Cultural Contexts in Interior Design - A Case Study on Alberto Pinto

CULTURAL
CONTEXTS IN
INTERIOR DESIGN

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Interior design can be explained as an art and science of augmenting the interior look of a
building or any other structure to enhance its pleasing ambiance. The report would be examining
how interior design and cultures are having inseparable relationship, and how cultural
phenomenon are affecting the texture of interior design (Karimov and Karimova, 2021) With this
regard a case study would be articulated about Alberto Pinto who has been one of the most
salient architectural digest and having a range of affiliations with his name. Here a deep study
would be carried out about how the prevailing culture affected creativity of Alberto Pinto's
creativity.
MAIN BODY
Culture of interior design is having its very old history, prehistoric human used to live in
caves and some other natural structures, the existence of human-being on this planet is supposed
to be around for 2 million years. Eugene- Emmanuel said it in (1814-79) about shelter making
process of human-being. So from the information it can be deciphered that the interior design
would be having latter existence than the inception of human asylum (Neves and Pombo, 2020)
Culture word came from the term “cult” which means to get tended or to care for
something. It can be explained as “ care and cultivation”. The culture is a constellation of values,
attitudes, morality, customs and norms which are for a particular group and are being passed
form one generation to another. From the viewpoints of (Appelgren, 2019) culture is the way of
life” which is guiding different life related practises of a particular group.
Alberto Pinto who has been one of the most cherished interior designer. He was active
from 1945 to 2012, in his career he has achieved a number of awards and affiliations for his great
work and ability to bring something ground braking for his clients. He was a resident of Place
des Victoires in Paris. He was having great impact of cultural aspects, for instance he was born
in Casablanca, and his father belonged to Argentina and mother from Morocco, he accepted that
Morocco made him open-minded person with higher generosity.
As Alberto Pinto has shown his preference for Volume, Eclecticism, space and light over
form of style, it is living testimony that there were some cultural forces which were influencing
his way of working in the field of interior designing. There are multiple aspects of culture such
as historical, locational, materiality, technology, place etc. which are behind fabrication and

grooming of architecture. These all elements are having their influence on the creativity used by
Alberto Pinto.
There are number of elements of interior design for example- space, form, line, light,
colour, pattern, texture etc. over time, different interior design trends took place and it can be
seen in the work of Albert Pinto. Who is one of the biggest admirer of colour and lighting rather
than any design. He strongly believes that if the colour and lighting is proper with bigger space
and volume then the best interior design can be prepared. He had belief that pattern and texture
must be opened so can give positive and open vibes to client.
Alberto Pinto started working with his sister Linda Pinto for more than 30 years (Ireland,
2018) due to some by birth identities he was having sort of cultural constellations which were
being reflected behind his work. His family was not native of the nation at the same time he was
serving his clients across the broader so there were rigours need for him to go with different
styles to meet the requirements of his clients. He had great influence of mixed culture, when he
attended institution to hike his knowledge of decoration and architects he found his early thought
decisive.
In October 1992 he said that he was not having any specific style of designing the houses
since he had beliefs in brining the best level of comfort to his clients. It would be having some
historical reasons behind. Since the time when he was serving some historical aspects were
hugely responsible for his work. In the mid of twentieth century the Impressionism came into
existence and in franc it started being reflected in painting, music, and architectures too (Cao,
2021)
Specifically after 1960s the post-war immigration took place, and people form different
communities took shelter there in franc which paved way for mixed type of culture. It can be
seen in the work of Alberto Pinto (Lee, 2020) He supported the design which gives comfort
rather than reflecting certain set of thoughts, he loved space, and volume in benefit of his clients.
So it shows that historical events were directly related to the work of Pinto.
Historically this was the time when commercialization was growing faster, Pinto became
one of the most common name when it came to interior design, due to prevailing circumstances
he also worked for commercial, and contract projects, along with residential work. Where he was
engaged from beginning.