Religious Experience
Part of a mosque complex, Caitlin and Samuel Dowe-Sandes's 18th-century house in Marrakech gets a heavenly new look
The chairs were found in a souk, and the cushion fabric is by Waverly; the giclée print on the mantel, Pearl Diver #1, is by Roger Sandes, Samuel Dowe-Sandes's father.
If you get an invitation to visit Caitlin Dowe-Sandes and her husband, Samuel, in Marrakech, leave the travel alarm at home. Thanks to the sound system of the mosque next door, the adhan, or call to prayer sung by a muezzin, reverberates through their house's gleaming white rooms and the slumbering neighborhood of Sidi Ben Slimane just before dawn. But the expat Americans welcome the interruption. "Whoever is on morning duty has a beautiful voice," Caitlin says of the melodious exhortation, one of five broadcast daily from the city's dozens of minarets. "We lucked out on that front."
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