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" My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class. "
Peter Marino
Speech
Class
Money
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" All bronzes are made to be touched. Bronze is a sensual 'living' material. The sweat and oil of your palms adds to the patination. "
Peter Marino
Sensual
Made
Your
" Nine out of nine architects start with a sketch, and then they say, 'What should we make it out of?' I start from the bottom up - what should it be made out of - and then I worry about what should it look like. The material, the color of the material, the way it feels, and the way you respond to it is every bit as valid as the form or the shape. "
Peter Marino
Say
You
Look
" 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?' "
Peter Marino
Beginning
Architecture
Myself
" I believe that women would crawl across broken glass to get a cool pair of shoes. "
Peter Marino
Women
Believe
Shoes
" What frustrates me is florists who put everything at the same size on the table. I like it when there's mountains and valleys. "
Peter Marino
Everything
Table
Size
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Now
Work
Architecture
" Ginza! Where I've done two Chanel towers and Louis Vuitton and Dior stores. I just feel at home there. "
Peter Marino
Where
Home
Just
" 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
Me
Want
" I simply loathe the crude 1960s distinctions between commerce and art. For me, Warhol and pop obliterated all of those separations - that was the whole point of the Brillo Boxes and Campbell's Soup Cans. And believe it or not, in 2009, moronic journalists are still saying to me, 'Your work is so commercial.' "
Peter Marino
Me
Art
Believe
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Half
Now
Someone
" The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design. "
Peter Marino
Good
Peninsula
Great
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Legacy
I Am
Happy
" I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness. "
Peter Marino
Look
Creativity
Happiness
" It's a good marriage because each of us is what we are, allows the other one to be themselves, and appreciates each other for the right reason. You know, it's rare that you'll find two people who don't try to change the other person and let everyone be what they are. "
Peter Marino
Good
Change
People
" 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
Me
" I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque. "
Peter Marino
Luxurious
Baroque
Like
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Work
Day
Creative
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Experience
Know
Start
" That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas. "
Peter Marino
Fifties
Me
Spirit
" 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! "
Peter Marino
Fashion
Clients
Brand
" Not enough people enjoy working with color, which delights and inspires me. "
Peter Marino
Enjoy
Which
People
" Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness. "
Peter Marino
Work
Creating
Mean
" Motorcycle garb is the way I looked to Warhol. Then came the Armani suits. "
Peter Marino
Way
Then
Suits
" 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
More
" Koishikawa Korakuen Garden - one of Tokyo's oldest Japanese gardens, and one of the best spots for viewing the cherry blossoms. "
Peter Marino
Cherry
Best
Tokyo
" I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment. "
Peter Marino
Idea
Place
Should
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Myself
Artist
Art
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Design
Best
You
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Money
Women
Fashion
" If I need a pair of tennis shorts, I'll buy them online. I don't really care. Not going to go and try on a pair and see how my bum looks. Who cares? But for things that you care about - I mean, a jacket and a pair of trousers, you've got to try them on. "
Peter Marino
Care
See
Try