Dar 91 Essaouira Blog - Luxury guest house holiday accommodation for rent Essaouira » design http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:00:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Introducing Next Door@Dar 91 http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog/2010/10/08/introducing-next-doordar-91/ http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog/2010/10/08/introducing-next-doordar-91/#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:38:00 +0000 admin http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog/2010/10/08/introducing-next-doordar-91/ Welcome to our labour of love! We wanted to create a romantic place full of quirky details, a comfortable place where people can come and explore the magical city of Essaouira – a town that is firmly in our hearts. During the renovation we had fun, stress, a lot of arguments, sleepless nights, and meetings with bank managers. We’ll be updating the website soon with more details about the place, but for now do please email us for all the info… ]]> http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog/2010/10/08/introducing-next-doordar-91/feed/ 0 Class glass http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog/2010/08/11/class-glass/ http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog/2010/08/11/class-glass/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:02:05 +0000 admin http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog/?p=446 One of the joys of renovating in Morocco is the abundance of coloured glass. We are particularly loving the deep green and rich yellow of these windows, which we found at the junk market and have brought back to life…

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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

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