Continuing our celebration of fifteen years of rooms we love, we are revisiting a space that celebrates the art of transportive interiors: the Tangier Tent, created for the 2025 FLOWER Magazine Showhouse in Nashville, Tennessee.
 

The inspiration for this room begins with Villa Mabrouka, the legendary Tangier home of Yves Saint Laurent. Following a visit to Villa Mabrouka in the summer of 2025, I wanted to capture that same sense of romance and escape in my showhouse space.

Our muse is Yves Saint Laurent himself, whose love of Morocco forever changed his creative perspective. He understood that color, pattern, and craftsmanship could transport us, and that the most memorable interiors evoke both a sense of place and a sense of imagination.

The entire room is enveloped in a custom Brunschwig & Fils stripe, with the fabric extending across the walls and ceiling to create the feeling of a tent. By wrapping the room in one continuous textile and adding draped openings, the architecture itself seems to disappear, leaving behind an immersive environment that feels intimate, layered, and wonderfully unexpected.

Every piece of furniture was selected from our collection with Chaddock, whose craftsmanship and timeless forms provided the perfect foundation for the room. Floor lamps from from our collection with Hudson Valley Lighting punctuated the space, bringing both form and function. 

One of my favorite aspects of this project is that we were actually assigned two rooms. In addition to the salon, we transformed the adjoining bar into a natural extension of the space by lacquering it in the same emerald green as the tented stripes. Decorative painter Joseph Steiert completed the room with hand-painted Mughal-inspired motifs drawn directly from Villa Mabrouka, allowing the two spaces to flow together as one immersive experience.
 

The Tangier Tent is a reminder that great design has the power to transport us. With the right combination of color, pattern, craftsmanship, and imagination, a room can become more than a destination — it can become an experience.