Today, I come with a finding which I have been wanting to share with you for so long, actually about two years have passed(!), but that remained impossible because of some technical problems and namely, simple lack of scanner. Now, with the help of my new friend Epson, which besides being a scanner serves me also as xerox and printer, I am presenting you a fantastic sneak peek into a Tangerine villa of a famouse French decorator Jean-Louis Riccardi, known for his theatrical, luxurious interiors!
p.s. Included in parentheses, there are my translations from Mezzanine magazine. Photographer: Roland Beaufre.
{Initially, it was a small hispano-moresque, stuck to rock house literally merged into stones. After some repairing works, there appeared brightfully decorated kitchen, dining and living rooms.}
{The house embodies the fusion of luxurious Arabic decorative elements and ascetic laconism of Berber traditions. Color rampage and multiplicity of textures and ornaments dispose to meditative reflections} Absolutely agree! I'm so much in love with all these greens, blues, violets and warm sand tones! Saturated green leather armchair and sky-blue forged staircase attract my attention like magnets!
I find myself examining every detail of these spaces again and again, mentally entering each room and dissolving into all these fanciful ornaments, floral and geometrical patterns in mystic color palettes, passing my hand over diverse textiles and unique objects!
{Jean-Louis Riccardi has perfectly united a caleidoscope of different epochs and cultures: local craftsmanship, European antiquarian furniture, Indian textiles and Iranian tiles. In this crosspoint of East and West, the decorator has created a habitation of lonely traveller, passionately infatuated with the history.}
The wall carpet has a calligraphic script in Arabic literally meaning 'Welcome'
{Below: triangles, stars, palm trees and pine cones (a fashionable element in Morocco since XIII century) on ceramics and wooden surfaces. Textiles with traditional Rabat, Fes and Tatouan embroideries and prints, citations from Al-Quran are in perfect harmony with antic European furniture and some modern design elements.}
{Typical Moroccan star lantern hovering under the blueness of the sky-ceiling is a magical accent on the Oriental atmosphere of the house.}
I apologize for there are some images looking like fragments which couldn't be appropriately formed into the whole picture after scanning. I hope, nevertheless, you enjoyed the interiors and found in them some inspiration for yourself.
P.S. You are welcome to accompany me with another sneak peek into a very unusual New York appartment of a celebs makeup artist Charlie Green at my other blog Retro Lounge.
I am so much in love with Petrina Tisnlay's photographic style - evocative, carrying an enigma, so genuine and very heartwarming! Petrina Tisnlay is an internationally known photographer from Sydney shooting for ad campaignes and the world's most high-status lifestyle and leisure magazines such as Vogue Entertaining + Travel, Vogue Living, Martha Stewart Living, Food and Wine, Gourmet, etc. 
Good Saturday Evening, my dears, and almost Morningtime for my US friends;) First of all, thank you for liking my previous post featuring Jean-Lui Riccardi's Tangerine villa; and now, I am excited to present you my latest discovery - a richly decorated van belonging to a fabric artist Robin Brown, the owner of fashion and interiors brand Magnolia Pearl, and her life and business partner John Gray. 
I have been wanting to prepare ratatouille, a famous traditional French sauteed vegetable dish (never tried it before), since I've watched the Ratatouille movie and, finally, on these days, I got my hands on it! 
