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When the pandemic ground the typical design-world social gatherings to a screeching halt, suddenly the industry’s primary avenue to unveil new launches disappeared. Wanting to showcase the work of his favorite makers during a period of uncertainty and creative lag, the interior designer Olivier Garcé decided to transform his West Village apartment into a makeshift collectible design gallery created specifically for the pandemic age. The setting is idyllic enough: a light-flooded one-bedroom apartment in a pre-war brownstone that Garcé shares with his partner, Clio Dimofski, both of whom were sent from Paris to establish the New York branch of Pierre Yovanovitch’s acclaimed design firm in 2019.