Amazing French designs by Jacques Garcia
For hundreds of years, France has been known for its artistic savoir-faire. Whether you talk about food, wine or fashion, the country is famous for anything that has style in it. It is therefore safe to conclude that France also has the most influential and inspiring interior designers ever known. One of these French designers is Jacques Garcia.
For Jacques Garcia, designers who are inclined in luxury has all the knowledge in the world. He is one of the best choices of interior designer in the world due to his mastery in color and flamboyant materials including velvets and damasks. He is known for being part in renovating the art galleries at the Louvre and he rooms at the Palace of Versailles.
About Jacques Garcia
Jacques Garcia is a French architect interior designer and garden designer, born on September 25, 1947. He is best known for his contemporary designs of the interiors of Paris hotels and restaurants. Even at young age, he has shown great talent in drawing art objects. Eventually, he attended a school of interior design and completed his education in the applied arts. After which, he started working for a firm of contemporary architects and created the concepts of interiors of the Tour Montparnasse in Paris, le Meridien hotels, and the Royal Monceau a Paris. Jacques Garcia was also the interior architect of Hotel Costes and the Costes restaurants, the Hotel Majestic, and the restaurant Fouquet’s. Hotel Odeon Saint Germain in Paris was likewise redecorated in 2006. In addition to being an architect and interior designer, he was also a collector of furniture and royal art objects dispersed after the French Revolution.
The works of Jacques Garcia
Jacques Garcia is famous for incorporating elegance and refinement in his designs in order to create worlds that offer outstanding sensory experience. He mixes 17th and 18th century influences with contemporary style, thus creating timeless interpretation of French elegance.
His popularity started after rethinking Napoleon III opulent style in Hotel Costes in Paris and the 18th century tea house for Laduree on the Champs Elysees. Since then, he has been renovating private residences and public spaces around the globe, as well as designing furniture collections, art pieces for MCGuire Furniture and Interna Collection.
With these, Jacques Garcia was honored with French cultural distinctions, named commander of the Order of Arts and Letters and a Chevalier in the Order of the Legion d’honneur.
The designs he creates are referenced to the history providing them with elegance, strong use of color, and theatrical perspectives. Additionally, he uses precious tapestries and furnishings, sensuous fabrics, 19th century engravings, Viollet Le Duc chandeliers, mosaics, beautiful hand-painted doors, black granite for the floor.
His inspirations include Zen minimalism, neo-Gothic architecture, Egyptian revival architecture and Napoleon III extravagance.