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Majorelle Blue is a clear, intense, fresh shade of deep blue.
In 1924, the French artist
In 1924, the French artist Jacques Majorelle
Jacques Majorelle (7 March 1886 – 14 October 1962), son of the celebrated Art Nouveau furniture designer Louis Majorelle, was a French painter. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy in 1901 and later at the Académie Julian in Pa ...
constructed his largest artwork, the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech, Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria t ...
, and painted the garden walls, fountains, features and villa this very intense shade of blue, for which he trademark
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ed the name ''Majorelle Blue''. He had noticed the colour in Moroccan tiles, in Berber burnouses, and around the windows of buildings such as kasbah
A kasbah (, also ; ar, قَـصَـبَـة, qaṣaba, lit=fortress, , Maghrebi Arabic: ), also spelled qasba, qasaba, or casbah, is a fortress, most commonly the citadel or fortified quarter of a city. It is also equivalent to the term ''alca ...
s and native adobe homes.
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References
French inventions Shades of blue Architecture in Morocco {{colour-stub