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The Tunisian house sits somewhere between sea and sky on the coastal edge of Northern Africa or otherwise nestled in narrow alley or desert sands. It is the simple mud pisé constructions of the outer desert and the bright canvas of potted geraniums and painted doors in the medina.
In whatever form or location it is found, the Tunisian home has been touched by nature, which lends color, shape, and material to its design. Clay, stone, and wrought iron, traditional building materials of the Mediterranean, become sculptural elements of the Tunisian interior.
Tunisian design is an organic blend of African, Arabian, and European aesthetics. Art and artifact reference French, Ottoman, and Andalusian civilization. Colors are warm and vibrant - earthy reds, brilliant blues, golden yellows, and muted olives.
The city home opens up on an elegant salon and furniture that is a mix of modern and classic Mediterranean styles. The eye is drawn to a subdued French baroque armchair, a low-lying Moroccan coffee table, and an Ottoman-style divan upholstered in solid or clean-lined fabrics. Decorative hand-painted ceramics are placed in artful, colorful arrangements on white shelves hung freely on white stucco walls. A large Bedouin klim rug sits at the center of things great and small.
In the desert outlands, sofas are built extensions of stucco walls, stone hard but cushioned with carpets. Woven klims decorate whitewashed walls, and a host of unpretentious objects - a hand-painted seashell, a pair of glazed candlesticks, a blue camel figurine - reveal the delicate and artist soul of the lady of the house.
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The Tunisian home is the Bedouin tent but also the palm shaded villa with inner courtyard. It is the white washed seaside hamlet and the molded mud “moon-hut” at the edge of the desert.
The multi-tiered, barrel vaulted ghorfas of the south have all the appearance of beehives with steps. So seemingly out of this world are the houses of Matmata, George Lucas chose the location to film episodes from his Star Wars. Organic shapes form the windows, doorways, and rooflines of ghorfas and have the pleasing effect of creating aesthetic harmony between the realms of man and nature.
The coastal Tunisian home stand nestled between narrow alleyways in low-key towns overlooking the sea. Glistening white in the brilliant North African sun, it features a wooden door like a family crest – fabulous with its iron studded, patterned, and painted blue façade. Homes in the towns of Sidi Bou Said and Hammamet are known for their cement stucco constructions, but in earlier times, baked brick, stone brick, and ashlar were used to build homes along the Tunisian coast.
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