Someone get Peter Marino to North Korea, quick.
The leather-clad designer pulled off the astonishing “diplomatic feat” of getting three Parisian homeowners to allow him to run his client Blackstone’s J. Tomilson Hill’s air-conditioning line through their — gasp! — wine cellars.
Hill’s wife, Janine, recounted the tale while presenting Marino with the French Institute Alliance Française’s Trophée des Arts award. The legendary architect tells us he swung it by painting their lobbies for free “to get their permission.”
“It’s called trading. That was the old way everybody did it,” Marino told us, adding that we’re not the first to suggest him for a gig at the State Department.