Kenny Schachter, the outspoken force behind London's Rove Gallery, may be the man who has everything. Not only is his home brimming with a mouthwatering collection of works by his blue-chip artists — including the Campana Brothers' plush alligator chair, Arik Levi's light sculpture, and faux-hardwood basement floorboards by Richard Woods — his garage is no joke, either. Rove Cars, the automotive arm of his operations, boasts a 1983 Alfa Romeo, several Porsche models, and a Z Car, the three-wheeled, 2005 Zaha Hadid commission that looks the way we imagine golf carts will in the distant future. The only thing Wayne Manor has over the Schachter estate is the Batmobile, it seems, but even that's about to change.
The art-dealer has tapped Hadid to create yet another vehicle for his personal use, this time on water. Rather than designing a boat of a predictable fluid shape with a shiny metallic finish, Hadid has emerged with something more foreboding: a fragmented, angular vessel sprung from a Christopher Nolan movie. The all-black, 8-meter-long Z Boat (cleverly staying on-brand with its name), is being built by French manufacturer Shoreteam in a very limited edition of 12, slated for availability in early 2013. And next on Schachter's wish list, rumor has it, is a Rem Koolhaas-designed hybrid sail- and motor-yacht that is already in the works. He appears to be assembling the world's first starchitect fleet.