Private Tour at Stella Cadente in Marrakech

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24/12/2022
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Private visit to Stella Cadente in Marrakech © Nicolas Mathéus

The shooting star Stella Cadente never disappears for long. After living for several years in Casablanca, the designer has just moved to Marrakech where she shines again.

Iris Bennet

Alternatively fashion stylist, jewelry designer and artistic director, Stella Cadente has been making headlines in recent years in decoration. With her partner Florian Claudel, she has designed the scenography of many hotels and restaurants around the world where she has sprinkled her half-baroque, half-bohemian style. The stylist also likes to work gold in small touches and associate it with incredible strong color palettes. In her new house near Marrakech, an architectural curiosity built in the 1970s, she discovered country life for the first time. "I realize here all my dreams of life in the open air with dogs, an orchard, a vegetable garden and space to receive my four children, who remained in Paris", she says.

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Inspired by turquoise

Private visit to Stella Cadente in Marrakech

Stella Cadente has just opened a new showroom in the Gueliz district where she presents ready-to-wear, bags, jewelery and decorative accessories – "I wanted to reconnect with the fundamentals of my brand,” she says. If her shop in town is displayed in the radiant range of oranges, it is turquoise that she has chosen for her new home. A color inspired by his funny bean-shaped swimming pool. Gathered during his Moroccan wanderings, rattan furniture and straw suspensions have invaded the terrace and garden. No matter how simple they are, lacquering them in endless blues and stacking them up, the effect is spectacular.

Inside, vintage furniture sourced in Paris and Moroccan ceramics have naturally found their place. Each room is staged as in the theater with ready-to-wear fabrics diverted into curtains, feather decorations (the stylist has designed costumes for the Moulin-Rouge) or pretty series of objects. With her head in the stars but her feet firmly anchored in the land of Morocco, Stella Cadente seems firmly determined to take root in Marrakech.

In Moroccan soil

“We came to settle in Marrakech to be closer to the craftsmen. Here, I discovered an art of living between city and countryside that I really like,” says Stella Cadente.

The turquoise hour

“It is in the evening that we most enjoy the terrace which overlooks the orchards and offers a sublime view of the Atlas. I bought all the straw furniture and pendant lights from the roadside, then painted them in a range of different blues. »

Moroccan hacienda

“I immediately liked the atypical style of this house from the 70s,” says Stella. Its quirky floor plan and numerous stairways hold some lovely surprises, multiplying the viewpoints over the landscape. We live all day in the shade, on the terrace furnished with rattan chairs. »

Sacred Fire

“The long living room like a corridor was not easy to furnish. I imagined this blue wall to focus attention on this amazing oriental fireplace. The vaulted ceiling of this room is exceptional. » Leather sofas by Didier Gomez (Cinna), metal and glass coffee table (Maison Nicole), carpet (Soufiane Zarib) and leaf wall light (Stella Cadente).

Aquamarine

“The Scandinavian table and chairs from the 1940s, brought back from Casablanca, were made for this house in the 1970s.” Golden palm tree and carpet (Soufiane Zarib, Marrakech). Ceramics (Maison Nicole). Photo by Guy Bourdin. Ceramic dog (Theodore MK).

Silk Night

“It's a printed silk, from my old fashion collections, which I diverted into cushions and curtains for my bedroom. It reproduces exactly the colors of the superb enamelled terracotta floor of the room. » Above the headboard, laurel branches in gilded brass (Stella Cadente). In the glazed niche, mottled metal chandelier.

Game of niches

“I simply repainted the trumeau of the corner fireplace and the frieze of the ceiling in almond green. This piece is the perfect setting for my collection of Jean Lurçat tapestries that I have been collecting with passion for several years. » American table and armchair from the 1930s. Mottled wall lamps. Wall jewel (Stella Cadente).