A work made to be lived in
villa museum mogador is neither a museum turned into a residence, nor a residence decorated like a museum.
It was conceived from the outset as a place where architecture, collections and the art of living would be one and the same.
A veritable question mark, the architecture of this villa gives it a startling identity: a leaning yet minimal volume, a bold architectural envelope that announces an original concept with an unexpected content.
Behind the contemporary rigour of its white volumes, another world unfolds: one of materials, of handed-down objects, of photographs, of architectural fragments, and of the gestures and knowledge of craft.
A contemporary house built to hold memory without ever pinning it down.
The house, level by level
The Villa reveals itself gradually.
On the ground floor, two independent apartments each offer a world of their own.
Upstairs, two further residences can open into one another and form a single, larger whole.
Lower down, the mood becomes intimate: a beldi hammam and treatment rooms carry the experience further.
Then comes the rooftop, open to Essaouira, its sky, its light and the Atlantic.
The collections, for their part, know no boundaries.
They inhabit the whole house.
A cultural immersion in a refined setting
Inside, the spaces are generous and filled with light, laid out so that their practicality makes for complete comfort.
The collections are shown under four themes: Maroc Ancien, Essaouira, Fès and Vieille France.
No fashion here, no decoration, but a museum-minded and convivial approach that brings wellbeing and culture together.
