{"id":10652,"date":"2026-08-10T01:58:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my-moroccan-artisans.com\/?page_id=10652"},"modified":"2026-11-01T00:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:13:17","slug":"project-riad-restoration-fes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my-moroccan-artisans.com\/nl\/projects\/project-riad-restoration-fes\/","title":{"rendered":"Riad Restoration, Fes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"sec dark\">\n  \n  <div class=\"wrap split\">\n    <div class=\"rv\">\n      <p class=\"tag\" style=\"color:var(--saffron)\"><span class=\"dot\"><\/span>The brief<\/p>\n      <h2 style=\"margin-top:18px;color:var(--chalk)\">Scope, timeline and the hard part<\/h2>\n      <p class=\"lede\" style=\"color:var(--pale);margin-top:22px\">Morocco \u2192 delivered on site<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <ul class=\"audit rv\"><li><span class=\"k\">01<\/span><span><b>Scope<\/b><span class=\"d\">Full courtyard: 2,600 sq ft zellige, carved gebs arcade, two cedar doors, brass lighting throughout.<\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"k\">02<\/span><span><b>Timeline<\/b><span class=\"d\">11 months including a 3-month plasterwork phase \u2014 heritage gebs cannot be rushed.<\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"k\">03<\/span><span><b>The hard part<\/b><span class=\"d\">Matching new zellige to surviving 1900s panels; the glaze was reformulated four times.<\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"k\">04<\/span><span><b>Lesson<\/b><span class=\"d\">On restoration, sample against the original in situ, in daylight. Photos lie about historic glazes.<\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\"><div class=\"wrap\">\n  <p class=\"tag\" style=\"color:var(--verdigris)\"><span class=\"dot\"><\/span>The story<\/p>\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top:14px\">How it went<\/h2><p style=\"margin-top:18px;max-width:72ch;color:var(--ink-70)\">The client \u2014 a European family converting the riad to a five-suite guesthouse \u2014 needed the restoration to read as continuity, not renovation. Every craft came from within two kilometres of the site, and the master plasterer who cut the arcade learned the trade from his grandfather in the same quarter.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case study: A 14th-century courtyard house brought back with zellige, gebs and cedar from the same medina that built it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10653,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mma_eyebrow":"","_mma_subtitle":"","_mma_hero_cta":"","_mma_hero_cta_url":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10652","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-moroccan-artisans.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-moroccan-artisans.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-moroccan-artisans.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-moroccan-artisans.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-moroccan-artisans.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10652"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/my-moroccan-artisans.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11108,"href":"https:\/\/my-moroccan-artisans.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10652\/revisions\/11108"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-moroccan-artisans.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-moroccan-artisans.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}