This explains why this financial dynasty who work or who have worked in Europe or the Gulf countries, is found embedded in a nice family adventure: the opening of a boutique hotel in one of the most beautiful streets of the Medina , rue du Pacha.
The house dates from the eighteenth century, with strong reminiscences of the seventeenth century, and has long belonged to a famous family of perfumers in Souk el Attarine, the Anoun. Mansion of respectable proportions while retaining a human scale, it had beautiful harmonies, had retained a beautiful appearance and had been inhabited continuously. The houses that we have not abandoned are happy houses , and they release something from their walls. This is probably why was sensitive with Si Hmida Bengacem, and with him, his daughter, in Abu Dhabi where she directs with skill and science investment fund, dreamed of opening a guest house.
Once home discovered it was necessary to revive it, respecting its past, and past choices that were made. For this, was called in the architect who best knows the medina, its codes, its prohibitions, and that is in respect and affiliation of the builders of the past. Zubair Mouhli , of the team ASM, points showing off or show off, but humility coupled with a remarkable talent of “developer”.
The house is quite the same, yet different. Once consolidated the structures, scratched coatings, replaced the paneling, carpeted floors, we kept reception areas, driba and skifa, intervening only to cut by a glass door. It has retained its patio open sky vocation, and its particularity L galleries , probably unfinished by the previous owners. It has also preserved the T structures traditional rooms, merely slip a discreet bathroom or dressing in a sedda which is isolated by a door in the colors of stained glass quite in the style of the place.
The long, narrow room was transformed, today unusable, in convivial dining rooms for breakfast where we will enjoy together large tables. And one is allowed to interfere with happiness on a terrace overlooking Tunis and its most famous monuments, by installing a kiosk that will be, without a doubt, the “truth of the house.”
Once this house built with taste and attention to detail that we had unfortunately forgotten, we asked another lover, a fine heritage connoisseur of the stage. Mohamed Messaoudi has furnished and accessorized with sophistication and creativity that we know, with the beautiful square with the amazing collection of master of the house, ceramics, brass and antique furniture, but also introducing modern touches, and winks who always keep a reference asset. And if kallalines coexist with ceramics inspired by the revolution, and old maps are confronted with pictures of Ben Hamadi.
Saad is in good intelligence and graceful harmony.
Dar Bengacem has four suites and three rooms, a patio and a terrace conducive to cultural and social events, a warm and refined family home, a location in the heart of the aristocratic district of the Medina: a piece of paradise
Alya Hamza
Source: La Presse
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