‘This is alone anytime the third accountant architecture I’ve anytime produced,’ says Peter Marino, the New York artist best accepted for affluence boutiques and interiors, as he fishes about for article in his covering fanny pack. He pulls out his above-mentioned limited-edition design, a pen from a accumulating he advised for the Swiss cast Caran-d’Ache in April. It’s a beefy little scepter, topped with a skull and adorned in silver-coated eyelets and atramentous covering – which is of advance alike with Marino’s being at this point. He’s never not cutting it from arch to toe.
But today, Marino is at New York’s Museum of Arts and Architecture to bless the barrage of ‘Black Belt’, his new boutonniere accumulating with celebrated Italian bottle aggregation Venini. It does not absorb leather. ‘Well, I approved as adamantine as I could!’ he says, in acceptable jest. ‘I got the atramentous to attending as abundant as a covering band as I could.’
The acclaim angled vessels, brave in anemic shades of blooming and pink, are absolute with luscious, painterly bands of atramentous and abounding with peonies. ‘I accept a altered aesthetics from abounding architects,’ says Marino. ‘It’s not aloof about art; I like art that’s used, so I fabricated vases for flowers because I’m a annual freak.’
Ando Cosmos accumulating by Tadao Ando for Venini
Marino’s accumulating is the latest in Venini’s longstanding assignment with allegorical architects. Past collaborators accept included Ettore Sottsass, Gae Aulenti and Gio Ponti; aftermost month, the aesthetic bottle aggregation additionally launched a accumulating by Tadao Ando, blue-blooded ‘Cosmos’. It’s comprised of three boxlike argosy that accord to anatomy a all-around abandoned – the Japanese master’s brainwork on nothingness.
Seen in bike with ‘Black Belt’ (both collections are on appearance at Manhattan’s Les Ateliers Courbet this month), it’s a beheld assignment in the assorted art of glassmaking: Ando’s absolute geometries could not adverse added heavily to Marino’s bulbous, amoebic forms. ‘That’s the adorableness of alive with abundant architects – they are so altered from one another, and from the adroitness point of view, it’s consistently a abstruse challenge,’ says Silvia Damiani, of the Damiani ancestors of bequest jewellers, who acquired Venini aftermost year. Damiani believes the two worlds are accustomed bedfellows.
‘I anticipate a jewel is article that can ascertain your breeding and the way you dress,’ she muses. ‘Jewellery is abreast to you because it is on your anatomy and you abrasion it; and Venini works are abreast to you because they are in your house, and the places area you feel at home.’
