Paint + Pattern Where design & creativity collide

It’s been a couple of weeks since these posts of Maryam’s My Marrakech office showing our Royal Design Studio Moroccan collection stencils appeared on her blog and also on the great Decor8-right at the same time that our Royal Design ...

I never shared the stair riser project that our first group did at Peacock Pavilions last May. My bad! This first set of “themed” stenciled stair risers is what inspired the most recent round. Those, in turn, were inspired by this blog post, ...

It’s amazing how a little design idea can snowball into something bigger, especially in one’s own head. Maryam had suggested a stenciled stair riser project similar to the one that we did last May in the 3 bedroom quest house ...

I’m back and ready to share some more Marrakech experiences from our recent painting project at Peacock Pavilions. I want to share my absolute favorite project from the trip-and I loved creating them all! This was my favorite not only ...

I’m obsessed with repetitive pattern. I am particularly fond of tile patterns. I have a MAJOR THING for order and symmetry. I am particularly captivated by the Zellij tile patterns that are literally everywhere in Morocco, with their underlying meaning of ...

The ten painters arrived in Marrakech with a song in our hearts and brushes in our suitcases. We were on a mission to make magical patterns appear at Peacock Pavilions under the watchful eyes of this special woman. We planned our strategy ...

I am leaving for Marrakech this Friday! EEK! I am SO excited and SO stressed with SO many things to do before I go I can’t stop capitalizing my words! OK, calm down. Breath. Breath again. That’s better. After exchanging ...

All aboard/that pla-aa-aane! Wow! I had such a hard time figuring out where to begin to share all the exciting sights and happenings on my trip to Barcelona/Marrakech/Madrid that a whole week has already gone by since my return. I’ll start ...

Excuse me?! No, not burp, BLURB! When I was presenting at the Meeting of the Masters last October, I saw a gorgeous, printed portfolio in the booth of a very talented artist, Carol Pascale. I’m like, “How did you afford ...

I am not one to gloat. At least not very much. It’s very hard to write this though without a smile on my lips, a song in my heart and the phrase “neener, neener, neener” running through my mind. Does ...