HAUTE HISTORY

Villa Mabrouka, the last private home of Yves Saint Laurent in Tangier, Morocco, is now an intimate hotel evoking 1930s charm

By Coco Marett

TRAVEL For British designer Jasper Conran, chancing upon Villa Mabrouka was love at first sight. “I will never forget that first sensation of coming off the narrow Tangier streets and into the villa’s green and shady courtyard, full of banana and palm trees,” he says, “before emerging into an oasis of big, sweeping lawns and an incredible garden looking out to sea, filled with hollyhocks, nasturtiums, roses, agapanthus, bougainvillea, jasmine and orange blossom, as well as ancient pavilions.” When Tatler caught up with Conran over the phone, he was sitting on a terrace looking over those exact gardens—only this time, he’s the owner of the property, which he has spent four years transforming into a charming 12-suite hotel with views of the Strait of Gibraltar and the North Atlantic. The…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2023

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