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2. Alberto Pinto (interior designer) - Wikipedia

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   Alberto Pinto was born in Casablanca to Moroccan Sephardic Jewish parents. He attended Ecole de Louvre in Paris and then moved to New York to start a photography agency. [2] His photography agency specialized in decoration and interior design. This focus on design led Pinto to take up interior design almost four decades ago.

3. Historic house architecture in Morocco - Wikipedia

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   As with other traditional Moroccan structures, the interior decoration includes carved stucco, sculpted and painted wood, and zellij tilework. [2] [1] The central patio/courtyard, the wast ad-dar, is thus the centerpiece of the house. The size and craftsmanship of this interior space was an indication of the status and wealth of its owners ...

4. Moroccan architecture - Wikipedia

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   Moroccan architecture reflects Morocco's diverse geography and long history, marked by successive waves of settlers through both migration and military conquest. This architectural heritage includes ancient Roman sites, historic Islamic architecture, local vernacular architecture, 20th-century French colonial architecture, and modern architecture.

5. Moorish architecture - Wikipedia

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   Interior of the El Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia Synagogues had a very different layout from mosques but in North Africa and Al-Andalus they often shared similar decorative trends as the traditional Islamic architecture around them, such as colourful tilework and carved stucco, [ 114 ] [ 115 ] though later synagogues in North Africa were ...

6. African design - Wikipedia

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   Design is a form of story-telling and it is a medium through which those stories are told. In 2009, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke on "The Danger of a Single Story" which has become one of the top ten most-viewed TED Talks of all time. For years African design has been stereotyped, represented by ethnic prints and earthy colors and textures.

7. Architecture of Casablanca - Wikipedia

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   In this context, "The iconographic power of emblematic images plays an underexplored role in the reproduction of foundational narratives about Casablanca's margins, shaping both popular and state discourses.", [18] which underscores the significance of visual representations in the ongoing dialogue between Casablanca's colonial past and its ...