Photo by Eric Boman
Marella Agnelli’s Marrakesh Bedroom
This month’s CREATING A ROOM ™ features the Marrakesh bedroom of the late Marella Agnelli. In decorating this room for herself, Mrs. Agnelli enlisted Alberto Pinto for assistance. A gloriously feminine, pink and white bedroom which seems to mimic the pink and white bougainvillea just outside the door. Wicker, mahogany, wood inlaid with mother of pearl, a tailored bed canopy, and embroidered bed linens collectively transport you to an exotic destination. New, old, high, low, with and without provenance, all marry into one cohesive, restful, and elegant room.
View of the terrace outside the master bedroom.
Creating a Room ™ was inspired by the iconic rooms of our designing past. These rooms are repeatedly referenced by other designers, editors, tastemakers and style mavens. We are constantly asking ourselves WHY? Why these rooms? What is it that draws us back time and again? I believe it is that ineffable quality, the one we call style that eludes us, defies all definitions yet, we know it when we see it. What we refer to as atmosphere, that certain ambience that is the sum of its parts, all of them, large and small, ceiling to floor, absolutely everything within four walls. And, not to forget the air in between.
In the introduction to VOGUE’S BOOK of HOUSES, GARDEN PEOPLE Diana Vreeland proclaimed, “…few things are more fascinating than the opportunity to see how other people live during their private hours…in the rooms they love, and in the gardens they have planted…”
Creating A Room ™ is our new column dedicated to making some of these iconic rooms come alive. How were they furnished? What were they reading, what books were on the shelf? What was the fragrance that greeted visitors? How were they dressed?
These rooms have invited us to revisit them time and again. Why wouldn’t we want to recreate, adapt some for our own? Each month we will source furniture and accessories, provide similar schemes and suggest paint colors and wallpapers. We will take an educated guess at a fragrance, and even take a peak into the closet. Every source mentioned will be linked to makers of furniture and accessories, fabric houses, paint companies and craftspeople. We will try to be as expansive as possible and to give you alternatives. After that, it’s all up to you.
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The Decorating
Moroccan Mirror
1st Dibs
Malawi Occasional Chair
Palecek
Round Inlaid Wood Pedestal Table
Antique and Artisan Gallery
Middleton Pink No. 245
Farrow and Ball
Coste Pink Vase by Archimede Seguso
1st Dibs
Lutry Rock Crystal Ball Lamp
Vaughan Designs
Lorena Bone-Inlay Wall Mirror
One Kings Lane
Faux Bamboo Leather Top Desk
Antique and Artisan Gallery
Desmona Wicker Lounge Chair
Selamat
Loire Canopy Bed
Niermann Weeks
Herringbone Throw
Bloomingdales
Il Papiro Book
Artemest
Classic Rattan Bookcase
Mecox
Crestwood Decorative Pillow
Bloomingdales
Vidas Round Side Table
One Kings Lane
English Etagere
Antique and Artisan Gallery
Drayton Rug
Ballard Design
Side Table
John Rosselli
Bone Inlay Floral Chest
Etsy
Rahi Coral Settee
John Robshaw
Rectangular Tray
Artifacts Trading
Campaign Chest of Drawers
Antique and Artisan Gallery
Bamboo Picture Frame
Saks Fifth Avenue
Sandrine Coverlet
Eastern Accents
Beauvais Embroidered Jewelry Box
Saks Fifth Avenue
Avata Box
John Robshaw
Hackney Bridge Arm Floor Lamp
Circa
Kashmir Paisley Pillow
Hollywood at Home
Fortuny Pillows
David Duncan Antiques
Accent Pillow
Eastern Accents
December Narcissus
Tommy Mitchell Company
Wood and Bone Tall Taboret
Antique and Artisan Gallery
Antoinette Bed
Eastern Accents
Reyes Point Bed
William Sonoma
Gale Console
Madeline Stuart
Georgian Console
Antique and Artisan Gallery
Sheer Window Shades
Etsy
Linen Fabric
C&C Milano
Martinique Bedding
Julia B.
Jete de Fleurs Boudoir
D. Porthault
In the Closet
August crinkled cotton-voile caftan
Net-A-Porter
Split-hem embroidered cotton caftan
Matches Fashion
Striped side slit cotton poplin caftan
Matches Fashion
Sumak kilim slippers
Artemis Design Company
Silk ikat Moss Mule
Artemis Design Company
Wide brass cuff
IBU Movement
Mamta embroidered caftan
IBU Movement
Soledad earring
IBU Movement
The Fragrance
Dries Van Noten “par”
Frederic Malle
Nest “Moroccan Amber”
Bloomingdales
Byredo “Bal D’afrique”
Saks Fifth Avenue
Cire Trudon “Abd El Kader
Saks Fifth Avenue
On the Bookshelf
The World of Federico Forquet: Italian Fashion, Interiors, Gardens
Hamish Bowles
The Interiors and Architecture of Renzo Mongiardino: A Painterly Vision
Martina Mondadori Sartogo
Roomscapes: The Decorative Architecture of Renzo Mongiardino
Renzo Mongiardino
Renzo Mongiardino
Laura Verchere
Marella Agnelli: The Last Swan
Marella Agnelli
Marella Agnelli: Gardens of the Italian Villas
Marella Agnelli
The Agnelli Gardens of Villar Perosa
Marella Agnelli
Edith Wharton’s Italian Gardens
Vivian Russell
Grand Tour: The Worldly Projects of Studio Peregalli
Laura Sartori Rimini
The Gardener’s Garden
Madison Cox
A Tour of Italian Gardens
Judith Chatfield
Visions of Paradise
Marina Schinz
Private Italian Gardens
Paolo Pejrone
Living In Morocco
Barbara & Rene Stoeltie
