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Willowbrook Park
Irwin Weiner ASID - I'm here today to praise French designer Jacques Garcia. His hotel and restaurant interiors made him famous, notably the 10-year-old-yet-still-cutting-edge Hotel Costes in Paris (top photo); Parisians buzzed about the Garcia decor, which they felt was the most amazing injection of personality into a public space. And haven't I been using my Design2Share bully pulpit over the years to decry sterile "hotel style" for homes as being too devoid of personality? Mr. Garcia's spaces are major exceptions to that rule, and he has