl, tinted glass and lustre glaze.
Material ledger · 01 / 12
Nobleza
Macassar Ebony
Light
Shadow field · A2 Ebony Espresso, figure in B2 Tobacco Emperador
Heritage
The Manila Galleon, 1565 to 1815
Where
Furniture and lower walls, all zones
Craft
Quartersawn veneer only; low sheen, semi-matte, no lacquer gloss
Its stripes alternate near-black and warm brown within a single veneer, which makes it the natural wood of a chiaroscuro. It recalls the Manila Galleon, which for 250 years carried the goods of Asia across the Pacific to New Spain and on to Seville.
Material studies, generated or curated to show colour, grain and finish. Wood species from legal, traceable supply; materials and finishes remain subject to qualification.
Palette · Tierra y Oro
Eight tones, light to dark.
Quiet Chiaroscuro separates a material's intrinsic colour from its appearance under light. The palette specifies that intrinsic colour and keeps it near neutral; the lighting delivers the warmth.
Tone · One light tone, two bridge tones, five shadow tones
B1 Warm Alabaster, light tone
C1 Satin Brass, bridge tone
C2 Desert Clay, bridge tone
C3 Smoked Sepia, shadow tone
B2 Tobacco Emperador, shadow tone
A1 Obsidian Slate, shadow tone
A2 Ebony Espresso, shadow tone
A3 Charcoal Ground, shadow tone
Proportion · 65 / 30 / 5
Foundation Dark
65%
A1Obsidian Slate#282420
A2Ebony Espresso#231B19
A3Charcoal Ground#0F0E0C
Warm Relief
30%
B1Warm Alabaster#EAE3D6
B2Tobacco Emperador#513F31
Precision Accents
5%
C1Satin Brass#B79370
C2Desert Clay#A66E4E
C3Smoked Sepia#564D44
Values from the VICEROY Colour Study.
Material direction
Studies in texture and shadow.
Quiet Chiaroscuro. Ebonised and smoked wood veneers, Dark Emperador stone, hammered and fluted brass, ivory bouclé, cashmere and a terracotta textile.Terracotta and bronze glass. Ivory cashmere and a terracotta textile with geometric motifs, against stone, ebonised wood, bronze-tinted glass and sculpted brass.Ebony and cashmere. Charcoal wool, dark panels, ivory cashmere, ebonised wood and satin brass, with a small accent of stone.Emperador and brass. Bathroom detail with brass fittings, crackle-glazed tiles, bronze-tinted glass and a carved relief.Stone and cashmere. Dark Emperador stone with ivory cashmere, bronze-tinted glass, ebonised wood and a terracotta textile.Cashmere and hammered brass. Ivory cashmere, smoked wood, hammered brass and a terracotta textile.
Visualisations of the digital CMF moodboard, built from aviation suppliers’ products and systems and generated with AI assistance. They express the material direction and are not photographs of physical samples.
VIIIThe Film
Four minutes aboard.
The Film · IYAA 2027 shortlist
IXRecognition
On the road to Capri.
Shortlisted in the Private Jet Design, Concept category.
The winners are chosen by public vote, which opens in spring 2027.
VICEROY is presented in person or by private screening to owners, family offices, operators and completion partners.
Before you ask
Is VICEROY a real aircraft?
VICEROY is a self-initiated VVIP cabin concept designed for the Airbus ACJ320neo. It is developed to be adapted to a specific owner, aircraft and completion programme.
Can it be built?
The concept follows certification logic from the start, and its materials are chosen for flight. Wood and stone are thin veneers on honeycomb panels; only the carved walnut needs thicker stock. Key materials come from aviation supplier ranges, and a three-layer specification, covering the aircraft, the furnishing catalogue and the zones, gives every element its own sheet. Final materials, seat capacity and features such as the cinema screen remain subject to qualification and airworthiness approval with an approved design organisation and a completion centre.
How many guests is it designed for?
The cabin is sized for six to eight guests. It offers 12 to 18 take-off and landing seats, subject to certification: twelve individual seats, plus up to six positions on two lateral divans. It is flown by two pilots, three on long-range flights, and served by two or three cabin crew. The crew are seated separately from the passengers and have a dedicated rest area forward.
Can the design be adapted to another owner?
Yes. Quiet Chiaroscuro is a CMF system. Its palette, materials and light can be tuned to another owner, another culture or another layout while keeping its principles.
Who designed VICEROY?
VICEROY is the work of a team of three: Jorge de Luis for creative direction, CMF and brand experience, Markus Stephan for industrial design and modelling, and Andy Charlton of RENDA Limited for CGI and real-time visualisation.
XIPartners
Partners in craft.
The companies helping to bring VICEROY to life
VICEROY is developed together with specialist companies who contribute their materials, knowledge and craft.
Each partner is presented here with its contact details and a link to its website as each collaboration is announced.
Partnership enquiries
Companies that would like to contribute their craft to VICEROY are welcome to write to us.
