Jacques Garcia

A Sicilian Dream: Villa Elena

Jacques Garcia
Jacques Garcia, Alain Stella, Bruno Ehrs
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Hardback
h350 x 265mm - 264pg
20 Oct 2022 FRA
International import eta 7-19 days
9782081513518
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Celebrated interior designer Jacques Garcia invites readers for the first time inside his private residence in Sicily. The former monastery, rebuilt in Noto' s characteristic golden limestone, boasts spectacular salons that have been restored with a profusion of noble materials and techniques: colored marbles, flamboyant stucco work, majolica tiles, damask silks, and velvets. Time stops in the elegant music room decorated with embroidered silks and rococo-style mirrors that reflect the decor to infinity; the gilded dining room is hung with silk damask wall coverings, an eighteenth-century Murano chandelier, and furnished with Chantilly porcelain and antique Italian rococo chairs. The grand marble salon features baroque paintings and a stunning collection of sculpture and Sicilian furniture. The exquisite villa--surrounded by shaded terraces planted with towering cacti, succulents, and colorful birds of paradise--attests to Garcia' s love of ancient civilizations, and his masterful blending of Arab, Norman, Renaissance, and Baroque influences that converge in Sicily' s colorful history. The domain, dotted with ancient sculptures and reflecting pools, is graced with splendid panoramic views revealing the sea near Syracuse, a distant folly, a restored villa nestled in an ancient olive grove, and the decaying grandeur of a classical temple reconstructed with ancient fragments.
Alain Stella has written many books including Jacques Garcia: Twenty Years of Passion, Chateau du Champ de Bataille, Historic Houses of Paris, French Wine Chateaux: Distinctive Vintages and Their Estates. Bruno Ehrs is an award-winning Swedish photographer whose work has been published in Chateau de Villette, Villa Balbiano, A Day at Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, and Chaumet: Parisian Jeweler since 1780.

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