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My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I'm sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn't a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be.
— Peter Marino
Tags: sorry, design, people, you

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Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.
— Peter Marino
Tags: retro, mean, thinking, time, work
Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years. And it's a joke because they're not even going to last our lifetime. I built a home for umpteen gazillion dollars on a gorgeous piece of property in Palm Beach, and 11 years later somebody else bought it and knocked it down.
— Peter Marino
Tags: beach, down, think, home
I'm really a fighter against modernism equaling brutalism.
— Peter Marino
Tags: really, against, fighter
When I opened Chanel in London, they were happy. People would go, 'Oh, I just came in to see it. It's so beautiful.' And you leave with a positive attitude toward the brand. Now, you don't really get that online. You don't go, like, 'Wow.'
— Peter Marino
Tags: you, beautiful, attitude, positive
The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design.
— Peter Marino
Tags: design, service, great, good
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