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Since 2010, the property has been owned by the Foundation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent, a French not-for-profit organisation and since 2011 has been managed by the Foundation Jardin Majorelle, a recognized non-profit organization in Marrakech. [8] Pierre Bergé was the director of the Garden's Foundation until his death in September ...
The tradition of creating gardens on the outskirts of the city began early with the Almoravids who founded Marrakesh in 1070. Multiple gardens, estates, and artificial lakes were established in multiple sites outside the city walls, often referred to as buḥā'ir – singular Buḥayra – an Arabic word meaning "little sea", presumably in reference to the artificial lakes and large water basins.
Jacques Majorelle (7 March 1886 – 14 October 1962), son of the celebrated Art Nouveau furniture designer Louis Majorelle, was a French painter.He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy in 1901 and later at the Académie Julian in Paris with Schommer and Royer.
The name Agdal is a polysemic term derived from Tamazight (Berber) meaning a "walled meadow" or a summer pasture for transhumance. [2] [3]: 282 The same name is also used for similar walled parks and gardens in other historic Moroccan cities such as Fez, Meknes, and Rabat.
The museum covers an area of 4,000 m2. It was designed by Studio KO and built by the Moroccan subsidiary of Bouygues. [2] [8]It includes an exhibition hall featuring the work of Yves Saint Laurent, in which there are photos, videos, sketches, 30,000 accessories, and over 7,000 garments from Saint Laurent's personal collections. [9]
The common English spelling is "Marrakesh", [8] [9] although "Marrakech" (the French spelling) is also widely used. [5] The name is spelled Mṛṛakc in the Berber Latin alphabet, Marraquexe in Portuguese, Marrakech in Spanish. [10] A typical pronunciation in Moroccan Arabic is merrākesh (/mərra:kəʃ/) with stress on the second syllable. [11]
A riad garden in the Bahia Palace of Marrakesh, built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A riad or riyad (Arabic: رياض, romanized: riyāḍ) is a type of garden courtyard historically associated with house and palace architecture in the Maghreb and al-Andalus.
Rick's Café Casablanca is a restaurant, bar and café located in the city of Casablanca, Morocco.Opened March 1, 2004, [1] the place was designed to recreate in reality the set of the bar made famous by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in the movie classic Casablanca.