Jury-GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN / Published on January 14, 2021
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Jacques Boily
Senior Manager, Tenant Coordination—Retail
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Montréal, Québec, Canada
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE – PEOPLE OF DESIGN VERSION!
What prescient youthful memory relates to your present career?
JI count 4 events!
1 – My visit of Expo 67 in 1967… Fuller’s Biosphere, Habitat 67 by Moshe Safdie…
2 – My participation at Radio-Canada’s ‘Connection’ in 1974 to draw my dream school.
3 – My strolls in the Montreal underground in 1974… Place Bonaventure, Place Ville-Marie, Place du Canada.
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4 – My visit of the Olympic Stadium and Village in Montréal in 1976
 Crowds sit on hillside on north side of Olympic stadium July 17, 1976 in Montreal as they await the arrival of Olympic teams along roadway to left. PHOTO BY CHUCK STOODY /Canadian Press |
 The Montreal Olympic Stadium and the Olympic Velodrome in June 1976. PHOTO BY CANADIAN PRESS |
What are three basic rules you learned from your mentors?
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What project launched your career?
Place Montréal Trust at its Planet Hollywood in 1998.
Any music playing while you work?
No thank you!
Do you work in PJs or three-piece suits?
I opt for comfortable clothing.
What is your current design state of mind?
Simplicity…
What living designer/architect do you most admire?
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2006-2014) https://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/fr/fondation/le-batiment
What past designer/architect inspires you the most?
La Maison sur la cascade https://fallingwater.org/
American architect
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
What is your most marked design quality?
I am multitasker!
How would you like your designs to go down in history?
I do not foster that dream!
IVO Collection, Montréal, Canada, 1989.
Design and production by Jacques Boily. La Presse, August 9, 1990.
Design Journal No. 32, Dec. 1990, Korea. New York magazine, Dec. 1989, USA.
OVE Collection, Montréal, Canada, 1992.
Design by Jacques Boily, production by Mobiplan.
La Presse, January 23, 1992. Design Journal no.38, March 1992, Korea.
Vous Habitez Chez Vos Parents Collection, Montréal, Canada, 2004.
Design by Jacques Boily. Azure Magazine, January 2005.
Décoration Chez Soi, September 28, 2004.
What peer quality do you most value?
Their consideration of architectural details.
Which project is the epitome of your work?
It’s still to come!
How are your country of belonging’s values reflected in your work?
North American retail marketing concepts reflect in my work.
Promenades Gatineau Arrêt Gourmand, Gatineau, Canada, 2015.
Photo credit : Yves Lefebvre. Design by Pappas Design. INTÉRIEURS Magazine, Winter 2015.
Design coordination by Jacques Boily.
What always inspires you?
Travelling…
If a spell were to transform you into an object, by all means, what would you like to be, and why?
I’d be a tree…
What is your favorite place in the world?
Paris et New York, tied for favorites!.
What design or architecture project do you wish you would have thought of yourself?
New York’s Hudson Yards, an Oxford and Related project, that integrates The Shed, The Vessel, residential and office towers, The Shops at Hudson Yards, all connected by the High Line linear park.
Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
If you could host any three guests, past or alive, over for dinner, who would you choose and what would you dare serving?
I don’t enjoy cooking but I’d sure have a drink in a bar with OSCAR WILDE, MARCEL PROUST and PEGGY GUGGENHEIM.
 Napoleon Sarony, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons |
 Otto Wegener, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
 https://www.guggenheim.org/history/peggy-guggenheim |
Whats is your mantra?
Design brings an added value to all interiors…
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| Galeries Gourmandes – Galeries de la Capitale, Québec, Canada, 2019. Design by GPA and Lemay Michaud. Tenant design coordination by Jacques Boily. |
