For almost fifty years this striking character has applied architectural nous to a dazzling array of commissions, including private homes for the superannuated, grand, conceptual interiors, and all manner of radical side projects.
Marino-let’s call a spade a spade and anoint him with the mantle of ‘starchitect’-is a man obsessed with style. I call myself an interior architect, but for me interior, exterior and landscape architecture, they’re all the same. “I feel my style is something that defines the time in which we live,” he said with characteristic zeal, “in that it combines many things: art, textiles, furniture, and a very definite modernity in architecture. Here was the embodiment of their world: an ‘on the money’ obsessive with the highest regard for the well crafted.
He told tales of clean lines and daring façades, of risk taking and no-brainer beauty. When architect Peter Marino-a vision in black leather-sat down to talk to Vogue Italia, the venerated style bible must have thought they’d struck gold.
