Peter Marino
Quotes by Peter Marino
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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!
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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.
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Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.
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Anytime I see an unusual combination of colors or patterns or texture, I buy it.
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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?'
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I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment.
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