Click on the Google Preview image above to read some pages of this book! Morocco is an exhilarating combination of vivid sensuality and intense spirituality, an intoxicating blend of cultures. Berber, Arab, French, English, and Spanish: the country's rich mixture of heritages is matched by its geography, which ranges from coast to mountain to desert.
This revised edition of Living in Morocco celebrates the indigenous arts of a country at the height of a cultural renaissance. Morocco is known for fine leather and for pottery that dates back a thousand years. Berber rugs are justly famous, and there is a thriving tradition of woodworking, especially in the native thuya wood.
Most extraordinary, though, is Morocco's decorative painting and tilework, where, forbidden by religion to depict human figures, craftsmen have developed a vocabulary of pattern and ornament. The book is filled with brightly colored ceilings, decorated courtyards and walls, plaster of Paris carved and painted in intricate geometrics, tiles so small that 150 could fit in a matchbox. Lavishly illustrated chapters on decorative and folk arts alternate with chapters on Moroccan life today.
We visit Chaouen in the Rif Mountains (a city only recently open to Westerners), where the town's undulating surfaces are painted a bone-chilling blue-tinted white. We peer into an abandoned kasbah in the Sahara, and absorb the sights, sounds, and smells of the frenzied souk. We take time out in the shady blue-and-pink environs of the Majorelle Gardens, laid out by French painter Jacques Majorelle, and explore the story behind La Mamounia, the famous hotel that has welcomed such guests as Winston Churchill.
Most important, we see Morocco's arts brought to life in its homes -- from former harems to traditional Hispano-Moorish houses.
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Introductionp. 19Three Habitatsp. 29York Castlep. 53Chaouenp. 61A Rif Mountain Retreatp. 69A Touch of Spainp. 77Folk Artsp. 85Casablanca Decop. 127Landmark Villap. 131A Moroccan Follyp. 139A Former Haremp. 147Tishka Hotelp. 157The Soukp. 161Decorative Artsp. 173A Contemporary Renovationp. 193A Bit of Old Englandp. 199Colorp. 205La Mamouniap. 215A Berber-Style Farmhousep. 221A North African Paradisep. 229Travel to Moroccop. 241Shoppers' Guidep. 242Glossaryp. 246Bibliographyp. 247Acknowledgmentsp. 248Indexp. 250Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved.
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