Living in Morocco (Bibliotheca Universalis) --multilingual

by Barbara Stoeltie, René Stoeltie, Angelika Taschen (Editor)

Though it lies just across the Mediterranean from Europe, barely a stone’s throw from Spain’s southernmost tip, Morocco couldn’t possibly be farther away. With its mountainous and desert landscapes, labyrinthine souks, delectable cuisine, exquisite rugs and textiles, vibrant mosaics, fragrant odors, mesmerizing music, and welcoming people, Morocco is a most alluring and tantalizingly exotic destination. Digging a little deeper into the myth of Morocco, Barbara and René Stoeltie bring us this eclectic selection of homes to demonstrate all that is most wonderful about the Moroccan from tiled, turquoise swimming pools and lavish gardens to carved wooden furniture and jade-colored marble fountains. With more than 500 pages featuring brand new, unpublished photographs, flipping through these fairy tale–like visions of exotic havens (ideally while sipping a steaming cup of sweet, fragrant mint tea) will instantly whisk you away.

Genres: Design, Nonfiction, Morocco, Art, Art Design, Travel

507 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2002

Reviews

[Manik Sukoco · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is certainly what I did when I purchased this book. I expected a volume full of palaces, mosques, markets and average folk's homes (or at least native Moroccans). What I found was a book of lavish hotels and rich foreigners' mansions. They are by and large interesting rich foreigners, but I was still disappointed in that what is portrayed in this book is not "living" in Morocco. It's "being wealthy" in Morocco. There is nothing penetrating about this book, but it is nice eye-candy.

[Audioiter · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought this book for pure pleasure of color contemplating. Beautiful colors and textures nicely composed. Just visual pleasure.

[Salwa Al-Qasmi · Rating 5 out of 5]

كتاب مصور رااائع عن الحضارة العمارنية والديكور المغربي..
اكتشفت من خلاله لماذا ينبهر الغرب بالحضارة الشرقية ويأتون باستمرار لشمال أفريقيا..

اظن اني سأدمن على سلسسلة
living in.. :D

[Linnea · Rating 5 out of 5]

There’s no place on earth like Morocco.

[Lara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honestly not what I was expecting at all, the cover looks absolutely beautiful but the pictures in it are only about houses bought by probably foreign people (which I kinda should've expected from the title) and have a decoration with some sort of link to Morocco but nothing like the real houses of Moroccan people.

[Jaimesummer Sammons · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dreamy-perfect for day(and night)dreaming, again text is ok, the photos are amazing!