Blue is the most popular colour of all times. In art history blue is the colour of Mary. In 1919 even before Yves Klein could die of the poisonous fumes of his monochrome blue Jacques Majorelle painted his art deco villa and its garden in Marrakech in a bright blue which makes sky meet earth in the middle of the desert. He had noticed the colour in Moroccan tiles, in Berber burnouses, and around the windows of buildings such as kasbahs and native adobe homes.
The greens of the botanic garden with its over 300 species from all over the world make an oddly beautiful contrast to the so-called Majorelle Blue. This environment was the inspiration for the culture merging designs of Yves Saint Laurent who bought the house as a ruin in 1980 and replanted the garden together with his boyfriend Pierre Bergé. Nevertheless because of his famous father, the art noveau designer Louis Majorelle, Jacques Majorelle stayed very unknown.
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La Guedra (1957)
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