The Daily Telegraph - Saturday - Travel

HAMIMI DESIGN

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Rebecca Wilford works with an entire village of women to produce her crocheted pendant lamps (which are ingeniousl­y flat-pack). Find them at the city’s first concept store, 33 Majorelle.

hamimidesi­gn.com

RIAD MENA

Riad Mena has beautiful classical proportion­s, which owner Philomena Schurer Merckoll has sensitivel­y respected. The 19th-century house was nipped and tucked to create an easy sense of flow from the fabulous garden courtyard to the intimate pool patio and up multiple zigzagging staircases to a romantic first-floor loggia and a jigsaw of terraces furnished with daybeds and yellow sun umbrellas. Everywhere, Schurer Merckoll’s impeccable taste prevails. A new gallery-boutique, The

Pink Door, has emerged from endless guestreque­sts for shopping and design advice.

Rooms from £209 per night; telegraph.co.uk/ tt-riadmena

DAR RBAA LAROUB

Jean Noel’s soulful riad was one of the earliest guesthouse­s to open in the Medina and remains first and foremost a home. The house wears the patina of more than 30 years warmly, and is filled with eclectic vintage furniture, books and music. In the time-weathered patio, a portico shelters an open-air salon, while a starkly simple art deco dining room feels like something straight out of an Agatha Christie novel. Each of the seven rooms have fireplaces, and capping it all is the most glorious roof garden, dotted with seating nooks and hidden behind great

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