This set of doors, a beautiful example of Berber design, was found in the hills outside Taroudant in the south of Morocco.
The Berbers’ design vocabulary includes magic numbers, magic squares, verses from the Koran, Arabic script, geometric shapes (triangles, squares, crosses, eight-pointed stars, six-pointed stars, spirals, circles and diamonds), as well as motifs representing plants, flowers, humans, eyes and hands. Berber designs are often valued for the ‘baraka’ (spiritual power) they contain…and we reckon these have bucketloads of the stuff