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"MARRAKECH SOURCES\nArchitect and Interior Designer Campion A. Platt Uncovers Morocco's Hidden Treasures\nOne of architect Campion A. Platt's favorite sources in Marrakech is Gerard Santolini's gallery, which is in his 11th-century riad, or courtyard house. The owner, left, holds a tagine.\nThe leather babouches, or slippers, and the early-19th-century necklace are among the housewares, clothing and jewelry offered. The tribal rug is Saharan.\n\"It's a great place to find furniture from Africa, as well as Moroccan art, rugs and lamps,\" says Platt. Assorted storage boxes, pottery dishes and olive jars fill a corner.\nOwner Mustapha Blaoui and Platt examine a rug made of doom palm fronds in the gallery.\nCopper and brass Moroccan lamps hang from the ceiling.\n\"She's the most industrious retailer,\" Platt says of Meryanne Loum-Martin. Philippe Deltour's Prayer 1, 2004, is on the wall. Silk shawls are draped on the wrought iron daybeds she designed.\nThe appointment-only showroom on the rue Ben Salah, in the medina, has embroidered fabrics, including tablecloths, scarves, pareus and pillow shams.\n\"If Brigitte didn't do mostly custom work, I would have bought everything she had, dropped it in a big suitcase and brought it all back to New York,\" says the architect.\nOwners Alessandra Lippini and Fabrizio Bizzarri show Platt a rope hammock on the rooftop terrace of their adobe riad, which houses the showroom and gallery.\nNiches displaying African artifacts and masks line a wall in the first-floor salon. The owners designed the leather-topped table with a base of aluminum letters.\n\"Lucien has choice antiques and wall textiles,\" says Platt.\nLarger pieces are exhibited in the courtyard garden. The wood cylinder was used to press olives.\nFurniture from Africa and Asia, and Moroccan crafts and silverware fill the first floor of Fr\u00E9d\u00E9rique and Norbert Birkemeyer's three-story gallery on the rue de la Libert\u00E9 in Gu\u00E9liz.\nAn artist uses a hammer and awl to create filigree on maillechort, a copper, zinc and nickel alloy. \"You actually get to see the artisans at work,\" notes Platt.\nDecorative objects, including canisters and trays, rest on the shelves. The wood pieces are covered with the maillechort, which is \"polished to a brilliant shine,\" says Platt.\nThe architect inspects a Moroccan cane at the shop, which is located in the Amanjena hotel. Fabrics, handbags and a pottery vase are on the table. At rear are Saharan tent pegs.\n1 Tresor des Nomades, 144 rue de Bab Doukkala, Medina; 212-44-38-52-40. Moroccan furniture, crafts, rugs, china and light fixtures\n\n 2 Dar Al Charij, 111 Derb Al Qadi, Azbezt; 212-44-38-62-79. Islamic antiques, Berber jewelry, trunks, cooking vessels and rugs\n\n 3 Brigitte Perkins, 212-44-37-74-16. By appointment. Embroidered linen and silk fabrics\n\n 4 Ministero del Gusto, 22 Derb Azouz El Mouassine, 212-44-42-64-55. Wood and leather furniture and African masks and artifacts\n\n 5 Ryad Tamsna, Riad Zitoun Jdid, 23 Derbe Zanka Daika, Medina, 212-44-38-52-72; www.tamsna.com. Furniture and art\n\n 6 Galerie Tadghart, Place de la Libert\u00E9, Gu\u00E9liz, 212-44-43-22-58; Architectural salvage and textiles\n\n 7 Darkoum, 5 rue de la Libert\u00E9, Gu\u00E9liz, 212-44-44-67-39; www.ilove-marrakesh.com/darkoum. Furniture, objets d'art and silver\n\n 8 TM Design, rue El Irak, Q.I., M\u00E9nara, 212-44-49-65-93; www.tmdesignmarrakech.com. Maillechort accessories and light fixtures\n\n 9 Amanjena Boutique, route de Ouarzazate, 212-44-40-33-53. Folk art, decorative objects and fabrics"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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