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An Exquisite Book
23 May 2002
Format:Hardcover
I have an extraordinarily large library of books on interior design books and this one equals or surpasses the very best. The number and quality of the photos are without parallel. The book represents the very best in haute European design. Pinto's work now is rivaled only by Peter Marino's, others of this genre having died. The average homemaker looking for ideas to freshen up the family room will not find them here. But for anyone interested in seeing what perfection of detail looks like -- in upholstery, curtains, garniture, and the like -- every page of this book will show them. It is worth every penny of the price and should be in every interior designer's collection, if only to inform them and their clients of what superior upholstery design and lush color can do for a room.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A Classic!
16 Dec 2002
Format:Hardcover
I also do own a lot of books on interior design, and when it comes to looking in to the opulent french style, this is a book to own. Even if you are not going to do a room like the ones he does (which I suppose is extremely rare) his ways which objects, placement of furniture, various kind of traditional pieces, combination of textures and colors will give very good direction for working with this kind of inspiration, rather than the usual more country/cotteny feel so often done by others. His illustrations are very detailed, leaves you wondering if they were done before (as a service to his clients) or after the room was finished. (For himself, I suppose). A book to own.
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Residential Opulence for the 21st Century
8 Feb 2008
Format:Hardcover
For those who enjoy new opulent traditional interiors, this book showing residential projects designed by the Moroccan-born interior designer now based in Paris will no doubt delight. As a director for a photography agency specializing in architecture and interior for major shelter magazines, Alberto Pinto developed a rich, eclectic, and very photogenic style, becoming a "full-fledged decorator in the seventies". While careful scutiny might find the schemes less than fully developed, it is tasty eye-candy none-the-less and the general intent strong even if some of the details are off-kilter. The stylist in him often mixes the unexpected with the traditional, and the common with the fine to favorable results. In many cases, his work is a refreshing take on the "Style Rothschild" with more gilt, ormolu, and passementerie one might think possible, but with an eye towards controlled decoration rather than just piling it on.
Featured are a lavish mansion on the Champ de Mars, two sumptuous Left Bank apartments, a substantial duplex apartment in New York City referred to as a "pied a terre", a seven story Manhattan townhouse of grand proportions, a Geneva apartment, two haciendas in Mexico, a seaside house presumed to be in the Hamptons, an airy house in Marbella, a chalet in Courchevel, the dining room and indoor swimming pool of a Left Bank mansion, a duplex apartment in a modern Cairo building, an English manor house, and the designer's own apartment on the Quai d'Orsay. This apartment, formerly the home of shoe designer Roger Vivier, is as grand as a neo-classical Russian palace. One of the more intimate spaces, a sitting room, is featured on the front dust cover, its walls upholstered in red-on-yellow toile de jouy dramatically criss-crossed with green velvet braid and a suite of 19th century chairs upholstered to match, whimsically contrasting with the serious Boulle furniture.
The text is translated and therefore stilted; only basic information is provided anyway. More is learned of Pinto's style from the glossy photos and panoramic color renderings. While many would find it much too much, more ridiculous than sublime, this reviewer enjoyed the drama of the grand decorating theatre. Not the best, but better than most of this genre.
Featured are a lavish mansion on the Champ de Mars, two sumptuous Left Bank apartments, a substantial duplex apartment in New York City referred to as a "pied a terre", a seven story Manhattan townhouse of grand proportions, a Geneva apartment, two haciendas in Mexico, a seaside house presumed to be in the Hamptons, an airy house in Marbella, a chalet in Courchevel, the dining room and indoor swimming pool of a Left Bank mansion, a duplex apartment in a modern Cairo building, an English manor house, and the designer's own apartment on the Quai d'Orsay. This apartment, formerly the home of shoe designer Roger Vivier, is as grand as a neo-classical Russian palace. One of the more intimate spaces, a sitting room, is featured on the front dust cover, its walls upholstered in red-on-yellow toile de jouy dramatically criss-crossed with green velvet braid and a suite of 19th century chairs upholstered to match, whimsically contrasting with the serious Boulle furniture.
The text is translated and therefore stilted; only basic information is provided anyway. More is learned of Pinto's style from the glossy photos and panoramic color renderings. While many would find it much too much, more ridiculous than sublime, this reviewer enjoyed the drama of the grand decorating theatre. Not the best, but better than most of this genre.
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