Mario Buatta probably needs no introduction to readers of this column but this extraordinarily talented, droll decorator has been giving us the slip for years. We finally pinned him down in the Manhattan apartment of one of his clients, a week before a reception at the Union Club, where the New York School of Interior Design was to be honoring him by naming their new materials library “The Mario Buatta Atelier”. Christopher Cypher, President of the NYSID rightly says, “Mario is iconic and we are proud to claim him as our own.”
