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 [...]
Every summer we head to the pretty seaside town of Nerja, about 50kms East of Malaga. Its beaches have always been renowned, first among fishermen, then among the early tourists who started arriving in the 1960s. Although the city beaches now get packed in the summer, if you drive just [...]
While we were living it up on the beach this summer our trusty weavers’ creative juices were flowing. On our last supply run they presented us with several new samples including a genius range of linen throws. This fine linen comes from France, but like all Anajam Home accessories, they are hand woven here in [...]
Café Mor is not, as you might suspect a café at all. It’s a food truck on the edge of one of the most rugged and wild beaches in Pembrokeshire: Freshwater West where the dunes seem to scurry down to a wide, gold sand beach book-ended by craggy cliffs and, happily for the kids, abundant [...]
In honour of last weeks brilliant Trade + Impact show in Ifrane we're delighted to share our kefta recipe from the Courtyard Kitchen at our show home in the Fez medina. In Morocco traditional recipes are often infused with magic spells. This kefta recipe comes generously seasoned with love. Ras al Hanout is an aromatic [...]
There’s nothing more British than a garden fete and that’s exactly what you get at this delightful, summer family festival in Cornwall. Expect a postcard perfect setting of rolling green hills, silvery lakes and trees rustling in the breeze creating a Hardy-esque backdrop to the motherland’s answer to Woodstock. Folks amble about with feathers and flowers [...]
