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Berbernest

The Rosette

Fassi atelier · The traditional construction · Fez

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Original Berbernest composition

black with a mount · Fez · The traditional construction

Prodigi Classic Black frame corner photograph

Black · actual frame finishProdigi’s product photograph. Flat 20 mm face, 22 mm depth, with a snow-white mount.

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A Marrakech salon
The Rosette

About this composition

Seen from directly above, a zellij field radiates outward from one eight-pointed star through ring after ring of cut tile. Nothing repeats on a square grid; it grows. This is the shape the whole visual language of the country is built from, and it is the shape on the front of this site.

Green, lapis, ochre, white

A living tradition

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This comes from a craft people still practise. It is nobody's private property and it is not nobody's work either: it was cut, over centuries, by maâlems whose names were rarely recorded — a trade passed from master to apprentice rather than written down. We say so rather than call it anonymous.

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