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"Alberto Pinto's Rio de Janeiro Retreat\nUsing butterfly wings and earthy textures, the interior designer conjures a virtual portrait of Brazil in the sun-splashed rooms of his apartment\nThe living room of interior designer Alberto Pinto's Rio de Janeiro apartment, which was renovated by architect Thiago Bernardes of Bernardes + Jacobsen. A Nancy Graves painting hangs above a Pinto-designed sofa, and the dark-wood chairs are by William Haines. The open staircase is framed in polished chrome.\nAt one end of the living room, beneath a Marc Quinn painting, is a Pinto-designed sofa with cushions made from recycled vintage leopard coats; the chairs are by T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, and the candlesticks are by Kenzo Takada for Baccarat.\nOverlooking the Cagarras archipelago, a Marcel Coard table hosts an ivory turtle, an Art Deco vase, and sculptural coco de mer seeds.\nA Sam Francis painting joins a trio of bronzes by Jacques Darbaud.\nAntique fabrics from India cover pillows in the television room; Hubert le Gall designed the Romulus mirror.\nA work by Marcos Coelho Benjamin is displayed above the bar; the porcelain figurines are antique.\nMade of butterfly wings, the striped panels in the dining room provide visual interest while concealing shelves for china and silver. Atop the woven-rope rug is a Brazilian white-painted wood table and Robsjohn-Gibbings chairs upholstered in cheetah-spot cotton.\nStriped in black and white, Pinto's bedroom features a Mimmo Paladino painting and a massive ammonite fossil; the bed linens are by Frette.\nBleached-mahogany cabinets line the designer's dressing room, where a button-tufted Italian chair is covered in faux crocodile.\nHerv\u00E9 Van der Straeten sconces from Ralph Pucci International frame a reflection of a portrait by Marc Quinn in the master bath; the vanity was custom made.\nAlso in the master bath, a desk is surmounted by an Almir Reis photograph of volleyball on Ipanema Beach; the parchment lamps are 1970s, and the chair is by Philippe Hurel from Profiles.\nThe bleached-wood walls of a corridor, and a guest room beyond. Flanking the doorway are ebonized bookcases bearing Thai brass-and-tin deer-shaped candleholders.\nWith walls stri\u00E9d in a soft blue, this guest room is furnished with a bold headboard, a Baroque red-lacquer secretary, and a suzani coverlet.\nA cool blue-and-beige guest room is enlivened by splashes of red, courtesy of quilts from the Savoie region of France; over the '40s desk is a Jean Roy\u00E8re gilt-wood mirror, and the Paul Dupr\u00E9-Lafon lamps are covered in Herm\u00E8s leather.\nModeled after the work of Alexander Calder, another guest room's maguey-fiber wall hanging was hand-woven in Central America in the '70s; the Pinto-designed bed is upholstered in a mix of leather and fabric."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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