Doors, windows, screens, friezes...

Nice old solid wood panel from Southern Morocco. It was part of a doble-panel door. It shows a charming weathered color and warm patina together with Berber typical incised carved decoration and forge rivets. Very decorative and ideal as a headboard.

Outstanding cedarwood pillar or post from the Jbel Siroua region in southern Morocco. Features a beautiful patina with polychrome and carved decoration very characteristic in the berber group Aït Ouaouazguite’s wooden crafts ,among other, the great wooden chests used by the brides to keep their dowry and other valuables.

Outstanding cedarwood pillar or post from the Jbel Siroua region in southern Morocco. Features a beautiful patina with polychrome and carved decoration very characteristic in the berber group Aït Ouaouazguite’s wooden crafts ,among other, the great wooden chests used by the brides to keep their dowry and other valuables.

A true and amazing piece of modern art! This is the first thing that comes to our minds when we admire this superb Berber old granary ladder made from a single piece od argan tree trunk. These ladders  are used to reachs the highest storage cubicles in the fortified communal barns found in Agadir, the Jbel Siroua region and the Souss valley in Southern Morocco. For centuries, the nomadic Berber tribes of this region built the Agadir pl. Igudar (Berber for wall or battlement) on top of a hill, completely secluded  from the outside except for a single access and where each family or clan would have a small space denominated - bid - with a wooden door and bolt to keep their crop and other valuables safe from burglars and thieves. Once in a while they would also serve as refuges for people when the village was attacked by other rival tribes. A single family lived permanently in the Agadir as guardians while the rest carried a transhumant nomadic life. Nowadays these people have become sedentarized and have built their houses around these once isolated fortresses.

This type of fortified barns is also found in southern Tunisia and some of it served as inspiration to George Lucas in his famed Star Wars saga to recreate the planet Tatooine.

Ladders similar to these are found in the Dogon country in Mali.

This type of fortified barns is also found in southern Tunisia and some of it served as inspiration to George Lucas in his famed Star Wars saga to recreate the planet Tatooine.

Ladders similar to these are found in the Dogon country in Mali.

This type of fortified barns is also found in southern Tunisia and some of it served as inspiration to George Lucas in his famed Star Wars saga to recreate the planet Tatooine.

Ladders similar to these are found in the Dogon country in Mali.

A lovely Moroccan Berber old wooden granary door from the region of the Siroua Mountains. It features a simple yet charming carved decoration made of small circles. Small size.

An awesome museum-worth section of a cedarwood coffered ceiling from the citadel of Salé on the North Atlantic coast of Morocco, dating back to the XVIIIth. It was most likely part of the ceiling of one of the noblest rooms of a palace in the old part of town or of the upper decoration of the main entrance to the house. It shows a truly superb and detailed carving work featuring nine beautiful mihrab-shaped arches supported by amazing intricate columns referred locally to as “elephants”. The rich and tremendously skilled geometrical intertwined foliage decoration (arabesques) transport us to places such as the Alhambra palace in Cordoba (Spain). Pieces of this quality are extremely hard to come by and exceptional by all means. Certainly, an opportunity no to miss.

A great panel or fragment of a Moroccan old cedarwood wooden ceiling from a traditional riad in the old part of the imperial city of Marrakech in Morocco. It features a lovely geometrical carved decoration which makes it a very eye-catching piece. A truly artisan piece of art full of decorative possibilities. From a headboard to a table. You name it but do not let it go!.