| Record ID: |
2963327 |
| Variant Title: |
Architecture, landscape and Islamic art |
| Variant Title: |
House in paradise |
| Variant Title: |
Shangri La |
| Format: |
Regular Print Book |
| Physical description: |
216 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some col.) ; 32 cm. |
| Date acquired: |
May 3, 2013
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| More creator details: |
edited by Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht ; foreword by Deborah Pope ; essays by Linda Komaroff ... [and others] ; organized by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art ; principal photography by Tim Street-Porter. |
| General note: |
Catalog of a traveling exhibition held at seven U.S. locations, Sept. 7, 2012-July 5, 2015. |
| Contents note: |
Shangri La / Tim Street-Porter -- Doris Duke and the Islamic art collecting tradition / Linda Komaroff -- Commissioning on the move: the Cromwells' travels and patronage of "living traditions" in India, Morocco and Iran / Keelan Overton -- Collecting for design: Islamic art at Doris Duke's Shangri La / Sharon Littlefield Tomlinson -- Islamic art: selected objects from Shangri La -- Inventive synthesis: the architecture and design of Shangri La / Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht -- Contemporary artists respond to Shangri La. |
| Contributor: |
Albrecht, Donald.
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| Contributor: |
Komaroff, Linda, 1953-
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| Contributor: |
Mellins, Thomas.
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| Contributor: |
Pope, Deborah.
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| Contributor: |
Street-Porter, Tim.
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| Contributor: |
Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. |
