Le Jardin des Biehn

First La Maison Biehn in Provence - now Le Jardin des Biehn in Fez. Catherine and Michel Biehn lovingly restored the summer palace of a Moroccan Pasha in the heart of the old Medina of Fez. Their boutique hotel, an authentic riad set in a large Andalusian garden, welcomes you with nine suites, a restaurant, a hammam and spa, a sophrology centre, and a gallery space where Michel Biehn displays his collections of antique textiles and costumes.

After 30 years spent scouring the globe for rare and exquisite objects, antiques collector Michel Biehn retreated to Fez’s ancient medina to open a small hotel in a restored riad that once served as a pasha’s summer palace. The result: the highly curated Le Jardin des Biehn (doubles from $140 to $200), whose nine guest rooms are an intoxicating whirl of textures and patterns. A crimson armoire from Sichuan is displayed near a concubine’s chair from Beijing; a wall-size Uzbek tapestry sets off an 18th-century mirror from Persia. Tying it all together are Moorish architectural details, including a courtyard framed by Moghul archways, walls overlaid with mosaic tiles, and a garden that provides many of the ingredients for the hotel’s Fez Café. Hicham, one of the chefs, moonlights as a maker of leather babouches (from $30), crafting them to order in hues ranging from ocher to pale blue. Guests are also welcome to peruse the Islamic textiles (from $180) in Biehn’s on-site gallery—where, for a price, you can begin a collection of your own.