A handful of luxury tents were grouped around a central area covered in rugs and cushions; a laden dinner table was set to one side.
Rooms from £41 (riadbamboo.com) Riad Dar Zaman This 18th-century riad in the old town has been refurbished as a four-room guesthouse with African artworks and soft Berber rugs.
Oriental rugs on parquet floors, french windows to balcony and garden, bedrooms brimful of interest: she collects simple things from long-gone days.
There was a festival atmosphere, but it was more village fete than Glastonbury: folding chairs and Pimm's rather than rugs and cider.
Just a cocktail stick's throw from Ipanema's beachfront, and reached by its own private lift, this three-bedroom penthouse mixes cool Italian marble floors, long white sofas and cowhide rugs with local artwork and 70s furniture.
At lunchtime I was led to a nomad tent down the hill in the garden, with floor-cushion sofas around low ornate tables, thick rugs and lanterns.
From the road it's just a tall stone building but inside there are rugs on the floors, vases of fresh flowers and even a cat who matches the stonework.
It was November and I spent countless freezing hours begging it to go to the toilet in the garden instead of on the rugs.
