Folio

The long read, for the few that earn it.

Where Bearings notes a place in passing, a Folio stops and stays: a close reading of a single house, its coast, its rooms, its table, told in chapters. The same bar as the collection. We don't rate, we select.

Al Moudira on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, a palm-lined path leading to a domed pavilion at golden hour
Folio No. 43

Al Moudira

Luxor · West Bank · Egypt

Luxor is really two towns with a river between them. Al Moudira sits on the quiet side, out among the palm groves and the tombs, a country house built by Zeina Aboukheir from a salvaged old Egypt: fifty-odd domed, frescoed suites, no two the same, with the Valley of the Kings on the doorstep. The case for staying the night, read chapter by chapter.

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