High Life

16 品 From the editor Space for romance A bout 15 years ago I lived not far from the Hôtel Costes on Rue Saint-Honoré in Paris. Though I had my own apartment and did not stay in the hotel, I went there often to buy their signature scented candles to bring home. The scent was not only heavenly, it also reminded me of the sexy atmosphere of the hotel, where I had some of the most memorable evenings of my life. A little more than a decade ago, it was an establishment known to have the best DJ in town: Stéphane Pompougnac. At night, it was very easy to run into supermodels and movie stars inside the bar, which had a certain vibe that kept people bubbly into the wee hours of the morning. Fast forward to 2018, and only recently was I finally granted an interview – through Parisian antique house Kraemer Gallery – with the Hôtel Costes’s famed interior design genius, Jacques Garcia. A true gentleman in every sense of the word, he is extremely knowledgeable in the French decorative arts of the 17th and 18th centuries but also generous, sharing some of his design insights and thoughts on modernity and tradition. While in Paris, I stayed at another of Garcia’s creations, the Hôtel Bourg Tibourg, which had tiny rooms that could only fit one single bed inside and nothing more. Despite the size, the space is dark, whimsical and mesmerizing. Though I stayed there on my own, the atmosphere was fit for all kinds of imagination, and that was precisely what Garcia wanted the guests there to be doing: having colorful dreams about life. Irene Sam Editor-in-Chief 浪漫空间 笔 者于大约十五年前旅居巴黎时，寒舍就位于圣奥诺 雷路上距离 Costes 酒店不远处。虽然不是那里的 住客，我却不时到访酒店并购买其特色香味蜡烛。那只应 天上有的香气，让笔者回想起酒店的感性氛围，以及在那 里渡过一个又一个毕生难忘的夜晚。 大概十年前，Costes 酒店迎来了全巴黎最火热的唱片 骑师 Stéphane Pompougnac 驻场，因而名声大噪。夜 幕低垂之际，客人往往会在酒廊里碰见超级名模或影视巨 星，星味十足之余亦让人们流连忘返。 时至2018年，笔者有赖巴黎卡迈尔古董行引荐，得以 与该酒店的室内设计鬼才雅克·加西亚进行访谈。这位风 度翩翩的绅士乃法国十七至十八世纪装饰艺术的专家，慷 慨地与笔者分享其对于设计、现代及传统等议题的精辟见 解。 身处巴黎之际，笔者亦曾入住出自雅克·加西亚手臂 之又一杰作——蒂尔堡镇酒店。这家酒店的客房面积出奇 地小，往往只能容纳一张单人床。空间虽小，幽暗的内部 设计却引人遐想。独处客房时，笔者的意识流犹如天马行 空。雅克·加西亚的原意，正是要让客人在梦幻的空间内， 对生活产生五彩缤纷的念头。 沈爱莲 主编 编者寄语