Alberto Pinto was
born in Casablanca to Argentine parents and was surrounded with
diverse cultures. He attended Ecole de Louvre in Paris and then moved
to New York to start a photography agency. His photography agency
specialized in decoration and interior design. This focus on design
led Pinto to take up interior design almost four decades ago
The seventeenth
century private residence at the Place des Victoires in Paris was the
home of Pinto's interior design and decoration agency. The agency
consisted of 60 people who worked on the design of large scale and
atypical places, such as private residences, corporations, hotels,
yachts, and private jets. Notable projects include the Oceanco's
Yacht Y708 and the Seaside Hotel Palm Beach, in Maspalomas.
In addition to
interior design, Pinto had his own home collection, complete with
furniture, tableware, table linen, and home accessories. Pinto also
collaborated with many home and tabletop manufacturers such as
Raynaud, Pierre Frey, THG, Ercuis, Aït Manos, and D. Porthault.
Alberto Pinto
Interior Design, under Linda Pinto’s management, strong of a team
of 80 employees, rigorously perpetuates what made the Master’s
success.
Eclecticism, luxury
details and refinement remain the key words when it comes to creating
entire universes for its prestigious clients worldwide: private
residences, office buildings, airports, hotels, yachts and jets.
The wide range of
Pinto’s style, marked by various cultural influences lets
traditional and modern meet in harmony, and adapts as much to
intimate rooms as to larger spaces, whether the projects be public or
private. Alberto Pinto Interior Design appropriates the eclectic
tastes of its international clients by adjusting the décors to suit
each one, and all the while adding an elegance which creates a
balance within such opulence.
Among Pinto’s
clients the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia as well as Qatar, along with
many other important private clients around the world for whom
residences have been designed and decorated in the United States,
Brazil, the Middle-East, Morocco, Tunisia, France and Europe.
Other projects can
be counted such as numerous hotels including The Lanesborough, the
Dorchester in London, the Grand Park Hotel in Gstaad, the villa
Rose-Pierre of the Grand Hôtel in Cap Ferrat, the Hostellerie de
Plaisance in Saint-Emilion, la Residencia and the Palm Beach in the
Canary Islands.
Alberto Pinto
Interior Design has also designed the interiors for many private jets
– Boeing BBJ 737, Boeing 747-8, Bombardier, Airbus A319 CJ – as
well as 10 of the 100 largest yachts in the world.
Remembering
AD100 Designer Alberto Pinto
Remembering
the AD100 designer renowned for his opulent, grand-scale interiors
TEXT BY
MITCHELL OWENS
Posted October 31,
2012
AD100 interior
decorator Alberto Pinto, who died in Paris on November 5 at the age
of 69, left a polished, protean legacy in the design world. The
projects that came out of his 70-person Paris office were often
swashbucklingly dynamic, replete with overscale patterns, bold color
schemes, and sumptuous appointments that found favor with Middle
Eastern royals and international captains of industry. A study in
Cairo was paneled with wood inlaid à la parquet de Versailles, while
a Geneva dining room’s Louis XVI scheme seemed to await the arrival
of Marie Antoinette.
Sleek, space-age
minimalism was part of his portfolio, too, as evidenced by his
designs for corporate headquarters, hotels, jets, and yachts (his
first was for a Gucci heir). Pinto, a native of Casablanca, was
especially gifted at creating seraglio-style settings, whose
stained-glass light fixtures and carved plaster were inspired by
traditional North African interiors—and are featured in his 2004
book, Orientalism (Rizzoli, 2004), one of several volumes about his
work.
In fact, very few
styles seemed beyond his talents. Pinto explained in the October 1992
issue of AD, “I have no specific style or period that I am
especially fond of,” adding, however, that he was enamored with
“immense rooms, partly because I pride myself on knowing how to
bring together immensity and comfort. Most people are afraid of
houses on a grand scale, but I’ve always been completely at home in
them.” Which perhaps explains why royals from the Middle East
flocked to his door when it came time to decorate a new palace.
For admirers who
could only dream of hiring Pinto for a full household makeover, he
also created covetable tableware for Ercuis and Raynaud, fabrics for
Pierre Frey, and table linens for D. Porthault. Some of these items,
along with signature collections of gutsy contemporary furniture,
lighting, and accessories, are sold in Pinto’s showroom at 14 rue
du Mail in Paris, which will continue under the guidance of his
sister and business partner, Linda Pinto.
Step
Inside Linda Pinto's Luxurious Parisian Apartment
After Linda Pinto
inherited the lavish Paris apartment of her brother, legendary
designer Alberto Pinto, she remade its interiors to reflect her
elegant yet relaxed sense of style
TEXT BY
FERNANDA EBERSTADT
PHOTOGRAPHY BY
RICARDO LABOUGLE
Posted April 30,
2015·Magazine
The celebrated
decorator Alberto Pinto, whose clientele included American
financiers, European aristocrats, and Middle Eastern royalty, was as
famed for his opulence as for his exacting standards. Those qualities
were evidenced not only in his indelible interiors but also in his
luxurious lines of furniture, lighting, china, and table linens. And
Pinto’s own Paris home—outfitted with Louis XVI chairs,
18th-century Chinese red-and-gold-lacquer furniture, and scenic
wallpapers—was the embodiment of his baroque style.
On the morning Pinto
died, in November 2012, he asked his sister and longtime business
partner a favor. “He said, ‘I want you to move into my
apartment,’” recalls Linda Pinto, the vibrant woman who now heads
the interiors firm Cabinet Alberto Pinto. “I said, ‘Don’t ask
me that, it’s too hard.’”
The siblings, born
and raised in Morocco, “had a very symbiotic relationship,” Linda
explains. “We weren’t just brother and sister—we’d
worked together for years, and I was with him at every step of his
illness. I already lived in the building next door, but Alberto said,
‘Please. That way we can stay together.’ So I said, ‘Okay, but
I have to do it my way.’”
In Linda’s hands,
the apartment, which overlooks the Seine in the elegant 7th
arrondissement, has been pared back to a more relaxed
classic-contemporary style better suited, she says, to her “simple,
family-centered life.” Every weekend her five grandchildren come
over to watch movies, and on Sunday evenings she often plays cards
with friends. “People always say it’s so serene here,” she
remarks.
Although its
neutral-tone wall treatments suggest an uncluttered purity, the place
nonetheless brims with beloved objets—most notably, Linda’s
menagerie of bronze chimpanzees, cloisonné zebras, and parrots made
of coral, ivory, and silver. Indeed, materials seem to have an almost
talismanic importance to the designer. Lamps, bowls, and candlesticks
made of rock crystal abound. “It’s a noble material, but simple,”
she says. “And crystal averts the evil eye!”
Though the entrance
hall was redone in a breezy, streamlined fashion, with abstract
carved-plaster paneling, the first thing that greets you is almost
comically round and heavy: Menine, a four-foot-tall Manolo Valdés
bronze figure with a bell-shaped skirt, named for one of the
ladies-in-waiting from Diego Velázquez’s painting Las Meninas.
“She is my guardian spirit—generous, strong,” Linda says.
“I love round shapes. I touch her bottom whenever I pass.” A gold
chain hanging from the statue’s neck bears an early-19th-century
penca de balangandãs, a collection of protective charms of the kind
once accumulated by Brazilian slaves.
The living room
contains a mixture of 20th-century art, including paintings by
Wilfredo Lam and Roberto Matta, and exquisitely crafted decor, such
as matching Ado Chale bronze cocktail tables. Covered in a
mother-of-pearl-like finish, the walls and ceiling bounce back the
Seine’s soft reflections. The taupe taffeta curtains are
hand-painted and embroidered with Japanese-style flowering branches.
Many of the furnishings showcase such Asian references: The doors of
a 1940s cabinet are in fact panels from an antique Coromandel screen,
while two ’20s gilded bergères are backed with
black-and-gold-lacquer paintings of pagodas and fishermen.
Alberto
Pinto: Signature Interiors
October 25, 2016
by Anne Bony
(Author), Linda Pinto (Introduction), Hubert de Givenchy (Foreword)
A lavish tome
featuring the completed interiors of the master decorator’s final
creations from around the globe. Revered as one of the greatest
decorators of the twentieth century, Alberto Pinto made his
distinctive mark on the world of interior design thanks to his style,
his extraordinary perception, and his perpetually renewed
inspiration. This new volume presents the latest creations by Cabinet
Alberto Pinto in its luxurious, comfortable, generous, and modern
signature style, revealing singular interiors that have never been
seen before—sumptuous hôtels particuliers, lavish apartments,
historical residences, and even a Middle Eastern palace—all of
which reveal the quintessential Alberto Pinto style.
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