'MARRAKESH DESIGN' POP UP BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, SUITE 212, January 11 - February 1, 2016

MARRAKESH DESIGN - SUITE 212 , POP UP SHOWROOM @ BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, January 11 - February 1, 2016

Boston Interior Designers: 

Come see our new pop up showroom, Marrakesh Design. Drop off your business card for a chance to win a sparkling Moroccan wedding blanket! It might be your lucky day....

 ‘Marrakesh Design’ is a new pop-up showroom inspired by Yves Saint Laurent’s Villa Majorelle. A mix of home décor that spans the globe, including Christopher Spitzmiller lamps, exotic antiques from William Hodgins, and a new collection of rare Beni M’Guild and Beni Ourain tribal carpets on exhibit now in the Boston Design Center. 

Spring ahead and place your custom orders for Zillij Tile tables & Moroccan pool lanterns for the summer season.‘Marrakesh Design’ pop-up is showcasing Imports from Marrakesh’s Zillij Tile collection. This unique design resource is available for the first time for designers  in the New England region. Custom mosaic tile  is hand-made by master zillij artisans. Imports from Marrakesh produces custom mosaic ceramic tables, fireplaces, walls and floors for interior designers and architects. 

Imports from Marrakesh news: 

MARRAKESH TILE SALE

inventory clearance sale. 

all in -stock tiles are now 40% off
January 14 - February 14, 2016

look for Marrakesh Tile by Imports from Marrakesh in the special USA edition of House & Garden, winter issue 2016 #tilewithstyle

MOROCCAN CARPET SALE

January 11-31, 2016 

30% up to 50% off antique & modern Berber carpets
New York, Boston & online 
grand clearance sale!

CROSS POLLINATIONS @bostondesigncenter = importsfrommarrakesh + farrow&ball
 Imports from Marrakesh tea-tables painted in Babouche by Farrow & Ball . Stay tuned for our collaboration with Farrow & Ball’s new spring colors at the Boston Design Center. 

EXOTIC PAIRS: FARROW & BALL + IMPORTS FROM MARRAKESH

A perfect match - why don’t you order a custom pair of Moroccan occasional tables {perfect for cocktails or bedside} and paint them in high gloss Farrow & Ball paint. 

photos:

1. Moroccan wedding blanket /pinterest via 
2. Tablescape & photo by Stephanie Rudloe
3. Moroccan Zillij Tile Fireplace / Vanity Fair France
4. Custom Zillij Tile table on loading dock @ the Chelsea Market, photo by Stephanie Rudloe
5. Custom order Lantern, design inspiration provided by a client.
6. Marrakesh Tile in House & Garden, photo by Stephanie Rudloe
7. Beni Ourain carpet + tall Moroccan occasional tables in Farrow & Ball's Babouche, photo by Stephanie Rudloe

Back to the Souk: BENI OURAIN CARPET SALE - 20% OFF!

Now is the time to get that authentic Beni Ourain carpet you've always wanted for your   home or office....we are having a Special Sale on our Beni Ourain Carpets. All of the Beni Ourain Carpets posted on our new online SHOP are 20% off the listed price.  We are celebrating our new collection of contemporary Beni Ourain rug  hand-woven by our own collective of Berber women weavers in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco! 

The old Berber women who weave our Beni Ourain carpets have tattoos on their foreheads, henna on their fingertips, and they learned how to warp a loom from their great grandmothers. They have spend their entire lives in a remote village in the Middle Atlas Mountains sipping mint tea and spinning wool. Each weaver signs her carpet with a hand-knotted symbol that matches her tattoo. Magical markings on the body are an ancient Berber beauty ritual. The same symbols adorn Berber carpets and have long captivated the design world with their bold simplicity. 

It took Mohamed, founder of Imports from Marrakesh, many trips to the Atlas Mountains, to find this group of  master weavers who now create traditional Beni Ourain carpets for Imports from Marrakesh.  He now produces carpets directly with these experienced weavers, whose crooked genius cannot be copied. The weavers of the Atlas Mountains are the mind behind the unique talisman of a true Beni Ourain rug. You won’t find that at West Elm. 

Though chain stores may sell knock-offs, the sensual shaggy pile and authentic presence of a Beni Ourain carpet is impossible to replicate by a machine. Even in the souks of Marrakesh it’s ever harder to find that shimmering patina stained with henna and tea and magical spirit. Which is why we decided to start producing our own affordable Beni Ourain carpets direct from this remote village in the Middle Atlas in conventional sizes for our souk in the Chelsea Market. 

 You can shop the collection online or if you are in NYC , visit  our souk in the Chelsea Market to make your selection.

Exciting news! Imports from Marrakesh's new website is live

Our new website and e-commerce shop is live!

Shop the souks of Marrakesh from your sofa:

www.importsmarrakesh.com

Moroccan Carpet Sale: July 19 through August 24

MOROCCAN CARPET SALE

July 19 through August 24, 2014 

30% Off 

our entire collection

 of Moroccan Berber tribal carpets & textiles

BENI OURAIN CARPETS * AZILAL CARPETS * BOUCHERITE RAG RUGS * ZEMMOUR CAPRETS * TAZNACHT RUGS * MOROCCAN WEDDING BLANKETS

+ 

a very special online Summer SOUK Sale @

www.importsfrommarrakeshshop.com

enter SOUKSALE at checkout

in order to receive a discount of 30% on everything!

Imports from Marrakesh

In the Chelsea Market

88 Tenth Avenue {between 15th & 16th Street, NYC} 

inspiration board | fez tableware

Fez Plates hung om the dining room wall at YSL's Villa Dar es Saada, Morocco
{ceramic plates as wall decoration originates in the Italian Renaissance}
Photography by Jacques Dirand,

A collection of antique Fez ceramic urns in assorted styles  decorate the mantle of the zillij tile fireplace
designed by Bill Willis. Photography by Jacques Dirand

Blue & white Fez plates hung on the wall. 
Interior design by Mary McDonald. Photograph by Miguel Flores-Vianna.

Imports from Marrakesh's Fez tableware collection
as seen in Architectural Digest, November , 2013 

Imports from Marrakesh Zillij Tile Design

an insolent mix: Yves Saint Laurent's Marrakesh

You don’t have to live in a ryad like Yves Saint Laurent to have a little bit of Marrakesh your life. Like a serpent, the inspirations of Marrakesh, may slip into your life in unexpected ways. For YSL Marrakesh was his retreat from Paris, the special place he went three months out of every year to work on his fashion collections and to immerse himself in an exotic world of Moroccan fantasy. 

He and Pierre Berge created a home in Marrakesh that was a brilliant mix of traditional Moroccan decorative art and European antiques and paintings. The zillij fireplace in the living room of Villa Oasis was an intricate mosiac design made from turquoise, light blue and celadon green ceramic tile: a perfect stage for orange flames.  Their legendary interior decorator, Bill Willis,  re-invented Moroccan plaster-work into the form of half dome lighting fixtures that suspended delicately above the room.  Inexpensive hand-painted Moroccan octagonal tea-tables served as useful occasional tables throughout the house. Blue and white Fez ceramic bowls were used as simple decorative receptacles- perhaps for ashes or olive pits. Resting in the center of large Moroccan tea tray table, was an antique Berber green glaze vase often filled with multi-color roses from their garden. 

{inspiration for an Imports from Marrakesh  custom order project.....}

'Saint Laurent himself described in 1983 how he embraced the inspiration of the light and colors of Marrakech, its "insolent mixes" and "ardent inventions." "But I wasn't content with importing this culture," he said. "I annexed, transformed and adapted it."  via New York Times

In this  iconic photograph by Horst,  YSL is  reclining in a private garden in 1986 surrounded by an stunning collection of red and orange Zemmour tribe carpets. These carpets are a fine flat weave with bold horizontal stripes that are adorned with tiny geometric patterns. They are durable strong  carpets, that roll up easily and perfectly suited to a lifestyle that embraces nomadic luxury. The fuchsia bougainvillea flowers and vivid reds and oranges in berber carpets are colors of Morocco that may have influenced YSL designs.

Photos 

1. Yves Saint Laurent original drawing 1stdibs
2. Framed by a magnificent Moroccan plaster arch, Yves Saint Laurent works on his fashion sketches  photo via.
3. Living room of Villa Oasis, interior design by Bill Willis, photo via
4. Imports from Marrakesh detail scan of plaster lighting design from same photo...
5. Moroccan rose festival 
6. 1983-84 - YSL Show 
7. Yves Saint Laurent in a Moroccan garden, photograph by Horst
8.  Original sketch: Evening Ensemble, Spring–Summer 1989. 
 Foundation Pierre Bergé –Yves Saint Laurent via
9. Photo from a Paris show... via vogue.it
10. YSL in Marrakesh photo via.
11. YSL fashion sketches with swatches 
12. Model in YSL lying in a on Moroccan carpet from Brazilian Magazine:Claudia,March 1969.
13. Original drawing by YSL via pinterest
14. YSL couture ~  an adaptation of the Fez....pinterest

black & white inspiration board