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In a corner of Marrakech’s medina, Bernard-Henri Lévy has restored and expanded the Palais de la Zahia—a place to retreat to with his wife, Arielle Dombasle, while communing with the riad’s storied past

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In a corner of Marrakech’s medina, Bernard-Henri Lévy has restored and expanded the Palais de la Zahia—a place to retreat to with his wife, Arielle Dombasle, while communing with the riad’s storied past

A reader (thanks Natalie!) wrote tipping me off to this stunning Moroccan home published in the September issue of the Wall Street Journal magazine and I’m so pleased she did. I enjoyed my winter trip to Marrakech so much that I’ve already booked a return trip this December. Photographed by the brilliant Stephen Kent Johnson (love […]

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Actress Arielle Dombasle is photographed for Vanity Fair Magazine on March 16, 2002 at Bernard-Henri Levy's eighteenth century palace in Marrakech, Morocco. PUBLISHED

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In a corner of Marrakech’s medina, Bernard-Henri Lévy has restored and expanded the Palais de la Zahia—a place to retreat to with his wife, Arielle Dombasle, while communing with the riad’s storied past

Sitting area in Palais de la Zahir, Talitha Getty's room

Desk and sitting area in Talitha Getty's bedroom in Palais de la Zahia in Marrakech

Talitha Getty wearing a turban and kaftan in her living room in Marrakesh, Morocco Vogue Jan 1970 © Patrick Lichfield

The couple’s hedonistic days and nights at La Zahia were summed up in a now-famous image taken by Patrick Lichfield for Vogue in 1969, in which Talitha, dressed in an embroidered djellaba, harem pants and white go-go boots, lounges before Paul on the darkening roof terrace. (Two years later she died of a heroin overdose in their Rome apartment, after which Getty sold the Marrakech house.)

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