House of Yves Saint Laurent in Tangier becomes a hotel | Italy fashion

House of Yves Saint Laurent in Tangier overlooking the sea

Pierre Berger AND Yves Saint Laurent knew Morocco well, where they already owned Villa Oasi in Marrakesh, with the famous Majorelle Garden, when they bought a villa overlooking the sea in Tangier in 1990. Entrusting the furnishing project to an interior designer Jacques GrangeThen the couple wanted to “imagine the home of an eccentric 1950s Englishman who came to live in the city. Yves wanted each room to have its own chintz and color: a blue room, a yellow room, and so on,” Grange writes in the book. Les Paradis Secrets by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berger.

Villa Mabrouk in Tangier

Yves Saint Laurent’s home in Tangier, the Villa Mabrouk (“happy villa” in Arabic), an intimate home sheltered from prying eyes for decades, has been transformed into a hotel thanks to the acquisition and restyle by British designer Jasper Conran, its current owner.

House overlooking the sea, surrounded by a lush garden

Surrounded by bougainvilleas, palms, fruit trees, holly, roses, jasmine and orange blossoms that dot Tangier’s most beautiful garden (landscape designer Madison Cox, president of the Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation), hustle and bustle reigns a few steps away. The Kasbah and Medina of the famous white city, the building has twelve colorful rooms that the British designer wanted to revive without losing anything from the stylistic heritage of the creative couple and with the utmost respect for the original structure and features of the building. Moroccan architecture.

In addition to the large pool carved into the rock, Conran built another emerald pool, created three restaurants and reinvented all the furniture (with the exception of the Murano chandeliers) with the help of the best local craftsmen.