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designing hotels, eateries, boutiques,
maisons. One also finds a mind working,
synapses firing. A connoisseur of culture,
Toro speaks fluently of design styles and
movements, of Carlos Scarpa, Zaha Hadid,
and Luis Barragán. He draws compulsively,
too, and pulls out fully realized renderings
of furnishings based on representations of,
n the Saint-Germain-des-Prés
district of Paris, France, designer
Hugo Toro—the mind behind
some of the most audacious and
immersive spaces in contemporary
design—applied his flawless touch
to the apartment Saint-Pères. Drawn from
Toro's fine eye and quite literally his hand,
it is a space that resists labels and defies
doctrine. Most especially, the space is
chic, a singular mise-en-scène that is richly
illustrative of the designer's innumerable
references and impulses.
Talk to Toro for a minute, an hour, or for
any length of time at all and discover a
blazing creativity. Born to a French father
and Mexican mother, he was raised in
Paris, educated in both interior architecture
and design, and has traveled the world,
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