
Peter Morton
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Search complete. 6 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Peter Morton".
Nov 3, 2026
Restaurant Sites and Scalable Concepts with Will Knox_Ep 38
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5:20Will KnoxGUEST
And then in 1982, the Hard Rock Cafe came into L.A. And I snapped my fingers and I said, you know, San Francisco could use one of these.
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5:33Will KnoxGUEST
And I didn't really know the owner of the Hard Rock Cafe, Peter Morton, but I just called him up cold.
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5:39Will KnoxGUEST
And I said, you know, I'm from San Francisco.
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5:41Will KnoxGUEST
Would you be interested in maybe opening up one of these in San Francisco? I think I could put a group together, you know, being who I was, a little bit of moxie.
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6:13Will KnoxGUEST
Four months later in San Francisco, through a colleague and friend of mine, we found the Hard Rock Cafe in San Francisco.
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6:20Will KnoxGUEST
And then he started calling me more and more and getting me more involved with the early Hard Rock development.
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6:26Will KnoxGUEST
So I did all the early Hard Rock site development for west of the Mississippi because he and his partner split up the United States and His partner had east of the Mississippi and Peter Morton had west of the Mississippi.
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6:39Will KnoxGUEST
You know, one thing led to another.
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3:06Patricia MaryNARRATOR
Complementing the room's walls and furniture is a purple and cream tiled fireplace decorated with blue and green pattern plates.
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3:17Patricia MaryNARRATOR
Their residential clients include the creative artist agency co-chairman and managing director, Byron Lord, the Hard Rock Cafe co-founder, Peter Morton, and Kevin Wendell, the CEO of the luxury hotel Escacia Resort in Mexico.
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3:38Patricia MaryNARRATOR
When working with Wendell in his home in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, Valley painted its library peacock blue to compliment artwork by Nathalie Du Peyer and Landon Mertz that would hang in the room.
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3:54Patricia MaryNARRATOR
At first, Wendell thought the blue might be too dramatic, but Valley convinced him otherwise.
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2:58Patricia MaryNARRATOR
Jane says, "Everything else is this dark color, which at certain times of the day just recedes." Complementing the room's walls and furniture is a purple and cream tiled fireplace decorated with blue and green patterned plates.
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3:18Patricia MaryNARRATOR
Their residential client, clients include the creative artist agency co-chairman and managing director, Byron Lord, the Hard Rock Cafe co-founder, Peter Morton, and Kevin Wendel, the CEO of the luxury hotel, Esquesa Resort in Mexico.
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3:38Patricia MaryNARRATOR
When working with Wendel in his home in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, Valli painted its library peacock blue to complement artwork by Nathalie du Périer and Landon Merz that would hang in the room.
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3:54Patricia MaryNARRATOR
At first, Wendel thought the blue might be too dramatic, but Valli convinced him otherwise.