Wafl Design

Marrakesh


Bold, colourful and tongue in cheek: Wafl's Belgian-designed pop-art illustrations are part of a new art vanguard in Marrakesh that's eschewing traditional Moroccan design tropes. There are kitsch homewares, such as 'Marrakesh Starbucks' mugs, but it's the clever illustrations that are most striking, such as a camel cocking a leg on a palm tree and Andy Warhol’s Campbell Soup tin advertising harira.


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