Puces Lover: Jacques Garcia

How the Paris Flea Market inspires those who love it

Jacques Garcia photographed by Toby Glanville in his office in Paris, with his beloved whippet, Livia.

Jacques Garcia is one of France’s most celebrated interior designers, known for his opulent, historically layered style and for shaping some of the world’s most lavish hotels, restaurants and private residences. From the game-changing Hôtel Costes in Paris to landmark projects in New York, Marrakech and beyond, he has built a global reputation for theatrical, deeply referential interiors where comfort, drama and historical imagination collide. That same sensibility extends to Château du Champ de Bataille in Normandy, the vast Baroque estate he restored and continues to inhabit as a kind of living laboratory of decorative history – a private world where centuries of style are not preserved but actively re-staged. He is also working on the revival of Le Palace, the legendary nightclub that defined late-1970s and early-1980s Paris as its answer to Studio 54, where nightlife became performance art, inaugurated by Grace Jones’s iconic rendition of La Vie en Rose. Across these different worlds runs a single constant: a way of reading culture through accumulation, atmosphere and fragments. It is this same instinct that finds its most natural expression at the Puces de Saint-Ouen, a place Garcia returns to not as a nostalgic refuge, but as a living archive of forms, where eras overlap freely and where his own visual language feels most at home.