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" My father's house was on East 55th Street on 1st and 2nd Avenues. I'm fifth-generation Marino in the East 50s - I live on 57th Street. I can't be more East 50s. "

Peter Marino

Street

Live

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" I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment. "

" The French use gardens to show grandeur and the English to show how things have endured for hundreds of years, but for me, they're all about fantasy. "

Peter Marino

How

Fantasy

" Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art. "

" I'm really a fighter against modernism equaling brutalism. "

" There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art. "

" Koishikawa Korakuen Garden - one of Tokyo's oldest Japanese gardens, and one of the best spots for viewing the cherry blossoms. "

" I want to be the first person to animate bags - everything done for handbags bores me to tears - I want to make it more playful. "

Peter Marino

Person

Want

" Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years. And it's a joke because they're not even going to last our lifetime. I built a home for umpteen gazillion dollars on a gorgeous piece of property in Palm Beach, and 11 years later somebody else bought it and knocked it down. "

" One of my first fashion clients was Calvin Klein. We did his first freestanding stores. He was very exact and precise. But talk about high-fashion people who brand themselves! "

" The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design. "

" I don't sell anything. So, I have a personal image, but I think that's because I'm from an art background, and I'm an artist, and I think most artists do have personal images. I consider myself more in that category of the way an artist had a look. "

" Publicity doesn't really get me anything. Clients are not going to hire me for a $100 million building because I have a brand. They really want the product. "

Peter Marino

Want

Product

" I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque. "

Peter Marino

Luxurious

Baroque

" I've benefited enormously from an arts education and a music education in New York. When they cut the programs for funding, I was devastated. "

" I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?' "

" I work 12 hours a day, seven days a week - and I love it. I'm creative. I feel fulfilled. I'm from a solidly lower-middle-class background; I'm not from the world that I'm in now. So I appreciate it a lot. I've really got a rich, full life. "

" I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box. "

Peter Marino

Thinking

Think

" I believe that women would crawl across broken glass to get a cool pair of shoes. "

" I am very happy working for my European brands. My legacy isn't going to be a museum. Yet I would be very good at it. It's so painful. It's like everything - the same old guys - Herzog & de Meuron, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano - they don't pick original people. "

" If you want to come up with a really original design idea, and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all. "

" Ginza! Where I've done two Chanel towers and Louis Vuitton and Dior stores. I just feel at home there. "

" I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration. "

" If something's a high-margin product, I understand its importance to the store. "

" Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness. "

" That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas. "

Peter Marino

Fifties

Spirit

" People in Shanghai make a lot more money than the farmers in the rice paddies. The rice-paddy farmers are not buying Louis Vuitton bags, but the upwardly mobile ones in Shanghai, who are all working in Wall Street-type firms, are infinitely better-dressed than people in the West. Their women take this fashion thing seriously. "

" I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks. "

" When I opened Chanel in London, they were happy. People would go, 'Oh, I just came in to see it. It's so beautiful.' And you leave with a positive attitude toward the brand. Now, you don't really get that online. You don't go, like, 'Wow.' "

" In 1991, if someone came in with a $1 million budget for a boutique, I would have fainted. Nobody spent even half that. But now, the bar has risen very high. "

" I don't talk about myself in the third person. When I start doing that, you'll know I'm having an out-of-body experience. "