March 24, 2016 Maana Travel Local design at the Galerie de l’Aimance March 24, 2016 Maana Travel “It all began with the place.” Sophie Benkirane, the founder of La Galerie de l’Aimance, Casablanca’s first concept store, remembers the difficulties she faced when she was looking for a “place with a soul” to open her boutique.