Villa 6 was missing something vital for a while there. But now it feels complete. As you enter the villa into the central corridor you are struck by the sense of space and light, largely due to the 7 metre skylight running the length of the heart of the villa.
There has been a lot of [...]

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Villa 5 was finished, so it was time to dress it up and fire the imagination a little. It can be difficult to envisage an empty house with the benefit of warmth and furnishings. We wanted to capture some images that would nudge that imagination into working and bring the villa alive.
In order to achieve [...]

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We recently dressed up the completed Villa 5 in allsorts of local finery. The local businesses of Marrakech were incredibly kind and helped bring the first L’Amandier villa to life (more on that in a separate post). We were all pretty impressed with how elegant the villa looked and Nick, our architect, even came over [...]

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Deadlines are definitely a moving target in Morocco. If you can run fast enough to catch hold of its tail to rein it in, you are doing well. When I asked a tradesman this week, ‘which day will you be finished?’, his helpful answer was that, ‘in Morocco, one, two, or four days late is [...]

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The application of the tadelakt to the walls of the L’Amandier villas is secretly what I have been looking forward to most. To me, this signifies the transformation of the grey plastered shell into beautifully polished natural finished rooms. Not quite finished, but certainly almost there.
You may be wondering what on earth tadelakt is - [...]

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