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Sunday, November 18, 2012

AD100 interior decorator Alberto Pinto, who died in Paris on November 5 at the age of 69, left a polished, protean legacy in the design world. The projects that came out of his 70-person Paris office were often swashbucklingly dynamic, replete with overscale patterns, bold color schemes, and sumptuous appointments that found favor with Middle Eastern royals and international captains of industry. A study in Cairo was paneled with wood inlaid à la parquet de Versailles, while a Geneva dining room’s Louis XVI scheme seemed to await the arrival of Marie Antoinette..