Jacques Grange
Born1944 (age 79–80)
NationalityFrench
OccupationInterior designer

Jacques Grange, born in 1944, is a French interior designer.

Biography

After completing his training at the École Boulle and the École Camondo, Grange made a career as a decorator in France and abroad from the 1970s. His main customers included Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, for whom he decorated the Château Gabriel, in Benerville-sur-Mer. The residence was previously owned by the publisher of Marcel Proust. As Saint Laurent was an admirer of Proust, Grange modelled the house around the themes of his great novel, In Search of Lost Time.[1]

His usual customers include Isabelle Adjani, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Alain Ducasse, François Pinault, Robert Agostinelli, Valentino and Karl Lagerfeld.[2][3] In New York City, he provided the decoration of jewelry shop of Paloma Picasso, of the Mark Hotel on Madison Avenue, and of the Barbizon Hotel.

His style is characterized by a harmony between traditional and contemporary tastes, with an assortment of styles that follows the line of Madeleine Castaing,[4] who taught him the art of decoration.[5]

In 1980, Grange acquired Colette's apartment, at the Palais-Royal in Paris. He rearranged it in order to make it his residence while respecting the spirit of the place.[6]

Bibliography

  • Pierre Passebon, Jacques Grange, Éditions du Regard, 2008

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Connaissance des Arts, February 2009 Archived 2009-04-14 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ "5 Star Hotels in NYC | the Mark Hotel – Jacques Grange | 5 Star Hotels in New York". Archived from the original on 2013-03-25. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
  3. ↑ http://www.hellocotton.com/to/51SE#http://habituallychic.blogspot.com/2011/03/pink-in-paris.html "Habitually Chic".
  4. ↑ Jacques Grange, preface to the Sotheby's catalog L'Univers de Madeleine Castaing, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, September–October 2004.
  5. ↑ Dossier sur Jacques Grange : five articles in The New York Times, 1988, 1997, 2004, 2007 and 2008.
  6. ↑ TV interview of Jacques Grange by Frédéric Mitterrand, Du côté de chez Fred, December 20, 1988, archives of the INA.
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