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An exotic feel in Marrakech - entering the colourful world of the 'Jardin Majorelle'
The Majorelle Garden is a botanical garden designed by the expatriate French artist Jacques Majorelle in 1924 (during the colonial period when Morocco was a protectorate of France)
Though Majorelle's gentlemanly orientalist watercolours are largely forgotten today, the garden is his creative masterpiece. The special shade of bold cobalt blue which he uses extensively in the garden and its buildings is named after him, 'bleue majorelle'.
The garden has been open to the public sinced 1947. Since 1980 the garden has been owned by Yves Saint Laurent -one of the greatest haute couture designers- and his lifetime friend Pierre Bergé. After Yves Saint Laurent died in 2008, his ashes were scattered in the Majorelle Garden
From Wikipedia:
The Majorelle Garden (Arabic: حديقة ماجوريل) is a botanical garden in Marrakech, Morocco. It was designed by the expatriate French artist Jacques Majorelle in 1924, during the colonial period when Morocco was occupied by France. Though Majorelle's art is largely forgotten today -- his oeuvre was made up of gentlemanly orientalist watercolors -- the garden he created is his creative masterpiece. A special shade of bold cobalt blue which he used extensively in the garden and its buildings is named after him, Majorelle bleu.
The garden has been open to the public since 1947. Since 1980 the garden has been owned by Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé.
2005 silk dress by Stefano Pilati for Yves Saint-Laurent, inspired by dress of 17th-century Jansenist priests and nuns. From the Earthly Hierarchy section of the show in the Medieval Sculpture Gallery.
Installation views of “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Fifth Avenue)
New York, New York
May 10 – October 8, 2018
November - December 2014.
Holiday in Morocco.
French painter Jacques Majorelle spent 40 years creating the landscaped garden in Marrakech. The garden has been owned by Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé since 1980. Saint Laurent's ashes were scattered in the garden.
Suit power – Yves Saint Laurent’s iconic 1979 “le smoking” women’s pantsuit, here Lauren Bacall’s pinstriped version, and a 1914-1916 cotton suffragette suit, evoking power and purity
Installation view “Power Mode: The Force of Fashion”
The Museum at FIT
New York, New York
December 10, 2019 – May 9, 2020