Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Top 10 Milestones in
Modern Moroccan
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Jnane Tamsna
An elegant Palmeraie villa
which is a regular venue for
fashion shoots
(see p117)
.
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Tichka Salam Hotel
Look out for Bill Willis'
palm tree columns in the
restaurant
(see p111)
.
Mud-hut chic at Hotel Caravanserai
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Les Deux Tours
and reinterpret them to suit the
modern age. He has often been
credited with repopularising
tadelakt
and domes.
&
Beaten copper
A landmark design by
Charles Boccara with plenty
of
tadelakt
and mud-brick
domes
(see p117)
.
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Riad Enija
A conversion of old
townhouses updated and
filled with fabulous custom-
made furniture
(see p116)
.
Wafer-thin coverings of
beaten metal, earlier adorning
grand wooden doors, are now
used to fashion sheets of copper
into hand basins.
*
Stucco madness
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Théâtre Royal
A spectacular Boccara
building on a monumental
scale
(see p76)
.
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Dar Yacout
With updated traditional
techniques, the interiors have
made creative use of carved
plaster, like the floor-to-ceiling
stucco of the dining room at Riad
Farnatchi
(see left & p116)
, which
resembles flock wallpaper.
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Fretwork
More Willis magic at work,
including magnificent candy-
striped fireplaces
(see p71)
.
&
Riad Kaiss
A modest riad with
contemporary Moroccan
design by French architect
Christian Ferré
(see p114)
.
Moroccan craftsmen are
adept at transforming ordinary
sheets into geometric-patterned
screens and furniture panels,
which are sometimes backlit to
stunning effect. Although not
indigenous to the country, they
also assemble small, lathe-turned
pieces of wood to form the
screens known as
mashrabiya
.
)
Colour
*
Amanjena
This vast luxury hotel is
modern Moroccan as an
operatic set piece, complete
with reservoirs and green tile-
roofed pavilions
(see p116).
(
Dar Les Cigognes
A Charles Boccara, it
typically features gorgeous
tadelakt
, plus beautiful wood
and plaster carving
(see p114).
)
Le Foundouk
While Marrakech is a
uniform dusky pink, her interiors
are painted in bold colours.
Favourites are fruity orange, rose
pink, lemon yellow, mustard and
cobalt sky blue.
A restaurant that comb-
ines the traditional (an old
courtyard building) with the
modern - backlit water feat-
ures, leather armchairs, a bar
- to sublime effect
(see p71).
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To buy your own piece of Marrakech style,
see pp16-17
.
