The painter Jacques Majorelle had lived in Marrakech for more than 40 years until his death in 1962.
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For elegance, it would be hard to beat Majorelle's orchid desk from 1903.
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Louis Majorelle, the Ecole's vice-president, made sure that the servants' quarters at his own lopsidedly beautiful Villa Jika had their share of decorative ceramics.