You can walk around inside the movie in your head, play the bogey character you never were, all against an all-too-willing, all-too-genuine backdrop. ordinarily just about the last thing in the world i d be interested in doing is antiquing. but buried in the network of twisting narrow streets of the old city is boutique majid. owned and operated and personally curated by this man, abdelmajid rais el fenni. hello. abdelmajid: how are you? anthony: and he s one interesting guy. thank you. abdelmajid: come on in. anthony: when he was a little kid back in the 60s, majid left his hometown of fez and came here where he d earn a few dirham a night emptying ashtrays at the wild and extravagant parties being thrown here by wealthy ex-pats. he saw what these people would buy for themselves and how they decorate their homes and started to look around for himself, scoring, then reselling art and antiques.
Emptying ashtrays at wild parties being thrown here by wealthy ex-pats. he saw what people would buy for themselves, how they decorate their homes and he started to look around for himself, scoring, then reselling art and antiques. wow. it became something of an obsession. now his artifacts from morocco, and all across north africa, are bought by collectors all over the world. carpets, antiques, jewelry and old doors. wow, these are incredibly beautiful. tell me about that. amber, coral, shells. these used to be currency. these shells. how old is this? early 20s. the amber is millions of years old. how much are you selling it for? by weight. quite heavy piece this one, 429 grams. so it comes like 42,000
The medina is just what you want it to be. the ancient world residing just next to and around the new one. you can walk around inside the movie in your head, play the bogey character you never were, all against an all-too-willing, all-too-genuine backdrop. ordinarily just about the last thing in the world i d be interested in doing is antiquing. but buried in the network of twisting narrow streets of the old city is boutique majid. owned and operated and personally curated by this man, abdelmajid rais el fenni. hello. abdelmajid: how are you? anthony: and he s one interesting guy. thank you. abdelmajid: come on in. anthony: when he was a little kid back in the 60s, majid left his hometown of fez and came here where he d earn a few dirham a night emptying ashtrays at the wild and extravagant parties being thrown here by wealthy ex-pats. he saw what these people would buy for themselves and how they
Boutique majid, and he s one interesting guy. thank you. come in. when he was a little kid back in the 60s, majid left his hometown of fez and came here where he would earn money emptying ashtrays at wild parties being thrown here by wealthy ex-pats. he saw what people would buy for themselves, how they decorate their homes and he started to look around for himself, scoring, then reselling art and antiques. wow. it became something of an obsession. now his artifacts from morocco, and north africa, are bought by collectors all over the world.
Antiquing, but buried in the network of twisting narrow streets of the old city is boutique majid, and he s one interesting guy. thank you. come in. when he was a little kid back in the 60s, majid left his hometown of fez and came here where he would earn money emptying ashtrays at wild parties being thrown here by wealthy ex-pats. he saw what people would buy for themselves, how they decorate their homes and he started to look around for himself, scoring, then reselling art and antiques. wow. it became something of an obsession. now his artifacts from morocco, and north africa, are bought by collectors all over the world. carpet, antiques,