NORDIC STAR was originally commissioned by actress Virna Lisi, Italy's answer to Marilyn Monroe, who Brigitte Bardot once described as "the world's most beautiful woman." Lisi was born in Ancona, home to the CRN shipyard, and the yard was the natural choice for her to commission a yacht from. Featuring sumptuous Italian fittings, hand carved woods and antique furnishings, to step on board is to step back into a different era.