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Date palms beside a still pool between dunes of sand, saffron and rust, with a small mud-brick house and dome and a low red sun.
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Patchwork Medina

Oasis

No. 9 of 50 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeDate palms beside a still pool between dunes of sand, saffron and rust, with a small mud-brick house and dome and a low red sun.

What it meansOases fed by springs and wells made desert travel possible; their date palms gave food, shade, timber and fibre.

Where it worksWarm and calm, it suits a living room or a sunny hallway.

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A tall grove of date palms in olive and teal fabrics rising over pale dunes on a cool morning, with a small domed house beyond.Palm GroveNo. 10
Dunes in indigo and teal under a crescent and scattered stars, palms in dark fabric and a pool holding the night sky.Desert MoonNo. 11
Bands of dunes in sand, saffron and rust under a large sun, with nothing else in view.DunesNo. 12
A single large ribbed dome in alternating turquoise and teal fabrics over a drum of arched windows and an arcade, between two cypresses.The DomeNo. 13
A broad dome in indigo and turquoise at night, its arcade glowing mustard below and stars marked across the dark sky.Blue DomeNo. 14
A tall onion dome striped in rust and saffron fabrics against a pale turquoise sky, with a sun on one side.Onion DomeNo. 15
A pointed dome in olive and oxblood under a dusk sky of rust and saffron bands, flanked by dark cypresses.Dome at DuskNo. 16
A quilt-like grid of rounded arches, each a different fabric set on its own oatmeal or sand patch, with one arch opening onto a night sky and a crescent.ArchesNo. 17

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