![]() Your new Phaidon book just came out, and looking at its sleek, elegant black cover, you can immediately see your sensibility. Goldstein sat down with Marino to discuss the arc of his life’s work. To celebrate the publication of Phaidon’s Peter Marino: Art Architecture, the definitive tome surveying his commissioned art projects, Artspace editor-in-chief Andrew M. ![]() ![]() He has also returned to his roots, making sui generis artworks of his own. Today arguably enjoying the pinnacle of his career, Marino is full of ambitious plans and thoughts about his legacy. Tomilson Hill, the vice chairman of the Blackstone Group. In addition to his commercial buildings, Marino is working on a slew of private projects, including a home on top of a mountain in Lebanon and several in the Hamptons and elsewhere for bankers at Goldman Sachs and Safra Bank, and one client he describes as “a rogue bond trader in Mexico.” (“You really do need money to build nowadays,” Marino says.) But one project in particular marries the architect’s themes of art and design: a Chelsea building for the developer and collector Michael Shvo that will feature private residences, a new Lehmann Maupin gallery, and the new art foundation being founded by J. There is work by Anselm Kiefer (Marino has 12 in his Aspen home), Richard Prince (“I’m very close to Richard because we’re born three days apart”), Antoine Poncet, Thomas Struth, Johan Creten, Arman, Joel Morrison, Nancy Grossman, Vik Muniz, Georg Baselitz, Donald Moffett, Rudolf Stingel, Cy Twombly, Sarah Charlesworth, Damien Hirst, Anthony Pearson, Dan Colen, and Francesco Clemente, to name a few. (A photograph of his daughter, taken by Steven Meisel, was mixed among them on a recent afternoon.) A fuller scope of his taste-which was celebrated in a show of his collection at the Bass Museum in 2015-can be be absorbed around the office. Around his firm’s office, art is clearly the base note of creativity.Ĭarved African tribal sculptures (“my absolute favorite,” he says) stand on plinths around his private office like sentinels Robert Mapplethorpe photographs line his walls, a small fraction of his 142-piece collection of the photographer, the world’s largest in private hands. Marino has made contemporary art the centerpiece of his architectural approach from the beginning of his career, when he got his start doing commissions for Andy Warhol and his extraordinary circle of creatives and luxury titans, and today few of his projects conclude without the presence of a showstopping piece of art that he commissioned for the site. Black in every permutation, white, and heavy metal are his signatures. Famously clad in a black leather uniform of his own design, with silver skull and claw rings clattering on his fingers, the architect is remarkable muscled for a man in his late 60s, with the biceps of a Tom of Finland pinup and the close-cropped mohawk of a biker-gang capo. Marino himself, in person, reflects something else: their brute commercial power. Sleek, near-Platonic ideals of refinement, these stores convey the fashion companies’ elegant brands. ![]() He has similar architectural dominance of Rodeo Drive, New Bond Street, Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui, and other global luxury meccas. For visitors who are curious to see the finished projects, they have only to walk a block south to 57th Street, where seven of the poshest stores- Fendi, Hublot, Louis Vuitton, etc.-are Marino’s handiwork. The floors are scattered with swatches of luxurious materials, from marble to high-gloss leather, all possible accoutrements to his famously sleek designs. There are “war rooms” scattered around the duplex office space dedicated to his different clients one, empaneled in quilted black, is dedicated to a new Chanel flagship another is for Dior a third is devoted to La Samaritaine, the venerable Paris department store Marino is rehabbing in “a big restoration, and that’s really fun,” he says. On the 36th floor of a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper, the architect Peter Marino marshals dozens of designers to carry out some of the most luxe building projects the world has to offer.
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