For all it has in medieval medina magic, Fès is desperately lacking in cool, green, watery spaces that you can actually jump into. Marrakech it is not. Which is why every summer we make it our mission to uncover the best pool-day passes in the city. This year, the unofficial AJ accolade goes to [...]
Like most women we've spent half our lives in search of the perfect bag. Finally that search has ended right here in Morocco thanks to two designers, both, perhaps unsurprisingly, women too, who understand what we really want and need. The first is Lalla in Marrakech (http://lalla.fr) who makes a huge variety of must-haves [...]
This is Mohammed. He's the fourth generation of a family of copper beaters in the Fez medina and oversees our production on hand-beaten, tin-lined copper cookware and planters. This tree behind him was planted by his great grandfather, along with two others on the Place Seffarine. 'It really was like being in the middle [...]
On an inspirational trip around the north of Morocco last summer we feel madly in love with these eye-catching, cotton pompom bedspreads. Using traditional looms and hand-spun yarns as well as a liberal sprinkling of that trademark Moroccan creativity, our weavers came up with this contemporary statement piece that adds texture to a room without [...]
We love nothing more than a lavish table setting, using it as a chance to wow guests the second they sit down. So it was over the Christmas and New Years holidays when we used our Caidal Collection by Moroccan designer Hnia Bencheikh whose striking, black and white range, were inspired by the motifs used [...]
