Research Catalog

Title

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 [and others] ; organized by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art ; principal photography by Tim Street-Porter.

Publication

New York : Skira Rizzoli, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Mellins, Thomas.
• Albrecht, Donald.
• Pope, Deborah.
• Komaroff, Linda, 1953-
• Street-Porter, Tim.
• Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.

Description

216 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 32 cm

Alternative Title

• Shangri La
• House in paradise
• Architecture, landscape and Islamic art

Subjects

• Islamic architecture > Influence > Exhibitions
• Duke, Doris, 1912-1993 > Homes and haunts > Hawaii > Honolulu > Exhibitions
• Art > Private collections > Hawaii > Honolulu > Exhibitions
• Duke, Doris, 1912-1993 > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Islamic art > Exhibitions

Note

• Catalog of a traveling exhibition held at seven U.S. locations, Sept. 7, 2012-July 5, 2015.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN

• 9780847838950
• 0847838951

LCCN

2012938804

OCLC

• ocn783166340
• 783166340
• SCSB-5657666

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries