Umberto Pasti is a critically acclaimed Italian writer and horticulturalist. Ngoc Minh Ngo is a celebrated photographer and the author of Bringing Nature Home, In Bloom, and most recently in collaboration with Pasti Eden Revisted about the idyllic garden around Pasti s home in Morocco. Ngoc's images have been published in publications such as T Magazine.
"Writer Umberto Pasti’s house and garden in Tangier is a testament
to living with history. The beautiful photographs reveal a
museum-worthy collection of Moroccan artworks, furniture, textiles
and objects. Imagine a villa and garden through a curator’s
eye." —Mansion Global
"To enter into Umberto Pasti’s world in Tangier is to be
transported to paradise. The gardens are lush and green, full of
the most extraordinary plants and an occasional slap of violent
colour, whilst the house is filled with a curated collection of
16th century Andalusian tiles, ancient Moroccan textiles, sea
bleached whale bones an occasional Roman bottom and disparate
wonderful paintings and drawings, all assembled with frankly
exquisite taste. Every time I visit it feels like a voyage of
discovery. Lucky me." —Jasper Conran, British designer
"If there is one book to own on the passion for collecting and
interiors, this is the one to have." —Madison Cox, garden
designer and president of the Fondation Jardin Majorelle
"I wish this were my house for my lifetime. I would read this book
in this pleasure dome, in a trance, smoking. Both the prose and the
pictures are transporting. These tales from the Araby a delight we
wish would continue without end." —Isabel Bannerman, garden
designer, writer, and photographer.
"The singularity of Pasti’s vision, which spills over into Tebarek
Allah’s garden, as well as those he designs for clients, has earned
him the name “the flower Christian” among his neighbors. But, as he
writes in the new book “The House of a Lifetime” (Rizzoli) — an
encyclopedic account of Tebarek Allah’s many lives and the
collections housed within it, with images by the photographer Ngoc
Minh Ngo — he could just as readily be called el nasrani di el
zuwak or “the painted wood Christian,” so ardent is his devotion to
preserving the work of the Jbala tribes. Yet all his pieces,
whether a painted Berber shelf or a fragment of a Roman fresco, are
precious in their own way and each has its own tale to add to
Tebarek Allah’s, itself a fascinating footnote in the long and
complex history of Tangier." —THE NEW YORK TIMES
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