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9780500282649

Living in Morocco: Design from Casablanca to Marrakesh

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  • ISBN13:

    9780500282649

  • ISBN10:

    0500282641

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-05-17
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson
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Summary

Morocco is an exhilarating combination of vivid sensuality and intense spirituality, an intoxicating blend of cultures. Berber, Arab, French, English, and Spanish: the country's rich mixture of heritages is matched by its geography, which ranges from coast to mountain to desert. This revised edition of Living in Morocco celebrates the indigenous arts of a country at the height of a cultural renaissance. Morocco is known for fine leather and for pottery that dates back a thousand years. Berber rugs are justly famous, and there is a thriving tradition of woodworking, especially in the native thuya wood. Most extraordinary, though, is Morocco's decorative painting and tilework, where, forbidden by religion to depict human figures, craftsmen have developed a vocabulary of pattern and ornament. The book is filled with brightly colored ceilings, decorated courtyards and walls, plaster of Paris carved and painted in intricate geometrics, tiles so small that 150 could fit in a matchbox. Lavishly illustrated chapters on decorative and folk arts alternate with chapters on Moroccan life today. We visit Chaouen in the Rif Mountains (a city only recently open to Westerners), where the town's undulating surfaces are painted a bone-chilling blue-tinted white. We peer into an abandoned kasbah in the Sahara, and absorb the sights, sounds, and smells of the frenzied souk. We take time out in the shady blue-and-pink environs of the Majorelle Gardens, laid out by French painter Jacques Majorelle, and explore the story behind La Mamounia, the famous hotel that has welcomed such guests as Winston Churchill. Most important, we see Morocco's arts brought to life in its homesfrom former harems to traditional Hispano-Moorish houses. Glorious photographs make this a treasure for the armchair traveler, while the documentation of Morocco's houses, arts, and crafts make it an invaluable resource for decorators and designers. Published in hardcover under the title Morocco: Designs from Casablanca to Marrakesh. 346 color photographs.

Table of Contents

Introduction 19(10)
Three Habitats
29(24)
York Castle
53(8)
Chaouen
61(8)
A Rif Mountain Retreat
69(8)
A Touch of Spain
77(8)
Folk Arts
85(42)
Casablanca Deco
127(4)
Landmark Villa
131(8)
A Moroccan Folly
139(8)
A Former Harem
147(10)
Tishka Hotel
157(4)
The Souk
161(12)
Decorative Arts
173(20)
A Contemporary Renovation
193(6)
A Bit of Old England
199(6)
Color
205(10)
La Mamounia
215(6)
A Berber-Style Farmhouse
221(8)
A North African Paradise
229(12)
Travel to Morocco
241(1)
Shoppers' Guide
242(4)
Glossary 246(1)
Bibliography 247(1)
Acknowledgments 248(2)
Index 250

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