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"Remembering AD100 Designer Alberto Pinto\nRemembering the AD100 designer renowned for his opulent, grand-scale interiors\nIn the living room of interior designer Alberto Pinto's Rio de Janeiro apartment, a painting by Nancy Graves hangs above a Pinto-designed sofa, and the dark-wood chairs are by William Haines. Featured in the September 2011 issue of Architectural Digest, the apartment was renovated by architect Thiago Bernardes of Bernardes + Jacobsen. The open staircase is framed in polished chrome.\nFashion designer Hubert de Givenchy inspired Pinto to acquire a 1920s-era apartment in Paris (AD, April 1993). In the main salon, the framed images are Pompeian wall studies and the sculpture on the cocktail table is by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse. In the hall beyond hangs a hunting scene by Frans Snyders.\nA detail of Pinto's Paris dining room shows a particularly opulent touch\u2014an 18th-century English mahogany urn on pedestal nestled into a niche entirely clad in bottle-green velvet.\nChinese porcelains are mounted on the green velvet walls of the Paris dining room, along with an 1889 painting by J. A. Meunier. The chairs are Russian, the sofa is Italian, and the carpet is a Charles X Aubusson.\n\"I wanted an Edwardian style [bedroom] with the ambience of Central Europe,\" Pinto explained to AD when discussing the genesis of his private sanctum in the City of Light. An allegorical painting is displayed above an American Empire sofa, and a collection of opaline vessels fills the \u00E9tag\u00E8re.\nFor the villa of architect Olivier Cl\u00E9ment Cacoub and his wife, Danielle, in Cap-Ferrat, France\u2014which appeared in the February 1983 issue of AD\u2014Pinto decorated the grand salon in cool colors. The walls are graced with 18th-century engravings.\nAn iridescent Boussac fabric lines the resplendent Buenos Aires sitting room of Jean-Pierre Marcie-Rivi\u00E8re and his then-wife, Rosemarie Kanzler (AD, October 1989). The residence was renovated by architect Jos\u00E9 Maria Garc\u00EDa Calvo and decorated by Pinto. Furnishings include an ebony armoire with lacquer doors, fringed Knole sofas clad in velvet, curvaceous Victorian chairs, and a William and Mary stool."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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