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Like his mentor and early patron Andy Warhol, Marino relishes playing the provocateur, and a certain fearless precocity has only helped him since he started his practice in 1978, in his late 20s, with a dazzling troika of commissions. “First I did the private home of Andy Warhol,” he says. “Then I did the Manhattan apartment of Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent, and then I did a Park Avenue apartment for Gianni and Marella Agnelli. That was quite a way to burst upon the scene. I got a very big push thanks to Andy at the start of my career.”
Chanel’s global CEO, Maureen Chiquet, has worked with Marino on several retail projects and notes that the architect studies what’s on display at Lagerfeld’s runway shows in the Grand Palais and then “infuses this inspiration into his boutique designs. He has commissioned artists to make site-specific pieces inspired by Chanel… He found Jean-Michel Othoniel to create sculptures reminiscent of a strand of pearls.”
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