"Moderne" 2003 GARCIA, Jacques
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GARCIA, Jacques
Boldly signed GARCIA, Jacques on FFEP
[279] pp.
Editions Gallimard
2003
Text in French/ English
11" x 8 3/4"
Fine
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The decorator in charge of fashionable places – in Paris but also in Geneva, New York or Chicago – delivers without false modesty his ideas, his references, his tastes, his dislikes – and some of the secrets that make the success of his creations. Jacques Garcia himself leads the reader through twenty large modern decorations, from his imagination. He takes the opportunity to freely exhibit – photos and drawings in support – the conceptions that underlie his work. Garcia’s verbal inventions are the mark of a rebellious spirit. Often full of humour, they throw an unexpected day on this subtle art among all, which claims to play with the spirit of the place.
Jacques Garcia, (born 25 September 1947) is a French architect, interior designer and garden designer, best known for his contemporary interiors of Paris hotels and restaurants.
Biography
The Hôtel Odéon Saint Germain in Paris, decorated by Jacques Garcia (2006)
Born in 1947, Jacques Garcia showed a talent for drawing and objects of art at a young age. At the age of eight, he constructed and furnished his first structure at the home of grandparents. Thereafter he attended a school of interior design and completed his education in the applied arts.
When he finished his education, he began working for a firm of contemporary architects, and created the concepts for the interiors of the Tour Montparnasse in Paris, Le Méridien hotels, and the Royal Monceau à Paris. He was also the interior architect for the Hôtel Costes and Costes restaurants, the Hotel Majestic, and the restaurant Fouquet's. In 2006, he redecorated the Hôtel Odéon Saint Germain in Paris., He purchased and restored the Château du Champ-de-Bataille in Normandy and undertook to recreate and update the large French formal garden.
He also became an avid collector of furniture and royal art objects dispersed after the French Revolution.
For his achievements, he was named commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, and a Chevalier in the order of the Légion d'honneur.