The Moroccan garden of the guy behind Yves Saint Laurent’s popular Jardin Majorelle

< figure class=" bb-figure bb-figure-- portrait bb-figure-- customized bb-figure--internal”>< img src =" https://hg-images.condecdn.net/image/AjXlPKnWJ5V/crop/405/f/p.84_kinfolk" data-sizes=" auto" class =" c-image c-image-- lazyload" alt srcset=" https://hg-images.condecdn.net/image/AjXlPKnWJ5V/crop/405/f/p.84_kinfolk 405w, https://hg-images.condecdn.net/image/AjXlPKnWJ5V/crop/810/f/p.84_kinfolk 810w, https://hg-images.condecdn.net/image/AjXlPKnWJ5V/crop/1020/f/p.84_kinfolk 1020w, https://hg-images.condecdn.net/image/AjXlPKnWJ5V/crop/1440/f/p.84_kinfolk 1440w" >< img src=" https://hg-images.condecdn.net/image/AjXlPKnWJ5V/crop/405/f/p.84_kinfolk" class alt > Zoltán Tombor F or Abderrazak Benchaâbane, the plant life of Marrakech is a relief: Plants signal a sanctuary, the presence of life in an otherwise hostile environment. “I feel secured in gardens,” he states. “Outdoors feels a little harmful.”

The sixty-one-year-old garden designer– also a museum owner and perfumer– has dedicated his life to ethnobotany, the research study of plants and individuals who live along with them. “I have actually attempted to bring gardens with a history back to life, to grasp their spirit without betraying their author, despite the fact that gardens are art work that leave the control of their maker,” he states. Benchaâbane’s best-known project is his remediation of the Jardin Majorelle, a cobalt-blue bolt-hole of rare plants in the heart of the Moroccan capital, which he undertook on behalf of the late Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé. He spent a years restoring the garden as it was initially visualized by French orientalist painter Jacques Majorelle in the early 1900s, combing through correspondence, journals and archives to backtrack
its genesis.