The Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech is a fashion museum on Rue Yves Saint Laurent, next to the Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech, Morocco. Studio KO designed it for Pierre Bergé, and it opened in 2017, just over a month after his death.
The building has about 43,100 square feet (4,000 square meters) of floor area. It includes a permanent gallery of about 4,300 square feet (400 square meters) showing 50 couture creations, a temporary exhibition space, a research library of more than 6,000 volumes, an auditorium, a bookstore, a 75-seat terrace cafe,.
The facade is terracotta brickwork laid to suggest woven fabric. Curved and angular volumes of terrazzo shape the exterior, and the interior uses glazed bricks, zellige tiles, granite, laurel and oak. The white entrance hall walls were inspired by a jacket lining.
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