Missoni has dressed the Pool Garden of Mandarin Oriental, Marrakech in its zigzags, for at least a year. The two houses presented the Missoni Resort Club on 5 November, in a release from Mandarin Oriental. It is Missoni’s first Resort Club in Morocco. The brands also call it “the first luxury pool takeover of its kind in the region”. The setting is a resort of 58 private pool villas and seven suites, on 20 hectares of gardens and olive groves close to the centre of Marrakech. Villa guests have the club to hand. Everyone else needs a Pool Day Pass.
Zigzag parasols, daybeds and towels in navy, turquoise and green
The change is in the textiles. Zigzag parasols shade the water, cushions in the house motif dress the daybeds and the pool towels carry it too. The palette is navy, turquoise, cream and vivid green. There are Missoni-inspired playing cards by the pool, and the kitchen joins in with “Missoni-colored ice lollies, candy floss and popcorn”. Alberto Caliri, Missoni’s creative director, explains the choice of place in one line: “Mandarin Oriental, Marrakech is one of those rare places where color already feels architectural.” The garden did the rest. “Our zigzags and colors enter into a genuine dialogue with the landscape,” he says.
Villa guests and a Pool Day Pass: who can use it, and until when
The club is part of a stay in any of the private pool villas. There is also a Pool Day Pass, “subject to availability and advance reservation”. The timing follows the season. Marrakech is entering its months of winter sun, and the Pool Garden will stay in Missoni for at least one year, which takes it to November 2027 at the earliest. For Alain-Thomas Brière, the resort’s general manager, the Pool Garden “offered an exceptional setting in which to bring our two worlds together”. His closing line is plainer. “We cannot wait for our guests and the Marrakech community to discover it.”
Sixty-five keys on 20 hectares, and a house founded in 1953
Mandarin Oriental, Marrakech counts 58 villas, each with its own pool, and seven suites, 65 keys in all among the gardens and the olive trees. It also has M.O Studio, its cultural space. MF Fashion, which reported the club in Italian on 4 November, adds a spa of 1,800 square metres and a design by Gilles & Boissier that draws on Amazigh and Arab-Andalusian architecture. Missoni was founded in 1953. The release describes a house known for its textiles that has moved into interiors and lifestyle projects, and the Resort Club takes those textiles outdoors, to the water. Mandarin Oriental has its own residential side as well. Its collection of private homes numbered 43 houses in 18 destinations when we wrote about it in October.
The Luxury.it perspective
What stands out is the length. Missoni will dress the Pool Garden for at least a year, through a full winter-sun season and the summer after it, so the zigzags are part of the resort and not a weekend event. The Pool Day Pass matters too. It opens the garden to visitors who are not staying in a villa, with booking ahead. For a winter week in Marrakech, reserve the pass early, since the release makes it subject to availability.
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