Meryanne Loum-Martin
Meryanne Loum-Martin won the prestigious Prix des Secrétaires de la Conférence and represented Paris Bar in International Francophone Debate competitions. She discovered Morocco in 1985, and was soon torn between her career as a Parisian lawyer and her original passion for architecture and design that Marrakech instantly reawoke. In 1989 she opened in the Marrakech Palmeraie her first hospitality enterprise, Dar Tamsna, which won the 2002 Harpers and Queen award for the Best Private Villa in the world. Featured in 57 magazines, including Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, French Vogue, Italian Vogue, British Vogue, German Vogue, Condé Nast Traveller,Elle Décor, Coté Sud, it is established as the pioneering reference of boutique hospitality in Marrakech. In 1999 she opened an innovative cultural concept store, Ryad Tamsna, in the Medina. In 2001, it had the front cover of Departures with the caption: The Essence of Chic. In 2001 she created Jnane Tamsna, a cultural boutique hotel that supports The Global Diversity Foundation: and a long story in the New York Times followed. From hospitality to design, from green development to publications, her interests are as diverse as her countries of origin.
She sits on the Board of the Marrakech Biennale and of The Observatoire de la Palmeraie, the conservation arm of the Fondation Mohammed VI pour la Protection de l'Environnement.
She sits on the Board of the Marrakech Biennale and of The Observatoire de la Palmeraie, the conservation arm of the Fondation Mohammed VI pour la Protection de l'Environnement.
