![]() PMKami’s portraits can be really intense. Imagine living with his image on and off for several years-it actually made me feel closer to him. ![]() I’m not sure why, some paintings just take longer than others. It took a long time to build the Pantheon in Rome, too, I suppose, but both were worth the wait. PMThat painting took a very, very long time for Kami to paint, but it’s remarkable. She has said it’s the most serious portrait ever done of me.ĪMCDKami often depicts sitters with their eyes closed. He did my portrait, in fact it’s Jane’s favorite portrait of me. The portraiture I like because of the psychological intensity behind it. PMOh, I like them both, but for different reasons. ![]() I really have known you a long time.ĪMCDIn general, do you have a preference toward Kami’s portraiture or his abstract paintings? YZKThey were photographic images of two minarets in Iran that I mounted on canvas. PMI have two photographic works of towers from the early 1990s. YZKIt was around the time Isabelle was born.ĪMCDPeter, what struck you early on about Kami’s work? That’s the only marker I’ve got other than when I graduated high school. Peter Marino Was Isabelle born yet? She was born in 1991-that’s how I judge time, pre-Isabelle and after. One evening Peter and his wife, Jane, came over and we all went out to dinner to an Italian restaurant in TriBeCa. Kami We met in the early 1990s through a very close mutual friend, Charles, with whom I used to share a studio. How did you and Peter first meet each other? These work to integrate the original architecture of the space, like timber flooring and a tin ceiling.Alison McDonald I’m curious to start at the beginning. The bright purple and orange leathers of Raw Edge’s concertina chairs enhance the vibrant hues in the women’s Resort 2017 collection, while the rugged rope detail of the Campana brothers' hanging cocoon chair complements the store’s petrified wood and stone fixtures. Pieces from Louis Vuitton’s Objets Nomades furniture collection, created by leading designers, are also dotted about the space, which houses women’s and men’s ready-to-wear, leather goods, shoes, accessories, watches, jewellery and fragrance. ![]() I found the contrast cool, and the equivalent of carrying a Louis Vuitton handbag while visiting the great French monuments.’ 'I was struck by Penone’s earthy use of leather and wood in such a glamorous and obviously French setting. ‘I saw his show at the Palace of Versailles,’ Marino says. ‘If you visit the Louis Vuitton museum in Asnières, France, you learn that its monogram came from 19th century Japonism graphics,’ Marino explains.Ī moulded leather and bronze installation by the Italian artist Giuseppe Penone hangs in an adjoining room. Their markings echo both the iconic Louis Vuitton monogram, and its chequered Damier Azur pattern. The black and white installation took three people one week to paint, with the wall being angled to ensure that the columns are the focal point of the space. Twisted aluminium carbon fiber shelves offset tall pillars, decorated with abstract symbols by the Japanese artist Mukai Shuji. The minimalist interior of the new Soho space features gallery-like track lighting, and high-tech and hand-painted fixtures. In its New Bond Street maison, conceived by Marino in 2010, the scarf area of the store was imagined as a gallery, with individual scarves framed like works of art. ‘Soho’s identity as an arts district with studios and galleries was central to the development of the store design,’ explains Marino, whose spectacular designs for Louis Vuitton span London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Paris and Rome. In his new vision for Louis Vuitton’s 11,000 sq ft store in Soho, New York, which opened originally in 1998, Marino has looked to the art-focused heritage of the neighbourhood, envisioning its new interior as a gallery-inspired space. 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.
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