Inside Tangier: House & Gardens

(Hardback)

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A white-walled city perched between Morocco and Europe, Tangier was long a haven for the literary and artistic avant-garde - and black sheep - of Europe and America. Now a new generation of residents are blending color, pattern, and taste to create an interior aesthetic all their own. Inside Tangier explores a selection of these exceptional properties and their eccentric inhabitants - from antiques dealer and collector Gordon Watson and cook and artist Soufian Lezaar to the late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and antiques dealer Christopher Gibbs - providing rare insights into the sometimes bohemian, sometimes extravagant, but always stylish "Tangerine" lifestyle.

Reviews

"An enthralling new book looks inside the most stylish homes of Tangier."--VOGUE.com
"Baldissera, a renowned interior designer and Tangier transplant, takes us on a tour of the most beautiful homes in this Moroccan city in his lavish and delicious book."--Forbes.com
"It's the Moroccan city that has long attracted a bohemian class of folk from Europe and America. . . . This volume looks at some of the city's more recent inhabitants. . . . Readers learn fast while the city remains alluring."--Milieu
"The homes, gardens, and rooms documented are mouthwateringly beautiful. . . . All make you desperate to be friends with these chic designers, and all convince you that the joy many get just from walking the streets of Tangier is a blissful ignorance as they'll rarely get to see the kaleidoscopic wonders arrayed being the often simple street doors."--The Daily Beast

Author Bio

Nicol Castellini Baldissera is the great-grandson of renowned Italian architect Piero Portaluppi and an accomplished architect and interior designer in his own right. Based in London, he has had a home in Tangier for over a decade.

Photographer Guido Taroni has collaborated with some of the most important fashion houses and contributed to leading fashion and interior design magazines. Taroni's first book The Interiors and Architecture of Renzo Mongiardino: A Painterly Vision was published in 2017 by Rizzoli. He lives in Milan.