Set Decorators

Here is how this works in practice. Our team supplies set decorators who dress the worlds production designers and art directors create on Moroccan shoots. We brief decorators on the resources at hand: the textile, ceramic, metalwork and furniture souks of Marrakech and Fez, the dressing stores built up around the Ouarzazate studios, and Moroccan crews skilled in dressing large-scale period sets.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. On the ground, Set decorators we place source and place furnishings and dressing, run scene matching with the script supervisor, manage swing gangs and on-set dressers, and set up with props so action and dressing read as one environment. They work to the production designer's brief across registers from today's interiors to Roman, biblical and medieval period work, and they plan for desert conditions on exterior dressing. Most are fluent in French and Arabic alongside English, which makes sourcing and crew oversight efficient.

Here is how this works in practice. Morocco's set-decoration craft draws on a living material culture — the carpets, lanterns, ceramics, carved wood and textiles of the Marrakech and Fez souks — that gives decorators real period and regional dressing close at hand. Decades of historical epics, from 'Kingdom of Heaven' to 'Game of Thrones', have built dressing inventories and crews around the Ouarzazate studios skilled in large-scale period work. The ISMAC in Rabat trains film pros across the art department.

Here is how the picture comes together. On the ground, Set-decoration work runs under CCM oversight. With foreign shoots engaging a CCM-licensed local firm. The set decorators we place set up ATA Carnet imports of pro dressing through Moroccan Customs (the ADII) and respect the heritage rules that govern dressing on UNESCO locations such as the Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou and the medinas of Marrakech and Fez.