At Home in Marrakesh with Meryanne Loum-Martin

Join Susanna in Marrakesh, Morocco as she visits renowned hotelier Meryanne Loum-Martin at her stunning property containing both her renowned boutique hotel Jnane Tamsna and her own residential refuge in the heart of Marrakesh’s Palmeraie district. Both places are just seamless steps from one another and resonate with Loum-Martin’s penchant for blending culture, history and design.

Born in Cote d’Ivoire, Loum-Martin worked in Paris as a lawyer before moving to Morocco in 1996. She built the property in 2001, after creating its buildings and outfitting its unique rooms with furniture and objets culled from her extensive travels. Her ethnobotanist American husband fashioned the native gardens and their bounty helps feed the many guests who seek their generous hospitality from all over the world.
The hotel’s interiors are as singularity exotic as the rooms in Loum-Martin's home, both filled with art, textiles and antiques and she and Susanna explore each. You won’t want to miss how Morocco’s only Black female hotelier determinedly brought her vision of creating a destination for world travelers and for her own family, to life.