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Doris Duke's Shangri La : a house in paradise : architecture, landscape and Islamic art / edited by Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht ; foreword by Deborah Pope ; essays by Linda Komaroff ... [et al.] ; organized by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art ; principal photography by Tim Street-Porter.
Publication details: New York : Skira Rizzoli, 2012, ©2012.Description: 216 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 32 cmISBN:- 9780847838950 :
- 0847838951 :
- Shangri La
- House in paradise
- Architecture, landscape and Islamic art
- NA7511.4.H66 D67 2012
Contents:
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.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | NA 7511.4 .H66 D67 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5086649 |
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Catalog of a traveling exhibition held at seven U.S. locations, Sept. 7, 2012-July 5, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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