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imagine solutions to achieve aesthetically appealing fabrics with
invisible technical properties.
IS MORE ALWAYS MORE?

The correct balance can be scaled from minimum to maximum. A
painting in shades of white is not minimal. Does it convey misery?
Overloading does not create a sense of richness; it's ostentatious.
But if you use only the essentials, nothing is ostentatious. If you get
rid of essentials, you're left with nothing but misery.
GIVEN YOUR ENCYCLOPEDIC KNOWLEDGE OF ANTIQUES, WHERE
ARE SOME OF YOUR BEST PLACES TO SEARCH FOR TREASURES?

Today the art world is universal. We find and send things
everywhere. However, a couple favorite Parisian addresses are:
* Discovery of interior design gems
Le Carré Rive Gauche - For generations, art galleries and
antiques dealers have called these streets home. In 1977, they
joined forces as a creative association.
* Marché aux puces ( flea market)
Paul Bert Serpette at Saint-Ouen - With 350 dealers across
120,000 sq. ft., it's the world's largest antique market.

I've found many pieces at large fairs with my friends, art historians Olivier Trebosc and Alfred van Lelyveld, cofounders of
Trebosc + van Lelyveld, Paris, who specialize in 16th-19th century
sculptures. Each has an extraordinary eye and we speak the same
language. In Le Mans, they found a large, salvaged painted ceiling
by the 17th century artist Simon Vouet for me.

YOUR PROJECTS ARE OFTEN HISTORIC RESTORATIONS. HOW
DO YOU INVENT CONCEPTS FOR PLACES WHERE EVERYTHING IS
RELATIVELY NEW, SUCH AS THE NOMAD LAS VEGAS?

My interventions are often pure creations that start from scratch.
Overall, I am the one who reinvents the truth when I see that the
existing truth is damaging. In some Parisian palaces, for example,
everything remains intact but their souls have disappeared.
WHAT DO YOU READ, AND WHY?

The romanticism of George Sand, because in my heart I'm 10
years old.

JACQUES GARCIA
DÉCORATION
JACQUES GARCIA

FOLLOWING NOTRE-DAME'S DEVASTATING FIRE, SHOULD IT
BE REBUILT TO REPLICATE THE ORIGINAL?

I will draw a parallel with Versailles. When reviving its gardens, we
replaced existing lead pipes with much more powerful, yet hidden,
PVC ones. For the Hall of Mirrors, exceptional artisans sculpted resin
and gold-plated versions of damaged girandoles (small candlestick
chandeliers). I am for what is true and essential. For Notre-Dame, the
roof structure is inconsequential since, sadly, the timber no longer
exists. What matters is finding the soul of the Notre-Dame we knew,
perhaps with a new sculpture of the destroyed arrow of Viollet the
Duke, and an identical roof. As for the interior structure, I don't really
care if it's concrete, titanium or Kevlar. What matters is it performs
well and lasts another 100 years. £
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2 With a clever balance
between the Neoclassicism of the Bank of Italy's
former headquarters and
contemporary Californian
style, Garcia's design of the
NoMad Los Angeles won
the 2018 Gold Key Award for
Best Lobby Luxury.

3 L'Escape Hotel redefined
Seoul's hotel offer when if
opened at the end of 2018
with its dramatic 19thcentury inspired flourishes.

B E N O I T L I N E R O ( N O M A D L O S A N G E L E S ) ; C O U R T E S Y O F L' E S C A P E S E O U L ; C O U R T E S Y O F L' O S C A R H O T E L ( G A R C I A )

WHAT IS ONE OF THE QUIRKIEST "FINDS" YOU LOVE THE MOST?

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