Majorelle Garden
Art museum, garden in Marrakesh, Morocco / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Majorelle Garden (French: Jardin Majorelle, Arabic: حديقة ماجوريل, romanized: hadiqat mmajuril, Berber languages: ⵓⵔⵜⵉ ⵎⴰⵊⵓⵔⵉⵍ, romanized: urti majuril) is a one-hectare (two-acre) botanical garden and artist's landscape garden in Marrakesh, Morocco. It was created by the French Orientalist artist Jacques Majorelle over almost forty years, starting in 1923, and features a Cubist villa designed by French architect Paul Sinoir in the 1930s. The property was the residence of the artist and his wife from 1923 until their divorce in the 1950s.
Jardin Majorelle | |
Established | 1923 |
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Location | Rue Yves Saint Laurent, Gueliz, 40090 Marrakesh, Morocco |
Coordinates | 31°38′34″N 8°00′11″W |
Type | Art museum, garden |
Key holdings | Berber Museum, Musée Yves Saint Laurent |
Collections | Berber art, Islamic art, Haute couture |
Founder | Jacques Majorelle |
Website | www |
In the 1980s, the property was purchased by the fashion designers Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé who worked to restore it. Today, the garden and villa complex is open to the public. The villa houses the Berber Museum and in 2017 the Yves Saint Laurent Museum opened nearby.