“This will be my last house. I am reaching the end of my life, and I will not go again. Jacques Garcia says. AD100 Hall of Famer Between the courtyard of the building and its garden, standing in its 17th century apartment. It is a home from a dream, located on the left bank of Paris. To understand all its subtle nuances, however, it is necessary to travel back on time and follow the path leading to Garcia.
After a career in five decades, French interior designer Jacks Garcia takes a look at five apartments where he lives. If these walls can talk, they can miss the development of their style and taste, although they all share some characteristics: they are all in Paris and they are all definitely French. Garcia has an extended waltz with the city, and this long relationship is often expressed through precious antiques. He says, “I always had a passion for him, and Cheteu Do Champ de Baytil (a 17th -century Chetu in Normandi that Garcia was bought in 1992) is the total reflection of that,” he says. Château is also a symbol of a generous approach that will portray a lot of Garcia as a decorator. His first apartment, in a hotel particle in Maris district, reflects his interpretation of the 1970s, but it is far from the bright interiors of that time. Garcia liked the walls with dark mirrors and preferred instead of creating a dialogue between pictures Yaves klein And Roy Lichtenstein“I was also thrilled with the work of Jean-Michel Frank, when no one knew who he was,” he is continuing, referring to his second apartment, which he fully equipped with a designer working by the designer.
The apartment was once of the Jules Hardoin-Monsart, the architect of Luis XIV, and the interiors of Garcia, a clever reflection on the relationship between Kings and their mistresses. “I have always made an attraction with big customers, and big customers are often women. The greatest was often the mistress of kings, ”he says with a smile. The result is a Louis XIV interior with extraordinary pancakes. Later, with its apartments in the Palace Royal, the change in the atmosphere was radical. There, Garcia created a futuristic apartment from the 2050s – as he says – with a roof painted in Klein Blue and like planets in the sky with lead fixtures. Garcia combined this individual solar system with silver wooden doors and walls with a bronze floor and a noticeable fetina.
“I was very connected to my fourth house, as it was designed by Neoclasical Architects Charles Persier and Pierre Fontane,” says Garcia. He explains that he prefers to mix empire-style items with more contemporary pieces. “I am called a backward looking person, but the truth is that I am indifferent to the future made from the past.” And what about his fifth and last house? Garcia has described it as distillation of the soul reflected in his previous houses. “It is all there. Miscellaneous effects, modern paintings, historical furniture, and a firm environment – this is my character. I like a comfortable home where it is easy to entertain. I like beautiful light houses. This is what I have kept everywhere in practice, whatever era or style, “he tells me that we climb a magnificent grand ladder that resembles the exactly found in our first home.
The apartment comes up with the splendor of a small palace in the heart of Paris. The first two rooms were stripped of their original decoration, Garcia re -strengthened them. “The idea behind the rooms is simple,” he continues because he first enters the room: “First, they are the mixture.” The 16th -century pieces sit next to more modern people of the 20th century: the three important functions of the 1920s and the 1940s with a spontaneous style. Continuing, in Petit Salon, Louis XV’s spirit and 18th -century furniture manufacturer Louis Delanois, whose customers included Madame Do Barry and King of Poland. As the Coco Channel said, “I cannot be the queen of fashion. Changes in fashion, style ends. “Garcia’s response to the idea is to adopt a certain attitude that leads to his timeless liberalism.
Liberalism, for Garcia, is a fundamental mode of expression which is rapidly rare these days. This apartment is the essence of that approach with openness to every style and beauty. “It contains a taste for both heavy and light, historical and minimal,” says Garcia, who is an undisputed master of jumping between different looks. “Let’s make some very personal that many people will not like, and then don’t worry about what they can think. Let us do something that suits us and we want to share with others, ”the interior designer who fearlessly combined different ages and trends. He then shares that he praises the decorator Henry Samuel, who is said to have died in his life about falling from a staplador late, while he was hanging the screen in the Rightsman Gallies New York City Met“Twenty years ago, I laughed about it, saying that I did not want to finish like Henry Samuel. Today, I tell myself that I can move forward in this way, ”ends Jacques Garcia with a smile.
This story was originally published Advertisement France. It was translated by John Newton.
