![]() ![]() He has also completed projects on London’s Bond Street, including the latest renovation of Louis Vuitton.Įvery year, he creates new stores for Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and Dior - all with the latest innovations in design. Marino reigns supreme in Place Vendôme in Paris, where he has completed eight stores, including Bulgari last year and Chanel just this past May. His ambitious task is to defeat the oversold narrative of virtual retail by bringing real people back in the tens of thousands to his newly designed shops, wherever they are - Paris, London, Seoul, Tokyo, Rome. While checking progress at the Tiffany building site, Marino is keenly aware of the more abstract and daunting new challenge he’s also confronting: the metaverse. Fittingly, he also lives on East 57th Street, and his office is around the block on 58th. flagship stores for Chanel and Dior (just east of Louis Vuitton on East 57th Street), Zegna, and Fendi (just west and south of Bulgari on Fifth Avenue). In line with his record-setting habit, he designed the U.S. It was the first time the same architect had been given the opportunity to reimagine those three corners, which are so intrinsically a symbol of New York. He previously designed major renovations of the Louis Vuitton and the Bulgari flagship stores, diagonally across from each other. With a target inauguration date of Easter 2023, he will have finished redesigning the Tiffany building, his third store on the most coveted luxury intersection in the world. when he arrives on his motorbike to check on his latest triumph in New York: conquering the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. Marino, 72, is in this usual all-black (and all-leather) attire - black cap, straps, chains, intimidating skull rings, dark shades, etc. He even manages to play tennis, wearing black, of course, the shade of his iconic uniform. He is involved in dozens of projects on four continents in three equal categories: luxury stores, private residences, hotels, and residential towers. Furthermore, Marino is chairman of the Venetian Heritage foundation and has published seven lavishly illustrated books. In fact, he was hired to design the Oriental Gallery of the Porzellansammlung, the Porcelain Collection at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Last year he completed the first renovation of the beautiful 1895 Rogers Memorial Library building on Jobs Lane in Southampton, which now houses the Peter Marino Art Foundation, his private museum.īesides privately collecting works by major contemporary artists - Warhol, Basquiat, Kiefer, Muniz, and more - he has one of the world’s greatest troves of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes, possibly the largest assemblage of Les Lalanne sculptures, and a stunning array of eighteenth-century Meissen and Chantilly porcelain. He certainly has the best private gardens in the Hamptons. It is the same mantra that’s brought him to an unprecedented pinnacle of success: Marino is the world’s most sought-after architect for luxury fashion stores and has a distinct habit of continuously setting new records. The attention to detail is laser sharp, ensuring the whole appears natural. Every item must be unique and well-balanced. She has a couple of ideas and in a matter of minutes the decision is made: she will plant Hakonechloa Macra, a slightly golden Japanese forest grass that would look very good under a nearby Gingko tree.Įverything here defines Marino’s mantra. While we sit, Elizabeth, a gardener from a nearby nursery, shows up to discuss filling a border behind the fountain. This particular day comes with a bonus: an endless wall of multicolored azaleas along the main lawn in full bloom. “It just brings back sanity and pleasure.” Marino’s own garden sprawls over 12 acres of trees and carefully designed paths that venture into orchards, around flowering beds, and past dozens of magical Les Lalanne animal sculptures and bronze-leafed sofas scattered on the lawn. ![]() It does not matter if it is a private or a public garden,” he adds. “It is so important to sit in a garden and enjoy it, without computers and phones,” Marino says. ![]() Behind us, farther away, we can hear a gentle stream flowing from the arm of one of the Les Lalanne sculptures - a thin figure made of delicate bronze cabbage leaves - into a rectangular reflecting pool hosting water lilies and the occasional frog. The water drops on the old, rugged stone evoke a sense of timelessness while we chat in the warm afternoon sun. “And yes, the logistics were complex, but it was worth it.” Indeed, it was. ![]() “I fell in love with it, and I knew I had to bring it here,” Marino says. He found it at a small auction in Bordeaux a few years back, when he was busy working on a couple of vineyards in the region. PETER MARINO, THE world-famous architect, invites me to sit on a bench in his Southampton garden, facing a large early eighteenth-century stone fountain. ![]()
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