Majorelle Blue is a clear, intense, fresh shade of deep blue. Marrakech Majorelle Garden 2011

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 Painting, painter. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, France, Nancy in 1901 and later at the A ...

constructed his largest artwork, the

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, and painted the garden walls, fountains, features and villa this very intense shade of blue, for which he

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ed the name ''Majorelle Blue''. He had noticed the colour in Moroccan tiles, in

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es, and around the windows of buildings such as

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s and native

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homes.

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French inventions Shades of blue Architecture in Morocco {{colour-stub

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