54 Quotes by Peter Marino

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.

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

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

Not enough people enjoy working with color, which delights and inspires me.

What frustrates me is florists who put everything at the same size on the table. I like it when there's mountains and valleys.

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.

I'm really a fighter against modernism equaling brutalism.

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.

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?'