In Los Angeles, the NoMad Hotel has 240 rooms, decorated by French decorator Jacques Garcia.

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The old bank, in which the hotel exists today, was opened in 1923. For a long time the building was not used and the Killefer Flammang Architects team had to completely reconstruct it for new needs. Elements of the past architecture are well preserved, including the caisson ceiling of rare beauty in the lobby.

Jacques Garcia - master of historical reminiscences and reconstructions of various styles. The expert of the XVIII century, the favorite author of the Sultan of Brunei, he recreated the era of Louis XIV in his own castle in Normandy, the empire style - in his apartment in Rivoli, the bellepoque - in Paris Hotel Costes, the Moorish style - in the Hotel La Mammounia in Marrakesh. His vision of luxury is always based on French antiques, expensive upholstery and materials.

The extensive lobby area at the NoMad Hotel was divided into several parts and bars. In the center is the restaurant and bar Giannini (named after the founder of the bank Amadeo Giannini), which is open all night.

Velvet is everywhere here - in grassy green curtains, blue upholstery in the “library”, red ones in the study of curiosities. In the rooms - tables made of mahogany, dark leather headboards, antique lamps. Similar techniques Jacques Garcia has already proposed in a previous project - the NoMad hotel (North of Madison Square Park) in Manhattan.

Unlike the New York hotel here in Los Angeles there are more fashionable elements: floral motifs or wicker chairs. On the walls are photographs of Vincent Mercier from the Portraits of Cities series, Tom Blatchford, Megan Makissak.