Inside Marrakesh: Enchanting Homes and Gardens

Description

Marrakesh - the epicentre of Moroccan interiors and garden design - has captivated generations of tastemakers, including Jasper Conran, Madison Cox, Bill Willis, Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Berge, and Caitlin and Samuel Dowe-Sandes. All have absorbed and transformed Marrakesh's exotic style into fresh expressions. From vibrant tiles to fabrics, Marrakesh design today is about a fascination with saturated colours, complex patterns, and romantic settings. It celebrates the handmade, the layered, and the bold. Beginning with Marrakesh as a unique cultural crossroad of architecture and design, renowned designer and luxury inn proprietor, Meryanne Loum-Martin provides us with entree into the private residences of celebrated international designers, tastemakers, artists, and socialites. This beautifully photographed book showcases the extraordinary homes and gardens of many design savvy residents, such as Jasper Conran and Vanessa Branson, highlighting their most distinctive and innovative qualities, including the occasional stylish table setting. Throughout, Marrakesh Fusion focuses on key elements of Moroccan design - tiles, rugs, pottery, screens, fountains, woodwork, metalwork, wall treatments, and furnishings. To demonstrate the powerful ramifications of today's Marrakesh style, Loum-Martin also discusses Marrakesh as a source of design inspiration for such leading interior designers as Madeline Weinrib and Charlotte Moss, showing their interior spaces that have been inspired by this city. This insider's look at some of the most exceptional houses and gardens in Marrakesh will conclude with a useful international source guide.

Leading interior designer Meryanne Loum-Martin, and proprietor of the award-winning Jnane Tamsna boutique inn on the outskirts of Marrakesh in the Palmeraie district, is a celebrated international tastemaker. She is noted for her timeless elegance, mixing a Moroccan exoticism with a European sensibility. Loum-Martin has been lauded by such publications as New York Times, Town & Country, Vogue, and Architectural Digest. She has designed porcelain dinnerware (Garden of Marrakesh) for Meissen, as well as an outdoor furniture collection that was published in Vogue. Raised in Paris, Loum-Martin has been a prominent resident of Marrakesh for over thirty years where she has designed private residences for The Four Seasons, among others.

"If you are craving travel-and who isn't-visit the exotic interiors, dramatic architecture and lush gardens photographed in this book. Author and proprietor of the award-winning Jnane Tamsna boutique hotel, Loum-Martin sums up the appeal of Marrakesh in three words: sensuousness, refinement and mystery." - COTTAGES & GARDENS