The Residences

Four apartments, four narratives

Each residence bears the name of a place or a time.

The works, the objects, the materials and the furniture all carry that identity further.

Essaouira. Fès. Maroc Ancien. Vieille France.

Four apartments held within a single building, and four different ways of inhabiting memory.

The welcome tea — Moroccan salon, silver and brocade — Photography — Rachid Haloui

First floor · opens into Fès

Essaouira

The upper floor, the Atlantic light, and the name of the city where it all began.

Here the walls and the cabinets tell the city — its history, its magic and its identities: argan, thuya, the Gnaoua, the arts and the sea.

Connects with the Fès apartment: the two can be booked together for a family or a group.

Practical information

88 m², a large living room, a fully equipped open-plan kitchen with a worktop/dining counter, a balcony facing the sea, one bedroom with a king-size bed and bathroom, one bedroom with 3 single beds and bathroom (please note, one antique bed of small dimensions: 0.80 × 1.85 m).

The apartment is equipped with satellite television, 200 Mbps fibre wi-fi, air conditioning, heating, a safe, an electric hob, a fridge, a microwave, a washing machine and a hairdryer.

Provided on request: travel cot, pushchair, baby car seat, child booster seat, changing table, potty, iron, beach towels, prayer mats…

First floor · opens into Essaouira

Fès

Fès. Fès, imperial memory upstairs. The largest medina in the world, the largest pedestrian quarter in the world — authentic, unreal, magical, powerful… Fès is given here through the testimony of a few rare objects, photographs, documents, and furniture that reveals its precious character: the softness of old velvets, the scent of carved cedar and the shine of zellige — beige like its earthen ramparts, green like its glazed tiles and blue like its pottery.

Connects with the Essaouira apartment: the two can be booked together for a family or a group.

Practical information

93 m², a large living room, a fully equipped open-plan kitchen, a balcony facing the sea, one bedroom with a king-size bed and bathroom, one bedroom with 2 single beds and bathroom, separate WC.

The apartment is equipped with satellite television, 200 Mbps fibre wi-fi, air conditioning, heating, a safe, an electric hob, a fridge, a microwave, a washing machine and a hairdryer.

Provided on request: travel cot, pushchair, baby car seat, child booster seat, changing table, potty, iron, beach towels, prayer mats…

Ground floor · independent

Maroc Ancien

At ground level, the Morocco of materials and objects — the densest of the four. Morocco: manifold, complex, rich and varied. Its pottery, its carpets… paintings, photographs, postcards, documents, countless objects reveal the infinite richness of a country made of several countries: the Sahara, the Atlas, the Rif, the medinas, the oases, the sea…

Practical information

82 m², a large living room, a fully equipped open-plan kitchen, a terrace onto the garden, one bedroom with a king-size bed and bathroom, one bedroom with 2 single beds and bathroom, separate WC.

The apartment is equipped with satellite television, 200 Mbps fibre wi-fi, air conditioning, heating, a safe, an electric hob, a fridge, a microwave, a washing machine and a hairdryer.

Provided on request: travel cot, pushchair, baby car seat, child booster seat, changing table, potty, iron, beach towels, prayer mats…

Ground floor · independent

Vieille France

The name of a time the house keeps in the present. Independent, at ground level. France. A fused attachment. “I came into France through the door of culture,” said Rachid Haloui at the ceremony where he received his medal of Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres. That recognition he returns in full. A France of former days, teeming with hundreds of objects like so many Proustian madeleines: pens, inkwells, telephones, clocks, documents, a Prussian helmet, postcards, bakelite, lighters, schoolroom charts, portraits…

Practical information

68 m², a living room, a fully equipped open-plan kitchen, a terrace onto the garden, one bedroom with a king-size bed, one bedroom with 2 single beds and one bathroom.

The apartment is equipped with satellite television, 200 Mbps fibre wi-fi, air conditioning, heating, a safe, an electric hob, a fridge, a microwave, a washing machine and a hairdryer.

Provided on request: travel cot, pushchair, baby car seat, child booster seat, changing table, potty, iron, beach towels, prayer mats…

Final photographs of each apartment will be added once the photography is complete.