Villa Majorelle demonstrates the dramatic emotive effects of color and design. With the sun radiating off piercing blue walls, it is impossible to walk through the villa’s garden without feeling happy. The shade of blue is even named bleu majorelle after Jacques Majorelle, the painter who designed and built the property in French colonial days.
More recently it belonged to the French couturier Yves St Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bourgé, whose collection of North African textiles is in the Islamic Art Museum of Marrakech, housed in the main building.