Jacques Majorelle is a painter and very famous decorator of Nancy, it was born in 1888. Invited by the Lyautey General in Marrakesh in 1917 to look after its tuberculosis, it fell in love with the town of Marrakesh and it settled in its small house a few years later. By the same occasion, it created its workshop in this small house where it painted engravings while taking as a starting point the everyday life of the Morrocan women. It died there in 1962.
Fallen in the lapse of memory after death from Jacques Majorelle, the place is repurchased by Yves SAINT LAURENT who restored it at the beginning of the Sixties. And the Garden of Majorelle became an Islamic museum composed of Moroccan antiquities.