“The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design.” — Peter Marino Quote

The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design.

Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.

In 1991, if someone came in with a $1 million budget for a boutique, I would have fainted. Nobody spent even half that. But now, the bar has risen very high.

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

It's a good marriage because each of us is what we are, allows the other one to be themselves, and appreciates each other for the right reason. You know, it's rare that you'll find two people who don't try to change the other person and let everyone be what they are.

If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old.

Obama really changed the way in which design can be used effectively for a candidate.

The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.

We all have our preferences - some people go for birds - but for me, there's just something about the wolf; the design of it is really aesthetically pleasing.