Jacques Garcia decorates against restraint. Where other designers take things away, he adds: velvet, gilt, tooled leather, tasselled lamps, old paintings hung close together, rooms lit low enough to feel like evening at noon. The Hôtel Costes made his name with exactly that, at a time when Paris hotels were turning white and bare.
Most of his hotels here are in Paris, and several are small. Seen together, they show how one hand can make a house of twenty rooms feel like a private salon, and a mansion feel like somebody's flat.
Saint-Tropez & the Var
1 hotel
Where they are.
Every hotel in this collection, on one map of France.
