Peter Marino

Fashion / 2 Jul 2018

Stairways to retail heaven: the best treads in-store

In luxury boutiques around the world, staircase design is seriously on the up. Staircases constructed from intricate jigsaw pieces of marble, graphic folds of burnished metal, or spiralling organic forms, are enticing customers to venture into the upper echelons of a store. Here...

Fashion / 28 Feb 2018

Block buster: New York architect Peter Marino on delivering the luxury goods

Nobody else on the Place Vendôme looks even remotely like Peter Marino. Standing in front of the square’s landmark column, he is dressed in his habitual head-to-toe black leather, dark shades covering his eyes. Around his neck hang silver blade-like...

Fashion / 8 Feb 2018

Tony Chambers on why ‘less but better’ is the future for retail and design

We hear more and more that the younger generations are less interested in purchasing and owning things. They prefer to spend their money on experiences. Self-improving holidays, culture, live performances, eating out, eating in, yoga retreats, hiking Machu Picchu. While...

Design / 13 Nov 2017

Peter Marino puts a signature touch on new glass collaboration with Venini

‘This is only ever the third licensed design I’ve ever produced,’ says Peter Marino, the New York architect best known for luxury boutiques and interiors, as he fishes around for something in his leather fanny pack. He pulls out...

Watches & Jewellery / 25 Oct 2017

Glitter ball: Bulgari’s high energy homage to the city that never sleeps

Bulgari began honing its creative connection to New York in 1971, opening its first New York outpost at the Pierre Hotel. By 1972, it was so smitten by the city’s creative energy that it designed a celebratory ‘Stars and Stripes’ collection...

Fashion / 4 Oct 2017

Louis Vuitton taps Peter Marino for its Place Vendôme homecoming

What could be more fitting as a symbol of rebirth in the City of Light, than a golden sun streaming spiralling metal rays? That’s the resplendent installation that Louis Vuitton visual creative director Faye Mcleod conceived for the façade of...

Art / 29 Jun 2017

Material world: Peter Marino reflects on bronze, mythology and timeless design

Peter Marino is continually driven to make new and long-lasting marks on the creative world. Starchitect, artist, fashion house favourite, leather-clad luminary and landscape gardener; a few of the many titles Marino has collected over an ongoing 45 year career...

Lifestyle / 31 May 2017

Write on: Peter Marino lends his distinctive aesthetic to Caran d’Ache

Caran d’Ache is no stranger to interdisciplinary collaborations – previous design partners include watchmaker MB&F, architect Mario Botta and designer Paul Smith. It makes sense, then, that the Swiss writing instrument maker would partner up with a man of...

Art / 14 Mar 2017

Peter Marino delves deep into his collection for a new Robert Mapplethorpe show

On the surface, rugged starchitect Peter Marino and the late Robert Mapplethorpe are a pretty good match, the former’s robust leather daddy look an appropriate bedfellow to the late-photographer’s erotically-charged, occasionally BDSM-heavy work. The affinity is more than visual though:...

Fashion / 22 Dec 2016

State of the art: Peter Marino’s gallery inspired store for Louis Vuitton

In his Phaidon-published tome Art Architecture released earlier this year, starchitect Peter Marino explored the relationship between the design of his majestic retail spaces and the site-specific artwork he commissions for each interior. In his new vision for Louis Vuitton’s 11...

Design / 13 Sep 2016

Having a Thing: the props, pillars and peculiarities of personal brand building

‘Who’s the skinhead with the beard, tight suit and tattoos?’ A few years ago, a distinctive looking chap appeared on the front row of the fashion shows and caught the attention of other regular attendees. ‘He’s the buying director...

Design / 16 Aug 2016

Home slick: why we are tickled pink by Dior Maison’s new collection

The sumptuously furnished, Peter Marino-designed House of Dior opened on London’s New Bond Street earlier this summer and is the first to display the new Dior Maison collection. Creative director Isabelle Dubern was tasked with creating a range that reflects the DNA...

The leather-clad king of the modern retail maison. Marino was named in the Wallpaper* Power 200, our carefully measured ranking of the world’s pre-eminent design talent – see the full list below